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Make PDF Look Scanned
Give a digital PDF a printed and scanned look with tilt, grain, soft focus and paper tone.
Free, no uploads, no sign-up. Runs 100% in your browser.
How Make PDF Look Scanned works
Each page is rendered at the resolution you pick, then turned a fraction of a degree, given grain, a little blur, contrast and a warm paper tone, and saved as an image PDF. The preview shows page 1 as you move the sliders.
Input: PDF. Output: PDF.
How to use Make PDF Look Scanned
- Drop a PDF.
- Adjust tilt, grain, focus and tone.
- Download the scanned looking PDF.
Tips
- Encrypted PDFs must be unlocked first with Unlock PDF.
- Large scanned PDFs are mostly images. Compress PDF shrinks them the most.
- Your original file is never modified; you always download a new copy.
Make PDF Look Scanned FAQ
- Are my files uploaded?
- No. This tool runs entirely in your browser tab. Files are read from your disk into memory and the result is generated locally.
- Is it free? Are there limits or watermarks?
- Free and open source (MIT). There are no file-size caps, daily quotas, accounts or watermarks.
- Does it work offline?
- Yes, once the page (and any engine it needs) has loaded, it keeps working without a connection thanks to the service worker cache.
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