Add a realistic scanner / photocopy effect to your PDF (slight tilt, paper grain, soft contrast, optional yellow/grey tint) to make a clean digital PDF look like it came straight out of a real-world scanner. Perfect for forms, archives and authenticity tests.
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Some workflows (printed-and-rescanned form submissions, archival fakes for testing OCR pipelines, presentations that need a vintage feel, art projects) look better when the PDF appears scanned rather than crisp-digital. The effect adds realistic tilt, grain and tone for an instant analog feel.
Yes — applying the effect rasterizes every page, so the resulting PDF is image-based and text is no longer selectable. Keep a backup of the digital PDF and use the scanned-looking version only as the final deliverable.
Yes. Every parameter (tilt amplitude, grain intensity, contrast, brightness, tint) is exposed as a slider so you can dial in anything from a "barely-scanned" look to a heavy "20-year-old photocopier" feel.
No. The whole render happens in your browser using PDF.js and the HTML5 canvas. Your original PDF and the scanned-looking output never leave your device.
Yes — the scanner-style PDF can be fed back into our OCR PDF tool to extract its text. That is exactly the kind of round-trip many people use to test OCR pipelines against realistic input.