Frequently asked questions

No. Photos, scans and PDFs are processed in your browser on your own device, and nothing is sent to a server. There is no sign-up. See the privacy policy for details.

Yes. All the tools on this website are free, with no sign-up and no limits on how many files you process.

Yes. Tap Save next to a result to keep a copy in My files. Saved files stay in your browser on this device and are never uploaded. In My files you can search by file name or by words inside saved PDFs and text files (scanned PDFs without selectable text are found by name only). In another tool, choose Choose from My files to use one again. Clearing your browser’s site data deletes them, so download anything you can’t lose.

Current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on phones and computers. The scanner needs permission to use your camera; if you decline, you can add photos from your device instead.

After your first visit, most tools keep working without a connection. Extract text (OCR) needs a connection the first time you use each language, to download the text engine and language data.

There is no upload limit because nothing is uploaded, but your device’s memory is. Very large PDFs or many big photos at once can stall on older phones. Try fewer or smaller files, or a lower resolution.

Scan documents with your camera or from photos; merge, split and reorganize PDFs; turn images into PDFs and PDF pages into images; compress and convert images and PDFs; edit images; and read text from pictures and PDFs (OCR).

The website is in English. The text recognition tool can read English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese and Korean.

Not yet. Remove the password in your PDF app first, then try again.

Very large files can run out of memory on some phones, so try fewer or smaller files. If it still fails, contact us and tell us which tool and browser you used.