You do not need a scanner or an app. A phone camera and a browser are enough to make a tidy, shareable PDF.
Take better photos first
- Put the page on a flat, plain surface with good, even light. Avoid shadows from your hand or phone.
- Hold the phone directly above the page so the edges stay straight.
- Fill the frame with the page and keep the text sharp. Tap the screen to focus.
- Turn off the flash, which causes glare on paper.
Steps
- Open the scan to PDF tool on your phone. It opens the camera.
- Take one photo per page, or add several from your gallery.
- Choose the Document clean-up to brighten and sharpen the pages, or keep the photos as they are.
- Check the page order and make the PDF.
Make the file the right size
Many portals limit uploads. If your PDF is too large, use compress PDF and pick the size the form allows. If you have several PDFs to combine, use merge PDF.
If you need to edit the text
A scan is a picture, so the text cannot be selected. To copy the words, use image to text, which reads the text from a photo.
Privacy
The pages are processed in your browser and are not uploaded, which matters for identity documents, bills and certificates.