Photos of paper, in the order you choose
Receipts, an ID, a signed form, six pages of a lease: drop the pictures, arrange them, pick A4 or Letter, and download one PDF where every photo is its own page. Nothing is uploaded.
The Image to PDF converter turns photos and scans into one PDF, with the page size, orientation, margin and photo placement you choose. The PDF is assembled in your browser, so a passport scan or an invoice is never sent to a server.
A folder of JPEGs is not a document
Six photos of a contract in a chat app arrive out of order, half of them rotated, and none of them open the same way on a laptop as on a phone. A PDF is the format that keeps the order, keeps the page count and prints the same on any machine. That is the whole reason to convert: not quality, but a document that behaves like a document.
The pictures themselves stay pictures. A photo of a page is not text - nobody can search it, copy an amount out of it or fill it in. That is fine for a receipt or an ID copy, which are read by a human anyway; for a text document, scanning with OCR or keeping the original PDF is better.
Order is the part people underestimate. A lease with page 3 before page 2 gets sent back, and a receipt bundle with the total on the last page is read twice. The list in this tool is the final page order: the number on the left is where the page lands, and moving a row is cheaper than re-exporting.
Four moves, one file
Drop the photos
JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP, as many as you like. Each one becomes a page.
Set the order
Move rows up or down, remove a page. The numbers are the final order in the PDF.
Choose the page
A4, Letter, A5 or the photo's own size; portrait or landscape, with a margin in points.
Download
One PDF, built in the browser. The result row shows the page count and the file size.
Which page size to pick
| Format | Size | When it is the right choice |
|---|---|---|
| A4 | 210 × 297 mm | anything printed in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia |
| US Letter | 216 × 279 mm | anything printed in the US, Canada or Mexico |
| A5 | 148 × 210 mm | notebooks, small handouts, half-fold booklets |
| Fit the photo | the image's own size | screenshots, receipts, chat exports - no white bands |
Details that decide whether it prints well
A margin is the part of the page the printer cannot reach. Most office printers leave a few millimetres at each edge, so a photo that fills the page to the border either gets trimmed or shows a white line. A 20 point margin is about 7 mm - enough for a normal printer, invisible on screen.
For a document that will only be read on a phone, set the margin to zero and let the photo use the whole page. For anything that goes to a print shop or through a form scanner, keep a margin: the form's own border is another few millimetres and a cropped edge can invalidate a copy of an ID.
JPG files are embedded into the PDF without being recompressed, so a phone photo keeps exactly the quality it had. PNG, WebP and GIF go through the browser's decoder first, which costs nothing visible at normal sizes.
Transparency is preserved when the source has it - a PNG logo stays a PNG inside the PDF. Everything else becomes JPEG at high quality, because a lossless photo inside a PDF makes a file three times larger for no visible benefit.
A PDF with photos is as heavy as the photos are. Twelve 4 MB phone pictures make a 48 MB document no matter how it is assembled, because the data is copied, not converted. If the result has to go through an upload form with a limit, shrink the pictures first.
The fastest way is to reduce their resolution, not their quality: a photo that will be displayed at A4 needs about 2500 pixels on the long edge at 300 dpi, and most phone cameras take twice that. Reducing to that size usually halves the file with no visible loss on paper.
Questions before you send it
Can I mix page sizes in one PDF?expand_more
Does the PDF contain searchable text?expand_more
Why is the PDF bigger than my photos together?expand_more
Can I put two photos on one page?expand_more
Is the order I see the order in the file?expand_more
Does the file leave my computer?expand_more
Six photos, one document
Put them in order, choose A4, download. The recipient opens one file, not a chat thread.
fact_checkQuick facts
- Each photo is embedded as an image, so the PDF is roughly the sum of the photos, not of the pages.
- A4 at 300 dpi is 2,480 × 3,508 pixels; a smaller photo is placed at its own resolution and enlarged by the printer, not by the PDF.
- A PDF describes every element by its position on the page, which is why it looks identical everywhere and why its text does not reflow.menu_bookAdobe
- PDF 2.0 permits AES-256 encryption for the password that protects a document, while older files may use 40-bit RC4.menu_bookAdobe
- JPEG splits the picture into 8×8 pixel blocks and stores a discrete cosine transform of each block, which is where its block-shaped artefacts come from.menu_bookITU-T
helpQuestions people ask
How do I combine several photos into one PDF?expand_more
What page size should I use for a scanned document?expand_more
Why is my image-based PDF so large?expand_more
hubWhat this page is about
- PDFopen_in_new
The Portable Document Format, standardised as ISO 32000 and documented by Adobe in the PDF 1.7 reference, that fixes the layout of a page.
- JPEGopen_in_new
A lossy still-image format standardised as ITU-T T.81 in 1992 and still the default format of most cameras and phones.
- ICC colour profileopen_in_new
A file that describes how the colours of an image map to a device, defined by the International Color Consortium.
library_booksOfficial sources cited on this page
Continue with the same file
Each of these opens what the tool above produces. Use “Use in another tool” under the result to carry the file over — it moves from tab to tab inside your browser, never to a server.
Switched-off tools are not listed here: only what works right now.