Your phone is the scanner
No scanner in the house? You’ve got one in your pocket. Photograph the pages you need, drop them in here, and they come out as a single PDF. A signed form, a receipt for an expense report, a stack of handwritten notes: snap, combine, done.
On a phone, tap Use camera and it opens the rear camera so you can shoot each page. On a laptop, drag in the images you already have. Add as many as you want, drag them into the right order, and each one becomes a page in the finished document.
How it builds the file
Pick your images, set a page size, and hit Create PDF. Every photo gets flattened to a clean page and stacked into one file you can download. The whole thing runs in your browser with pdf-lib, so the pages never get uploaded. That receipt with your address on it stays on your device.
Three page-size options cover the usual cases. A4 and Letter center each photo on a standard document page with a small margin, which is what you want when the PDF needs to print or match other paperwork. Match photo makes each page the exact size of the image, handy for screenshots or when you don’t want any whitespace around the edges.
A few things that help
A steady, well-lit photo makes a readable page. Shoot straight down on the document, fill the frame, and avoid shadows from your own hand. The tool doesn’t auto-crop or de-skew, so a tidy photo going in means a tidy page coming out.
Order matters, and it’s easy to fix. The list shows your pages numbered, with up and down arrows to rearrange and an X to drop one. Sort them before you build and the PDF comes out in the right sequence.
Any common image works. Camera JPEGs, PNG screenshots, WebP, you can mix them. Each gets re-encoded to a standard page, so you don’t have to convert anything first.
Where it comes in handy
- Expense reports that want receipts as a single PDF, not twelve loose photos
- Sending a signed form back when you don’t have a real scanner
- Turning whiteboard or notebook photos into one shareable document
- Combining screenshots into a tidy PDF for a bug report or a how-to
- Archiving paper documents as searchable-free but compact PDF files
Questions people ask
Do my photos get uploaded? No. The PDF is assembled in your browser with pdf-lib. Your images stay on your device, which matters for receipts, IDs, and forms with personal details.
Can I really use my phone camera? Yes. On a phone or tablet, the Use camera button opens the rear camera to capture pages one at a time. On desktop it falls back to picking files, since most laptops only have a front webcam.
Does it make the text searchable? No. The pages are images of your document, so the text isn’t selectable. That needs OCR, which this tool doesn’t do. It packages photos into a PDF, it doesn’t read them.
What image formats can I add? JPG, PNG, WebP, and other common image types. You can mix formats in one document, and each is converted to a standard page automatically.
Can I change the page order? Yes. Each image shows in a numbered list with arrows to move it up or down and an X to remove it. Arrange them, then build.
Will the photos lose quality? There’s light JPEG compression to keep the file size sane. For a normal document photo it stays perfectly readable. If you need pixel-perfect images, pick the Match photo size.