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Capture a full web page and extract it as a vector PDF. Page Scanner turns any web page into a PDF that is actually a document, not a picture of one. One click captures the whole page, top to bottom, in a single layout. The editor opens in a new tab where you crop exactly the region you want, then export it. Text stays selectable, vector graphics stay sharp at any zoom, and the crop you draw on screen is the crop you get in the file. HOW IT WORKS • Click the toolbar icon, or press Alt+Shift+P, on the page you want. • The whole page is laid out once at its full height, and both the preview and the PDF are taken from that single layout. That is why the crop lines up perfectly with the output. • Drag the frame edges to crop, drag inside it to move it, scroll or pinch to zoom. • Extract, pick the format, and the file downloads. A PNG can go to the clipboard instead, so it pastes straight into whatever you were doing. WHAT YOU GET • Real vectors and selectable, searchable, copyable text, not a screenshot pasted into a PDF. • One long page at the exact size of your crop, or the crop sliced onto A4 sheets. • PNG and JPEG of the same crop when you want an image instead, with a quality control for JPEG and the output pixel size shown before you commit. • Full page height, including everything below the fold, without scrolling or stitching. • A raster fallback that still produces a usable PDF on pages where the vector capture cannot run, clearly labelled so you always know which one you got. • Light and dark themes. PRIVACY Page Scanner makes no network requests, contains no analytics, and collects no data. Captures live in your own browser and are deleted automatically after 12 hours. There are no host permissions, so the extension has no standing access to any site: it only ever touches the one tab you scan, at the moment you scan it. A NOTE ON THE DEBUGGER BANNER Producing a true vector PDF requires Chrome's own print-to-PDF pipeline, which extensions reach through the debugger API. While a scan runs, Chrome shows a "Page Scanner started debugging this browser" bar at the top of the window. It is Chrome's notice, not the extension's, it appears for a few seconds per scan, and it cannot be suppressed. Nothing is being inspected or sent anywhere. KNOWN LIMITS • Chrome does not let any extension read chrome:// pages, the Web Store, or other extensions' pages. • If DevTools is open on the tab, the vector capture cannot attach and the raster fallback is used instead. • Laying a page out at full height makes viewport-relative CSS (a 100vh hero, for example) render at the height of the whole page. The preview shows exactly what the PDF will contain, so there are no surprises.