A folder of images is not a document
The thing you need to hand over is one file. What a phone gives you is a folder of images, and turning one into the other is where the work usually goes:
- Order is fragile. Phone galleries and messaging apps export pages with names like image.jpg or KakaoTalk_20260901_140143932_01.jpg. Sorted by filename rather than by when you took them, a contract can arrive with its pages shuffled.
- Every page has to be cleaned separately. Each shot has its own shadow, its own angle, its own fold. Fixing them one at a time and then assembling the result by hand is the part nobody wants to do.
- Most places want a PDF. Expense systems, visa portals, landlords and HR forms ask for a document. Attaching six JPGs is not the same thing, and often is not accepted.
How it works
Pages are cleaned individually, then assembled:
- Each page is processed on its own. Shadow, skew, fold and contrast are judged per page, because the lighting and angle change from shot to shot. A page photographed against a dark desk is not treated like one shot on a windowsill.
- Order is preserved end to end. The merged PDF follows the order shown in the results list, which is the order the files went in. Pages are never re-sorted behind your back.
- Corrections carry into the PDF. If a page comes back upside down, one button turns it the right way up, and the merged file uses the orientation you chose.
Up to five pages go through at a time. A longer document is done in several batches, each producing its own PDF — practical for a two-page registration or a ten-page contract, less so for digitising a whole archive in one sitting.
How to use it
- Step 1 — Photograph each page in order (JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, BMP or GIF)
- Step 2 — Drop them in together and check the order before scanning
- Step 3 — Press Merge into one PDF and download a single file
Runs in the browser on any device. Your first two scans are free.
What people actually bring
- Vehicle and property registrations. Official certificates that print across two sides. The front is useless on its own — both pages have to arrive together, in order, as one file.
- Receipts for an expense claim. A hotel certificate, a boarding pass and an invoice, photographed in a hurry on a trip and submitted as a single attachment when you get home.
- Contracts and tenancy paperwork. Signed agreements run to several pages and are usually folded from an envelope. Every page needs the same treatment before it reads as a proper copy.
- Sheet music and study notes. Annotated scores and handwritten notes get photographed page by page so they can be read on a tablet. Pencil markings have to survive the cleanup, and the pages have to stay in order.
- Anything that arrived over a messaging app. Pages forwarded through WhatsApp, Telegram or KakaoTalk come out compressed and dim. They clean up well, but they arrive as separate files with near-identical names.
Frequently asked questions
- How many pages can I merge at once?
- Five per batch. The merged file is also capped by total size rather than page count, and if a batch is too large to combine safely you are told so rather than handed a broken PDF. Longer documents are done in several batches.
- Will the pages come out in the right order?
- The PDF follows the order in the results list, which is the order the files were selected in. Worth a look before merging: most phone galleries sort by filename, not by capture time, so pages exported with identical names can go in shuffled.
- What if one page comes out upside down?
- Every result has a rotate button, and the orientation you pick is carried into the merged PDF. You do not need to re-photograph or re-scan the page.
- Can I still get the pages separately?
- Yes. Each page keeps its own JPG and PDF download, and there is a ZIP of everything, right next to the merge button.
- Do I need to install an app?
- No. It runs in the browser. Sign in with Google, upload the photos you already have, and download the PDF.
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