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How to Use Scan to PDF (Camera Scanner)

2026-11-134 min readBy Apex Tool Station Team

Take photos of documents with your camera, enhance them to clean black-and-white scans and save as one PDF.

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1. What is Scan to PDF (Camera Scanner)?

Turn your phone into a document scanner. Photograph receipts, notes, forms or ID copies (on a phone the camera opens directly), and the tool cleans them into crisp black-and-white scans with adaptive thresholding — or keeps them in grayscale or color. Add several pages and save them as one PDF. Images are processed on your device.

2. How to use Scan to PDF (Camera Scanner)

Here is the whole process, step by step. It takes less than a minute from opening the tool to seeing your result.

1Fill in the 📷 Take photo / choose images field.
2Your result appears on the page.

Press the "Create PDF" button and your result appears on the page.

Everything runs in your browser — your files and text never leave your device.

3. What you can do with it

Run the tool with the "Create PDF" button when your input is ready.

4. Tips for best results

Your text never leaves your device — The tool runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded, so you can paste private documents without worry. That also means there is no account to create and no file to upload.
It works on your phone too — Open the tool in any modern browser on Android or iPhone. The layout adjusts to the screen and everything works the same way on a small screen as on a desktop.