Scan to PDF with your phone

Phone photo of a document in, one PDF page out — the page is the photo, edge to edge, with no A4 white bars and nothing uploaded.

🔒 100% client-side · zero server upload

Pages

This list is the page order: drag a row, or use the arrows, to change it.

No photos yet. Add a photo and its page appears here — with the printed size, before anything is built.

    The PDF is assembled in this tab. No photo, no page and no filename is sent anywhere — you can pull the network cable out and it still works.

    Malaysian rules & edge cases

    What a Malaysian printer will actually do with it

    A4 is 210 × 297 mm — that is the paper in every office and every RM199 inkjet here, and it is what this tool makes by default. Letter (8.5 × 11 in) is a US size that most Malaysian trays do not hold; it is offered only because some bank forms are printed for it.

    • 0 mm margin does not print. Most inkjets cannot put ink on the last 3–5 mm, so a full-bleed page comes out with a white rim or a smeared edge. 10 mm is the safe default.
    • Pixels decide the sharpness. 300 dpi on A4 needs 2480 × 3508 px; 150 dpi needs 1240 × 1754 px. A phone photo is usually 3000–4000 px on the long edge, so it prints A4 comfortably. Capping the long edge at 2000 px still gives about 170 dpi — sharp for text, and a third of the file size.
    • Why the file is smaller than the photos: each photo is re-encoded on the way in. That is also what removes the GPS tag, the camera model and the timestamp — a photo taken at your shop does not carry your home address into a document you email.
    • HEIC is not an image the browser can read. iPhones save HEIC. Convert with the HEIC to JPG tool first; this page tells you so instead of failing silently.
    • Portals cap uploads. Bank, SSM and LHDN forms usually take a PDF of a few megabytes and reject a 20 MB phone scan. Capping the long edge is the cheapest fix, and the page tells you the resulting size before you upload.
    • One photo, one page — in your order. This is not a layout tool: no collage, no two-up, no rotation of the photo itself. Rotation belongs to the crop tool, and the page orientation here only decides which way the paper is turned.

    Before and after

    Before

    resit-kedai.png (1200×1600) + baju-kurung.jpg (2400×3200) + banner-raya.png (2400×1350)

    After

    resit-kedai-3.pdf — 3 pages, A4 with a 10 mm margin, 4.1 MB

    How it works

    1. Add the photos — the order you add them is the order of the pages.
    2. Pick the page size, margin and photo pixels. The page list shows the printed size of every page before you download.
    3. Press Run, check the page count, then download the PDF. Nothing was uploaded.

    FAQ

    Does it straighten a crooked photo?

    No. This page has no deskew and no cropping — it lays the photo on the page exactly as taken. Straighten with the crop and rotate tools first if the page has to look flat; pretending to auto-straighten is how a scanner app ends up cutting the signature off.

    Why is the page not A4?

    In scan mode the page takes the photo’s shape at A4’s 297 mm long edge, so a page photographed upright becomes a portrait page with no wasted margin. Switch the page size to A4 if the recipient insists on A4 paper.

    Is a phone photo good enough to submit?

    For most Malaysian paperwork, yes: a modern phone at arm’s length gives about 250 dpi on A4. Keep the pixel cap off, put the paper on a flat surface with even light, and check the page count before you upload.