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Convert JPG to PDF

Convert JPG and PNG images to PDF. Adjust orientation and margins.

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How to convert images to PDF online for free

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    Click Select images and pick your photos

    Choose one photo or a whole batch of them from your camera roll, downloads folder or desktop. The images open locally as a grid of thumbnails inside the workspace — none of them have been sent anywhere to reach this preview.

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    Add more shots, remove the ones you don't want, or drag to reorder

    Use the Add more images button to append extra pictures at the end of the batch, and click the small × on any thumbnail to drop it. To change the sequence, grab the ⋮⋮ handle at the top of a thumbnail and drag the tile into a new slot — the other pictures shift out of the way as you move. The order shown in the grid is the order the pages will appear in the exported PDF.

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    Pick a page setup on the right

    Choose Page size — Fit to image gives each photo its own page sized exactly to the picture (plus your margin), while A4 or Letter forces every page to a standard sheet. When you pick A4 or Letter, set Orientation to Portrait or Landscape and pick a Margin in points around the picture.

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    Click Create PDF and download the result

    The tool decodes each image, embeds it at its original pixel resolution and writes a single PDF named images.pdf. The file is offered as a download to your device; nothing is stored on our side.

Turn photos of documents into one clean PDF

You photograph a form, a certificate or a page of handwritten notes with your phone — and then the portal, the recruiter or your accountant asks for ONE PDF, not seven separate photos. That's the exact gap this tool closes. Drop every picture into the workspace, arrange them so page one comes first, pick a page setup (Fit to image keeps each picture edge-to-edge; A4 or Letter makes every page a standard sheet), and hit Create PDF — out comes a single, tidy document you can attach anywhere PDFs are accepted.

A couple of honest photo tips make a big difference: shoot the page straight-on rather than at an angle, and take the picture in even light without your shadow falling across the paper — you'll get sharper text and truer colors, and the exported PDF looks like a scan rather than a snapshot. If you want an even cleaner result with automatic edge detection and perspective correction, Scan to PDF walks your camera through a guided capture flow built for flat documents.

Private conversion, your photos stay on your device

Photos are personal. Pages of your passport, a snap of a signed loan form, handwritten notes with names and phone numbers on them — that's the sort of thing people run through image-to-PDF converters every day. Most converter sites take every picture you drop and upload the raw files to their own servers before handing back a PDF, which quietly moves the privacy problem instead of solving it.

This tool doesn't do that. Each image is decoded, embedded and stitched into the PDF entirely inside your browser tab, so none of the source pictures — and none of the finished document — is ever transmitted to us. Once the page has loaded, the conversion step even keeps running offline if the network drops.

Many images, one PDF

Drop in as many JPG or PNG files as you need and every one of them becomes a page in a single combined PDF, in the order they appear in the grid. There is no cap and no add-a-page workflow — one Create PDF click produces the whole bundled document.

Control the page setup

Fit to image sizes each PDF page exactly to its photo (plus the margin you set), which is ideal when you want no white borders. Switch to A4 or Letter and pick Portrait or Landscape when the recipient expects a standard sheet, and the picture is centered inside the page with your chosen margin around it.

Quality preserved

Every image is embedded at its full original pixel dimensions — a 12 MP phone photo stays 12 MP inside the PDF. Nothing is downsampled to a preview resolution, so zooming into the exported page shows the same detail you'd see zooming into the original picture.

Works on your phone

The whole tool is a web page, so you can take photos with your phone camera and turn them into a PDF on the same phone, in the same browser session. No app to install, no camera-roll permission dance — pick the pictures from the standard file chooser and tap Create PDF.

When do you need to convert images to PDF?

Photographed documents for portals that only accept PDF

Job applications, university admissions and KYC forms typically insist on PDF uploads and reject standalone JPGs. Snap each page of your ID or transcript, arrange the shots here and export a single PDF that the portal will actually accept — no need to find a scanner or a print shop.

Handwritten notes or assignments as one file

Multi-page handwritten homework, meeting notes or a whiteboard photo series turns into a mess when uploaded as seven separate JPGs. Combining them into one PDF gives your professor, teammate or client a single tidy attachment that opens and prints in the right sequence.

Receipt and bill bundles for expense reports

Finance teams usually want expenses submitted as one PDF per trip or per month, not a folder of receipt photos. Drop every receipt shot into the workspace, choose A4 so all pages match, and export a single expense PDF you can attach to the reimbursement form.

Certificates and IDs bundled into a proper document

Scanned copies of a passport, degree certificate or address proof are often required together for visa or bank paperwork. Group all the pictures into one document with Fit to image so each certificate keeps its own page, and hand over a single professional-looking file instead of a zip of loose photos.

Frequently asked questions

How do I convert JPG to PDF for free?+

Open this page, click Select images and pick your JPG (or PNG) files, then choose a page setup on the right — Fit to image, A4 or Letter with an orientation and margin. Click Create PDF and a single file named images.pdf downloads to your device. There is no account, no card and no watermark added to the output.

Can I combine multiple images into one PDF?+

Yes — that's the point of the tool. Every image you add becomes one page in the same PDF, and they appear in the exact order shown in the thumbnail grid: the first tile is page one, the last tile is the final page. Use Add more to keep appending pictures until the batch is complete, then export.

What image formats are supported?+

JPG and PNG. The file picker accepts image/jpeg and image/png specifically. Formats like HEIC, WebP, TIFF and GIF are not accepted here — if your phone shoots in HEIC, share the pictures out as JPG first (most phones offer this automatically when you export or attach them).

Can I change the order of images before converting?+

Yes. Every thumbnail carries a ⋮⋮ drag handle at the top — press it and drag the tile to a new position in the grid, and the surrounding pictures slide out of the way to make room. The drag interaction has a dedicated touch sensor with a short press-and-hold, so reordering works on a phone as well as with a mouse. Whatever order you leave the grid in is the order the pages will appear in the exported PDF. You can also remove any picture with the small × on its tile.

Will my photos lose quality?+

No. Each picture is embedded at its full original pixel dimensions — a 4032×3024 photo stays 4032×3024 inside the PDF. The tool does re-encode JPG input into PNG data before embedding (that's what pdf-lib needs), and PNG is a lossless format, so no additional compression artifacts are introduced during that step.

Do my photos get uploaded to a server?+

No. The images are read, decoded and packaged into the PDF entirely inside your browser tab; no upload, no temporary server-side copy, no queue. Once this page has finished loading, the actual conversion step keeps working even if you disconnect from the internet.

Can I convert photos to PDF on my phone?+

Yes, and it is by far the most common use of this tool. On a phone, tapping Select images opens your standard photo picker so you can choose shots straight from the camera roll, and Create PDF hands the file back through your browser's normal download flow. No app install and no permission grants beyond picking the pictures themselves.

How do I make all pages the same size?+

Switch Page size from Fit to image to A4 or Letter. Every page in the exported PDF then uses the same standard sheet dimensions, with your chosen orientation, and each picture is centered inside its page with the margin you set. Fit to image, in contrast, gives every page a different size that matches its own photo.

Can I convert PNG screenshots to PDF?+

Yes. PNG is one of the two formats the file picker accepts, so screenshots taken on Windows, macOS, iOS or Android drop in the same way phone photos do. A screenshot's transparency, if any, is preserved during embedding but PDF viewers typically render the transparent area as white.

How do I do the reverse — PDF to images?+

Use the reverse tool: PDF to Image. It renders each page of a PDF as a JPG or PNG file at a resolution you choose. Everything happens in the browser there too, so the PDF you're extracting from never leaves your device.

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