Your documents never leave your device
Photograph the pages, get one clean PDF. No upload to a stranger's server, no watermark, no "3 free scans" ransom. Free means free.
Switch the phone to airplane mode and scan anyway — it works. The only thing this page ever asks the network for is its own code, and it caches that, so nothing you photograph is uploaded, to us or to anyone. Your phone decodes, resizes and assembles the PDF itself, with a copy of pdf-lib that ships inside the app. No account, no ads, no analytics, no telemetry, no third-party scripts, nothing used to train anything. Redrawing each photo also drops its camera metadata, so the finished PDF carries no EXIF and no GPS location. Captured pages are kept in this browser's own storage on this device so a phone call or a reload can't lose them — nowhere else — and “Clear everything” really deletes them.
Microsoft Lens stopped scanning on 9 March 2026 and points you at an account and a cloud instead. This does the same job in a browser tab. CamScanner Premium is $4.99 a week; this is $0, with nothing to cancel and no purchase surface anywhere in the app.
Fill the frame with the page, shadow-free. Up to 100 pages in one PDF, and up to 150 MB of photos in one sitting — you'll be told the moment either one stops you, not afterwards. Every photo is resized to 2600px on the long edge (about 230 dpi on Letter) so the file stays emailable. Nothing else is counted, capped, watermarked or held back for a paid tier.
Pages
Pages appear here — tax forms, receipts, kids' art, the lease you should really have a copy of. Tap any page to see it full size and check it, turn it, retake just that one, or delete it.
Make the PDF
Up to 60 characters; \ / : * ? " < > | become
hyphens so the name survives every filesystem. Or name it in one tap:
Add a page and the finished file size appears here, before you download it.
Printing this page (Ctrl+P) puts the captures on paper, one per sheet, without any of the buttons. “Make the PDF” is what gives you a file.
What this can't do
- No automatic edge detection or perspective correction. Fill the frame squarely and the result is square; there is no cropping tool.
- No OCR. The text in the PDF is a picture of text, so it won't be searchable or selectable.
- No cloud archive, no sync between devices, no account to recover. Pages live in this browser until you export or clear them — treat it as a pipe, not a filing cabinet.