PageCleaner: Clean up scanned PDFs
Reduce speckled noise and gray backgrounds in scanned PDFs, then save the processed pages as a new PDF.
Open PageCleaner ↗This is a product information page. File selection and processing happen in the linked tool.
What it does
- Adjust noise and screentone reduction separately from background cleanup.
- Process the selected PDF page by page in your browser, with progress updates.
- Download a PDF containing the processed black-and-white page images.
Before you use it
- The output is an image-based PDF. It does not retain color or searchable text, and page size or placement may differ from the original.
- Stronger settings can blur or remove thin lettering and fine image details.
The file-processing code runs in your browser. The tool loads PDF and image-processing libraries from external sites when it opens.