diff --git a/scan.sh b/scan.sh
index 5e24106..3feb79a 100755
--- a/scan.sh
+++ b/scan.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 # Install:
 #   sudo apt install imagemagick poppler-utils sane tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-deu tesseract-ocr-eng unpaper
 
-OUTPUT="scan_$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).pdf"
+SCAN_DIR="scans"
+mkdir -p "$SCAN_DIR"
+OUTPUT="$SCAN_DIR/scan_$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).pdf"
 HELP=0
 VERBOSE=0