Scan a document with your phone

Almost nobody owns a flatbed scanner anymore, but everyone needs a "scanned copy" of something: a signed lease, a receipt for an expense report, a form for a government portal, a void cheque for payroll, a permission slip. A raw phone photo won't do — it's shot at an angle, has shadows and a grey cast, shows your kitchen table in the background, and arrives as a 6 MB JPG when the portal demanded a PDF.

This tool fixes all of that in four steps, none of which involve uploading your document anywhere:

1. Photograph the document and drop the photo here (or several, for a multi-page document).
2. Drag the four corners onto the edges of the page. The tool corrects the perspective — the skewed, angled photo becomes a flat, square-on rectangle, exactly as if it had been laid on a scanner bed.
3. Pick a look. Black & white gives you the classic crisp scan with a pure-white background; grayscale keeps soft detail; color preserves everything. Brightness and contrast sliders clean up shadows and uneven lighting.
4. Download a single cleaned image, or combine all your pages into one PDF.

Why do it here instead of a scanner app?

• Your documents stay private. Scanner apps and online converters process your file on their servers — and the documents people scan are exactly the sensitive ones: IDs, tax forms, contracts, medical paperwork. Here, the photo is processed by your own device and never transmitted.
• No watermark, no account, no subscription. The popular phone scanner apps stamp a watermark on free scans or lock PDF export behind a paywall. This is simply free.
• Works on a laptop too. Photograph with your phone, drop the image on your computer — no app install on either device.

Scanned file still too large for an upload limit? Run it through the PDF compressor — see our guide on hitting an exact PDF size limit. Need to hide sensitive details on the page? Use the redaction tool.