Choose the photos (the file picker also offers your camera on mobile), optionally check "Enhance for text" for a grayscale and contrast boost, then click Scan to PDF.
Document Scanner (to PDF)
Turn one or more photos of a paper document into a single PDF, right in this browser - no upload, no app to install.
Each photo becomes one page in the output PDF, in the order you selected them - a multi-page document in one file.
Everything runs locally in this browser tab; photos are never uploaded to a server.
Each page is saved as a JPEG image at high quality inside the PDF, not as vector text - a stack of several full-resolution phone photos can add up to a multi-megabyte file, so check the size before emailing a long scan.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Document Scanner (to PDF) do?
Turn one or more photos of a paper document into a single PDF, right in this browser - no upload, no app to install.
When should I reach for document scanner (to pdf)?
Each photo becomes one page in the output PDF, in the order you selected them - a multi-page document in one file.
What complementary tools work well alongside document scanner (to pdf)?
This captures and combines photos into a PDF - it does not run OCR (the pages are images, not searchable text) and it does not auto-detect or crop to the document's edges, so frame the paper before you take the photo.