Scan & OCR
CamScanner in your browser
Scan Documents or Upload Photos
Snap pages with your phone camera or upload images. Enhance with CamScanner filters, extract editable OCR text, and compile into a clean PDF.
How to scan a document to PDF
- 1Open the scanner and snap each sheet you want to include with your camera.
- 2Apply an enhancement filter — Magic Color, B&W Doc, or Grayscale — to whiten the paper and make the text pop.
- 3Run OCR to pull the text out, edit it if you like, then compile the pages into a clean PDF.
A scanner for the phone in your pocket
No dedicated scanner needed. Snap photos of paper, receipts, notes or whiteboards, then let the enhancement filters fix lighting and contrast before compiling the PDF.
The OCR step extracts the text so you can copy, search and reuse it — or keep the scanned pages as-is if the words are only meant for the page.
Private scanning
Every frame is processed on your device. Your papers never go to a server — the same privacy that defines the rest of flarePDF.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers about scanning and OCR online for free with flarePDF.
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