Turn images into a PDF, one page per picture

Arrange the pictures in the order you want and get back one PDF with one picture per page. A JPEG that is already a JPEG is embedded byte for byte rather than decoded and saved again: re-encoding a photograph loses a little quality every time and often makes the file larger as well. Anything that is not a JPEG is embedded losslessly, so a screenshot’s text stays crisp and a logo keeps its transparency.

It does not read the pictures. The result has an image on every page and no text layer, so nothing in it is searchable or selectable — the OCR check will confirm exactly that.

Make a PDF from images

No account. Your upload is deleted after 2 hours, the result after 24 hours.

How it works

  1. Add the pictures in the order you want them. Up to a hundred, and the order in the list is the order of the pages. Number the files 01, 02, 03 before you pick them, or your file picker will hand them over with 10 before 2.
  2. Choose the shape of the pages. ‘Fit the picture’ gives each page the picture’s own shape and wastes no paper. A4 or Letter is for a document that will be printed on real sheets alongside other things.
  3. Download the PDF. One file, one page per picture, named after the first image. If it is going by email and the photographs came off a modern phone, run it through compress afterwards.

What the options do

The form above lists the options this tool is running today, straight from the server. This is what they are for.

Page size
‘Fit the picture’ makes every page exactly the shape of the image on it: nothing is cropped, nothing floats in white space, and pages may differ from one another. A4 and Letter make every page that paper size and centre the picture inside it at the largest size that fits. Choose paper when the result will be printed or bound with other documents, and fit for anything that will only be looked at on a screen.
Orientation
Only applies to A4 and Letter, because a fitted page already has the picture’s shape. ‘Match each picture’ turns the page landscape for a landscape photograph and portrait for a portrait one, which is what you want for a mixed set. Forcing one orientation is for a document that has to be uniform — a bundle where every sheet must be portrait, for instance.
Margin (mm)
White space on all four sides of the picture. Zero gives an edge-to-edge photograph. Ten to fifteen millimetres is worth setting when the pages will be printed and stapled or hole-punched, because a desktop printer cannot print to the edge of the sheet and will otherwise scale your page down to cope.

What this tool does not do

  • It does not read the pictures. The result has an image on every page and no text layer, so nothing in it is searchable or selectable — the OCR check will confirm exactly that.
  • Pictures are never enlarged past their natural size on a fitted page, because an enlarged photograph looks like a mistake.
  • It puts one picture on a page. For four to a sheet, convert first and then use N-up, which lets you choose the arrangement.
  • It does not straighten, crop, rotate or clean up the images. Deskew and rotate work on the PDF afterwards.
  • The formats accepted are JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and WebP. HEIC photographs straight off an iPhone and multi-page TIFFs are not among them.
  • An animated GIF contributes a single frame rather than an animation.

What happens to your file

The file is uploaded because JPG to PDF runs on our server rather than in the browser tab. It is kept for at most 2 hours and the result you download for 24 hours, then a scheduled job deletes both — a job has to be able to read the file while it runs, and you have to be able to retry a failed conversion without re-uploading. Neither needs longer.

Nothing about the contents is logged, and no one reads your documents. The retention page lists the same numbers the code enforces, and the privacy policy says who can reach the storage they sit in.

Questions

Will converting lose quality from my photographs?
Not for JPEGs: they go into the document exactly as they are, without being decoded and saved again. PNG, GIF, BMP and WebP images are embedded losslessly. The PDF is as good as the pictures you put into it.
Why is the PDF as large as all my photos added together?
Because it contains all of them at full size — nothing was thrown away. Run the result through compress and set a dpi ceiling if the file has to go by email.
What order will the pages come out in?
The order the files sit in the list. File pickers sort names as text, so 10 comes before 2 unless the numbers are zero-padded; rename them 01, 02, 03 first when the order matters.
Can I put four photos on one page?
Not in this tool. Convert them one per page and then use N-up to put four pages onto a sheet — the result is the same and you get to choose the layout.
Are HEIC photos from an iPhone accepted?
No. The accepted formats are JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and WebP. An iPhone can be set to shoot JPEG in the camera settings, and the Photos app exports JPEG when you share a copy.
Can I have A4 pages with no white bars down the sides?
Not while keeping the whole picture: a photograph is not A4-shaped, so fitting it inside A4 leaves space at two edges. Use ‘fit the picture’ if the white space is what bothers you, or crop the images to the paper’s proportions first.