Make it Look Scanned — PDF, Images & DOCX

A freshly exported document looks too perfect — crisp text, pure-white background, perfectly straight pages. Sometimes you need it to look like it came off a real scanner or photocopier. The AlarmDaddy "Make it Look Scanned" tool takes your files, applies a realistic scanned look and hands you a single PDF to download — and it all happens inside your browser, so your documents are never uploaded anywhere.

It accepts many formats: **PDF, images** (JPG, PNG, WebP and more), **Word DOCX** and plain **text** files. Drop in several files at once and they're combined, in order, into one scanned PDF.

You're in full control of the effect. Choose colour, grayscale or true **black-and-white**; set the scan resolution (DPI); add a gentle rotation jitter so each page sits slightly crooked; dial in paper grain/noise, a touch of blur, brightness and contrast; and switch on a warm paper tint and an edge shadow (vignette) for extra realism.

Need a small file? Switch to **Target size** mode and enter the maximum size you want (in KB) — the tool automatically picks the JPEG quality to get close, so you can meet an upload limit without guesswork. And as you change any setting, the **estimated output file size updates in real time**, along with a live preview of the first page, so you know what you'll get before you download.

This is genuinely private: files are read locally, each page is processed on a canvas, and the PDF is rebuilt in memory. Nothing is sent to a server, logged or stored.