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Photo to Scan, Flatten a Document Photo in Your Browser

Snap a document, get a scan. Edges found, page flattened, fingers gone, and it looks like it came off a flatbed. Free, no sign-up, and your photo stays on your device.

What this does

Turn a phone photo of a document into a flat, scanner-style page in your browser: it finds the page edges, corrects the perspective, removes fingers holding the page, and exports PNG, JPG or PDF - with no sign-up, no watermark, and the photo never uploaded.

Runs on your device. Your photo is never uploaded.

About this tool

Free, no sign-up. The whole pipeline - finding the page, flattening the perspective, filling in fingers, evening out the lighting and writing the PDF - runs right here in your browser, so the photo is never uploaded. That matters when the document is an ID, a visa page, a payslip or a signed contract. Part of techtuate, a growing collection of little tools that just work.

How it works

  1. Find the page. The tool traces the outline of the document, even with text and busy backgrounds around it. Nudge any corner if it guessed wrong.
  2. Flatten it. A perspective correction turns the tilted, trapezoid photo into a straight rectangle with sharp corners. Pick A4, Letter, ID card or passport to lock the proportions.
  3. Clean it up. Fingers touching the page edge are filled with the paper around them, uneven lighting and shadows are evened out, and the text is sharpened. Paint over anything else you want gone.

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Questions people ask

How do I turn a photo of a document into a scan?

Drop the photo in, check the four corners of the page, and the tool flattens the perspective into a straight rectangle, evens out the lighting and sharpens the text, then exports PNG, JPG or PDF.

Is my photo uploaded anywhere?

No. Photo to Scan runs entirely in your browser. Edge detection, flattening and cleanup all happen on your device, so it is safe for IDs, visas, receipts and contracts.

How does it remove fingers from the scan?

After flattening, it looks for skin-coloured areas touching the edge of the page and fills them with the surrounding paper colour. Anything it misses, you can paint over and it is filled the same way.

Can I save the scan as a PDF?

Yes. Download as PNG, JPG or a single-page PDF, with no watermark and no sign-up. A4 and Letter shapes export at true page size.

Does increasing resolution add detail?

The 1.5x and 2x options use bicubic upscaling plus sharpening, which makes small text print and zoom more cleanly. It cannot invent detail the camera never captured, so start from the sharpest photo you can.