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PDF Scan Cleanup

Clean scanned PDF pages using document-image processing.

  1. 1Select files
  2. 2Set options
  3. 3Get results

This tool processes selected files in your browser.

Accepted: application/pdf, .pdf. Desktop cap 100 MiB per file.

Raster rebuild cannot keep selectable text.

How it works

  1. Choose an unencrypted scanned PDF.
  2. Optional deskew and contrast. Leave Preserve text off.
  3. Download a cleaned raster PDF at the original page size.

Files stay in this tab. No upload.

Conventional filters only. Not a neural document scanner. Selectable text is lost.

Supported inputs and outputs

PDF in and out. Output is a raster PDF.

Example

A bar skewed about 6° is deskewed; page width and height in points are kept.

Questions and answers

Is this AI scan cleanup?

No. It is grayscale, contrast stretch, and projection deskew.

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