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Scan to PDF

Photograph the pages, drop them here: straightened, whitened, one PDF.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert Scan to PDF

  1. Drop the page photos.
  2. Put them in order; pick grey or colour.
  3. Press Convert and download the PDF.

What happens to your file

Each photo is cleaned as Clean up scan does — turned upright, straightened by its text lines, paper whitened, dark edges and speckles removed — and then bound into one PDF, a page per photo, in the order you set. HEIC from an iPhone is accepted directly.

The page size follows the photo unless you choose A4 or Letter; the result is not yet searchable — Image to text or Searchable PDF reads it.

Questions

How should I photograph a page?

Flat, filling the frame, in even light, straight above it. A few degrees of tilt is fine; a steep angle is not — this straightens rotation, not perspective.

Is the PDF searchable?

Not yet. OCR PDF makes it so; run it on the result.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "image.to-pdf",
    "options": {
      "clean": true,
      "clean_mode": "gray",
      "page_size": "fit",
      "orientation": "auto",
      "margin": "none",
      "combine": "one",
      "file_ids": [
        "<second file id>"
      ]
    }
  }'

The same operation, image.to-pdf — One or more images become one PDF, a page per image at its own size. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.