Scan & Create
Make PDFs — scan, write, or batch them
A free PDF maker for the jobs that start without a PDF: scan paper with your phone camera or webcam, write a document from scratch, turn typed text into handwriting — and, once you have PDFs, run several jobs on a whole batch at once. It all happens on your device.
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Scan & Create tools
Scan paper with your camera, write a PDF, or chain tools together. Every one runs on your own device.
- Scan to PDF Photograph paper with your phone or webcam; get a straight, clean PDF.
- Create PDF Write a document with headings, lists and images, and save it as a PDF.
- Resume Builder Edit a complete example resume, check it like a screener would, and download an ATS-friendly PDF.
- PDF to Handwriting Rewrite a PDF or typed text by hand — in a handwriting font or your own letters.
- Handwriting to PDF Turn handwritten pages into typed text or a searchable scan — read on your device.
- PDF Workflow Run several tools in one pass: compress, number, watermark, lock.
Scan & Create guides
- How to scan a document to PDF on an iPhone or Android phone Scan paper to PDF with the phone you already have: the scanner in iPhone’s Files and Notes apps, the one in Google Drive on Android, and a browser scanner that needs nothing installed. Free, no upload.
- How to turn typed notes into handwriting for GoodNotes Make typed notes look handwritten and use them in GoodNotes or Notability: pick a hand, an ink and a paper, save the PDF, import it, then write over it with your pencil like any other page. Free, no upload.
- How to combine receipts into one PDF for an expense report Turn a pile of paper receipts into one clean, numbered PDF for an expense claim: photograph them with your phone, order them by date, number the pages to match your claim lines and keep it small. Free, no app, no upload.
- How to convert handwriting to text Turn handwritten notes, letters or a notebook into typed text: photograph the pages, let a handwriting model read each line, fix any misreads, then save a typed or searchable PDF. Free, no upload.
Making a PDF when you don’t have one yet
Most PDF tools assume you already have the PDF. These are for the step before: a letter on paper, a form you filled in by hand, a document you haven’t written yet. Scanning turns paper into pages — found in the photo, straightened, and cleaned up so the paper reads as white — without a scanning app or a flatbed.
Writing one from scratch is the other route. The editor handles headings, lists, links, tables and pictures, and saves a proper PDF with selectable text and bookmarks, not a picture of a page. Typed text can also come out as handwriting, on ruled, plain, grid or legal-pad paper.
Once there is a pile of PDFs, the workflow does the repetitive part: rotate, number, watermark, flatten, compress, clear metadata and lock every file, in an order that can’t go wrong, in one pass.
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Questions
Do I need to install an app to scan?
No. Scan to PDF uses your camera through the browser, on phones and laptops, and straightens and cleans each page on the device.
Can I run the same steps on many PDFs?
Yes. PDF Workflow chains steps like page numbers, compression and a password, and runs them on a whole batch.
Can I write a PDF without Word?
Yes. Create PDF is an editor in the page: write, format and save a real PDF, with no word processor and no account. Your draft is kept in this browser as you type.
Is anything I scan or write uploaded?
No. The camera feed, your photos and everything you type stay in this browser tab. The PDFs are built there too.