Paper in.
PDF out.

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PaperCrane library with scanned documents
PaperCrane scanner finding the edges of an invoice
Converting Word, Excel, CSV, text and HTML files to PDF

Point.
It scans.

PaperCrane finds the edges, waits for your hand to steady, and captures the page on its own. Everything around it softly blurs, so you always know what's being scanned.

  • Auto and manual capture
  • Batch scanning: many pages, one save
  • Flash for dim rooms
Live scanner with the page outlined

One tap.
Done.

Rotate, switch filters and crop without digging through menus. Each tool is a single tap.

  • Enhanced, Original, Grayscale, B&W
  • Drag-the-corners crop
  • Reorder or delete pages anytime
One-tap rotate, filter and crop

Any file.
Into PDF.

Word, Excel, CSV, text, HTML and images become clean PDFs, or JPEG, PNG and WebP images. Preview the result before you save or share it.

  • Convert many files at once
  • PDF to images, page by page
  • Save as PDF, JPEG, PNG or WebP
Converter with five files ready

Websites,
as PDFs.

Paste any link and keep the whole page as a clean, multi-page PDF. Great for articles, receipts, tickets and recipes.

A web page saved as a PDF

See it in 50 seconds.

It names itself

Receipt. Invoice. Lease. Never IMG_20261109.

Small, sharp PDFs

Easy to email, save to Drive or share anywhere.

Copy the text

Text recognition runs on your phone, not in the cloud.

Your data stays yours.

No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your scans and files are processed on your phone and stay there. PaperCrane only goes online when you ask it to fetch a web page.

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Questions, ideas or a document that won't scan? We read everything.