JPG to PDF Converter

Photos into one PDF, without your photos going anywhere

Most online converters work the same way: you upload your files to a server, the server does the work, and you download the result. This one doesn't. The PDF is built directly in your browser using your device's own processing power. Nothing is transmitted, which is worth understanding because it changes what this tool is good for.

It means the conversion is effectively instant - there's no upload wait, even for fifty photos. It works fine on hotel wifi. And if the images are the kind you'd rather not hand to a stranger's server - your ID, medical scans, photos of your kids, the damage documentation for an insurance claim - they simply never leave your machine. There's nothing for us to delete afterwards because we never had anything.

What you can control

Each image becomes one page, in the order you arrange them - drag the thumbnails around until the sequence is right. Beyond that you get three layout decisions:

• Orientation: portrait or landscape, applied to the whole document. Pick whichever matches most of your photos.
• Page size: Letter by default, with A4, Legal and others in the dropdown. Match it to wherever the PDF might get printed - A4 if it's going to Europe, Letter for the US.
• Margins: from none (image fills the page, good for full-bleed photos) to big (leaves room for hole-punching and notes).

Getting the layout right the first time

The most common layout complaint is landscape photos floating small in the middle of portrait pages. That's geometry, not a bug: a wide photo fitted onto a tall page can only use a fraction of it. If most of your shots are horizontal - and most phone and camera photos are - switch the document to landscape and they'll fill their pages properly.

Margins matter more for printing than for screens. "None" looks best in a PDF viewer; "normal" or bigger survives a printer's non-printable edge without clipping.

The file size question

Your images go into the PDF at essentially the resolution you feed them. Twenty photos straight off a modern phone camera - 3 to 4 MB each - will produce a PDF in the tens of megabytes. That's faithful, but it may be more than an email will accept.

Two ways to handle it. If you already made the big PDF, run it through the compressor and pick the balanced level - image-heavy PDFs are exactly what compression works best on. Or resize the photos before combining them; anything destined for a screen doesn't need more than about 1500 pixels on the long side.

There's no need to redo the whole document if it came out too heavy - just run it through the compressor and pick the balanced level.

Photographed documents deserve extra care

A lot of what goes through this tool isn't photography at all - it's photos OF paper. Receipts for an expense report, a signed form, pages of handwritten notes. That works, but a few habits make the result dramatically more readable.

Shoot from directly above, not at an angle, so the page isn't a trapezoid. Use daylight or a desk lamp from the side rather than the ceiling light that puts your phone's shadow across the page. And crop each photo to just the paper before combining - your camera app does this in seconds, and it's the difference between a document and a picture of a document on a table next to your coffee.

If you do this regularly - weekly expense reports, say - a dedicated scanning app with automatic edge detection will serve you better for the capture step. This tool still does the combining either way.

What people actually build with this

Expense reports lead the pack: a month of crumpled receipts photographed and combined into one PDF is exactly the format finance teams ask for, and it beats mailing an envelope of paper by every measure. Applications come second - trade portfolios, before-and-after work photos, property condition reports - anywhere a fixed page order and a single file make you look organised.

And then there's the classic: someone asks for "one PDF, please" and refuses to elaborate. Universities, visa offices, and insurance portals all seem to share this preference. Now you can oblige them in under a minute.

A real example

Moving out of a rental? Photograph every room, every scuff, every meter reading - say 15 shots. Drop them in here in walk-through order, kitchen to bathroom, pick A4 with normal margins so the agent can print it, and send one file named handover-photos.pdf. It reads as documentation. Fifteen loose attachments read as a mess, and mess is how deposit disputes start.

iPhone photos refusing to load?

Recent iPhones save photos as HEIC, which browsers can't reliably read, so those files won't appear in the preview. It's a two-minute fix and afterwards everything works as normal.

Just convert the HEIC files to JPG first, then bring the JPGs back here.

Going the other direction

Received a PDF and need the pictures out of it instead? You can turn a PDF back into images - the exact reverse of this tool.

One honest note on quality: images are re-encoded as they're placed onto pages, at a high quality setting. On photographs the difference isn't visible. If you're combining screenshots with fine text and want them pixel-perfect, zoom in on the result once before sending - and keep your originals either way.