Scanner Effect
Make a digital PDF look scanned — greyscale, edge shadow, page skew, grain and paper tint at your chosen DPI.
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Despre acest instrument
Scanner Effect makes a born-digital PDF look like it came off a flatbed scanner. It combines greyscale conversion, soft edge shadows, per-page skew, gaussian blur, sensor grain and a paper-yellow cast.
Each page gets its own random skew within the variance you set, so a stack of pages looks genuinely hand-fed rather than mechanically identical. Output resolution is configurable from 72 to 300 DPI.
A live preview shows your settings on the first page before you render the whole document, and all processing stays in your browser.
Cum se utilizează
Upload Your PDF
Drag and drop your PDF or click to select it.
Tune the Effect
Set greyscale, border shadow, skew and skew variance, brightness, contrast, blur, grain, paper tint and DPI.
Apply and Download
Click Apply to process every page, then download the scanned-looking PDF.
Cazuri de utilizare
Consistent Document Sets
Give digitally generated forms the same look as the scanned pages they sit alongside.
Design Mockups
Produce realistic scanned-paper assets for presentations and portfolios.
Print-and-Scan Testing
Simulate scan degradation to test OCR pipelines without a physical scanner.
Întrebări frecvente
Why is the preview not skewed like the output?
The preview shows the base skew only. Per-page random variance is applied during the final render so every page differs.
What DPI should I use?
150 DPI matches a typical office scanner. 300 DPI is sharper but produces a much larger file.
Does the file get bigger?
Usually yes — pages become JPEG images. Lower the DPI if size matters.