Enhance a Scan or Photo

It lifts contrast, clears background speckle and sharpens faint text, which makes a grey or unevenly lit scan easier to read.

Yes, noticeably. Cleaning a scan before running OCR is one of the most effective ways to improve accuracy.

Both. Upload a scanned PDF and every page is cleaned and returned as a PDF with the same page sizes. Upload a photo or a JPG, PNG or WebP scan and you get a cleaned image back.

Cleaning a page means redrawing it, so text that was selectable becomes part of the picture. The words are still there to read but can no longer be selected or searched, and you are told when that applies to your file. Your original upload is never changed.

Yes. Every tool works without paying and without an account. Files can be up to 200 pages and 80 MB, and a run that fails costs you nothing.

No. All tools work without signing in. An account raises your hourly allowance and lets you see what you have processed.

It travels over an encrypted connection into a directory created for that single request, is processed, is returned to you, and the working copy is deleted as the request finishes. We keep a record that an operation ran — never the filename or the contents.