Convert JPG to PDF
Put a set of photos into one PDF, a page for each, in the order you want.
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How it works
Add your images
Drag and drop, paste, or pick files. They upload over an encrypted connection.
Pick a quality or a target size
Use the quality slider, or tell it exactly how many KB or MB you need.
Download
Save each file, or grab them all at once as a ZIP.
A PDF is how pictures become a document. Twelve photos of a contract, sent one by one, are twelve attachments in no particular order. The same twelve in one PDF can be read from the first page to the last, printed in one go and filed under one name. Add your JPGs here and they come back as a single PDF with one photo on each page.
The pages follow the order of the list. Select an image and use the arrows next to its name to move it earlier or later. Choose the paper, A4 or US Letter, or let every page take the size of its picture. On paper sizes the photo is scaled to fit inside the margin and centred, and a wide photo turns the page to landscape by itself.
Twenty photos at a time are free and need no account; Pro takes 500. Each photo is uploaded over an encrypted connection and prepared on our own servers, and the pages are then put together into the PDF file you download. Nothing is kept on our side for longer than an hour.
How large the PDF will be
A PDF made of photos weighs what its photos weigh, plus a few hundred bytes for each page. Each JPG is placed in the file as it is, so the PDF step adds no second round of compression and no extra size. What matters is the pictures you put in.
Straight from a phone, a twelve-megapixel photo is 2 to 4 MB, so twenty pages make a PDF of 50 MB or more, too big for most mail servers and upload forms. Switch on Resize and set the long side to 1600 pixels. That is the resolution of an A4 page printed at about 140 dots per inch, perfectly readable, and each page drops to 300 to 500 KB. Lowering the quality slider from 85 to 70 takes off a further third or so.
For a hard limit, divide it by the number of pages and enter the result as a Target size. Every page is then brought under its share.
Photographed paperwork that reads like a scan
Many people use this page as a scanner: receipts, signed forms, pages of a passport, handwritten notes. Three small things separate a tidy result from a sloppy one. Photograph each sheet straight from above in even light, so there are no shadows and no slanted edges. Crop each picture to the paper in the editor; a page that fills its frame looks scanned, a page floating on a kitchen table does not. And for text-only pages, switch on Black and white in the Advanced tab: the yellow cast of indoor light disappears and the file gets smaller.
What kind of PDF you get
The result is a picture PDF. Every page is an image, which is exactly right for photos and for scans that only need to be looked at or printed. It also means the text in a photographed document cannot be selected, searched or read aloud by a screen reader, because to the computer it is still a picture of text. If you need the words themselves, the image-to-text tool on this site reads them out of a picture.
The file has no password and no restrictions, and follows a version of the format that every PDF reader of the last twenty years opens.
Frequently asked questions
How do I change the order of the pages?
Select an image in the list and use the up and down arrows beside its name. The page number is shown there too. The PDF follows the list from first to last.
Does converting to PDF reduce the quality of my photos?
The PDF step does not. Each page is a JPEG placed in the file unchanged. The quality is set by the slider, which starts at 85; raise it if you want the pages closer to the originals.
Can I put several photos on one page?
No. Each photo gets a page of its own.
Can I add pages to a PDF I already have?
Not here. This page makes a new PDF from pictures. It does not open or merge existing PDF files.
Which page size should I pick?
A4 or Letter when the PDF may be printed or is meant to look like a document. Same as the image when it is only viewed on screens and every picture should fill its page exactly.
Is the text in my document searchable in the PDF?
No. The pages are pictures. Searching needs text recognition, which this page does not add.