JPG to PDF

How to convert images to PDF

1. Add your images. Drag them onto the box above or click to browse. Select several at once, and add more afterwards. Thumbnails and dimensions appear so you can confirm you have the right files.
2. Set the order. Each image becomes one page, top to bottom. Use the arrows to rearrange.
3. Choose page size. Fit to image sizes every page to its image, with no white space. A4 or US Letter produce printable pages with the image scaled to fit inside.
4. Add a margin if you want one, then create and download the PDF.

Nothing is uploaded. Close the tab before downloading and the result is gone, because no copy exists elsewhere.

When you would need this

Turning photos of documents into a proper file. Photographing a signed form, a receipt or an ID and sending the images works, but a single PDF is what most organisations actually ask for, and it keeps multi-page documents together and in order.

Submitting a scan where separate images are not accepted. Application portals, insurance claims and expense systems usually require PDF. Converting a folder of scans is faster than reassembling them in a word processor.

Bundling receipts for an expense claim. Twelve photographs become one document your finance team can read in order rather than twelve attachments.

Making a portfolio or contact sheet. A sequence of images as one file is easy to send, easy to view in order, and does not require the recipient to unzip anything.

Archiving screenshots. Screenshots of a conversation, a booking confirmation or an error message stay in the right order and stay together as a PDF.

Tips for a better result

Choose fit-to-image for screens, a fixed size for print. Fit-to-image gives a PDF with no wasted white space, which looks right on a phone or monitor. But its pages are whatever size your photos are, which is rarely a standard paper size, so printing produces unpredictable scaling. If the document will be printed or submitted to a system expecting normal pages, pick A4 or Letter.

Name files so they sort correctly. Selecting many images at once adds them in your operating system's alphabetical order, which puts img10.jpg before img2.jpg. Zero-padding the numbers makes the automatic order the right one.

Convert photographs to JPG before building the PDF. PNG is lossless, which is excellent for screenshots and line art and wasteful for photographs — a PNG photo can be several times the size of a visually identical JPG, and that size goes straight into your PDF. Our image converter handles this in one step.

Crop and rotate before converting, not after. Fixing an image is straightforward; fixing a page inside a PDF is not. Get each image right first, then build the document.

Use a small margin for documents that will be printed. Many printers cannot print to the very edge of a page, and will either clip the content or scale it down unexpectedly. A small margin avoids both.

Photograph documents in even light. The most common problem with phone photos of paper is not resolution but shadow — often the shadow of the phone itself. Light from the side, or from a window, gives a far more legible result than an overhead shot.

Limits and requirements

Only JPG and PNG embed without re-encoding. These two are what the PDF format supports directly. WebP, AVIF, GIF and BMP are converted to JPEG on your device first, which is one lossy step. Start from PNG if that matters.

Transparency is flattened. PDF pages have no transparent background in this context, so transparent areas of a PNG or WebP are composited onto white. This is normally what you want, but a logo designed for a dark background will look wrong.

Animated GIFs contribute one frame. Only the first frame is used. PDF pages are static.

Memory is the constraint. Every image is decoded and embedded in memory. Dozens of high-resolution photos from a modern phone camera can be substantial, and phones have less headroom than laptops. If it fails, build the PDF in smaller batches and merge the parts.

Text in images stays an image. This tool places your photos into a PDF; it does not perform text recognition. The result is not searchable or selectable, which is expected for photographed documents.

Browser support. Any modern browser from roughly the last five years, on desktop or mobile. JavaScript must be enabled.

Privacy: how this tool handles your images

Your images never leave your device. When you add a file, your browser reads it into memory, the PDF is assembled in your tab, and the finished file is handed straight back to you. There is no upload, no server-side processing, and no copy on our infrastructure — because no infrastructure is involved.

This matters more here than for almost any other conversion, because of what people photograph. Passports and driving licences. Signed contracts. Medical letters. Bank statements. Utility bills for proof of address. These are exactly the documents identity theft is built on, and the ordinary way to convert them online involves uploading them to a company you have never heard of.

It is worth noting a related point: photos taken on a phone usually carry EXIF metadata, including the GPS coordinates where the picture was taken. Embedding an image in a PDF does not carry that location data across, so a PDF built here does not expose where you photographed the document. If you are sharing the original images anywhere else, our EXIF remover strips it.

You can verify all of this rather than trusting it. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and build a PDF — no request carries your images. Or disconnect from the internet after the page loads and do it anyway; it still works.