Eight pages photographed on a phone is thirty megabytes, which no portal will accept and no mail server will carry. Drop the whole document in and take back a zip you can actually send — with the small print still small but still readable.
Flat, evenly lit, camera square over the page. Take them in order — the filenames keep that order all the way to the zip.
Up to ten pages at a time. Every page gets the same treatment, so the document stays consistent from cover to signature.
A handful of pages typically lands somewhere around a megabyte, against the thirty they started at.
Yes, and that is the reason this page exists separately. A photograph survives heavy compression because nobody is inspecting individual leaves; a page of text does not, because somebody is going to read a clause or copy a reference number off it. The quality here is deliberately set higher than it would be for holiday photos. A page of ordinary body text comes back around 150 to 200 KB and reads comfortably on screen.
A phone camera does not know it is looking at paper. It captures twelve megapixels of mostly white, at a level of detail meant for faces and landscapes, and writes three or four megabytes per page. Nearly all of that is describing the texture of the paper.
Not here — what comes back is one image per page in a zip. If the place you are submitting to insists on a PDF, run these through whatever your phone or computer already offers for combining images into one; the files coming out of here are small enough that the resulting PDF will be small too. Doing the compression first is what keeps that PDF sendable.
Judge it for yourself rather than taking a reassurance. Each upload sits at a random, unguessable address and is deleted within the hour. Nothing reads the contents, and no text or face recognition of any kind is run over them. The camera and location data are stripped from what you download, so the copy you send on does not record where you photographed it. The Privacy Notice sets out the whole of it. For genuinely sensitive originals, an offline tool on your own machine is still the more cautious choice, and that is a reasonable thing to prefer.
Do them in batches of ten. The settings stay put between batches, so page eleven onwards is treated exactly like the first ten, and you can unzip the lot into one folder afterwards.
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