JPG to PDF

🔒 Runs in your browser — files are never uploaded

Turn one or more photos or scans into a single PDF document. Choose a standard page size or let each page match the image. Nothing is uploaded.

How it works
  • Select one or more JPG or PNG images. They are added to the PDF in the order listed.
  • Pick a page size — fit to each image, A4, or US Letter — and a margin if you want white space around the edges.
  • Click Create PDF and the finished document downloads automatically.

The most common reason people need this

Almost every official upload form — visa applications, university admissions, insurance claims, tax portals, HR onboarding — asks for a PDF and refuses a photo. Meanwhile the document itself only exists as pictures taken with a phone. Converting them is the missing step, and it is a step that shouldn't require handing your passport scan or payslip to an unknown server.

This tool builds the PDF in your browser using pdf-lib. Your images are read from disk, embedded into a PDF document in memory, and saved straight to your Downloads folder. Nothing is transmitted.

Choosing a page size

The right choice depends on what happens to the file next:

  • Fit page to each image makes every PDF page exactly the dimensions of the image on it. There are no white borders and nothing is cropped or scaled. This is the right choice for screenshots, receipts, and anything that will only be viewed on screen.
  • A4 or US Letter places each image centred on a standard sheet, scaled down to fit while keeping its proportions. Choose this whenever the document might be printed, or when an upload form specifies a paper size. A4 is standard in India, Europe and most of the world; US Letter in the United States and Canada.

Photos taken in landscape will leave wide bands of white above and below on a portrait page — switching to A4 landscape, or adding a small margin instead, usually looks better.

Getting the page order right

Images are placed in the order shown in the list beneath the picker, which your operating system usually sorts alphabetically. Phone photos named IMG_2024.jpg, IMG_2025.jpg and so on will already be in the order they were taken. For anything else, rename with numeric prefixes — 01-front.jpg, 02-back.jpg — before selecting them.

If your file size comes out too large, compress the images before converting. A modern phone photo is 4–8 MB each, so ten of them make a PDF too big for most upload limits. Run them through Compress Image at around 500 KB first, then build the PDF — the result is usually indistinguishable on screen.

Scans and readability

The text inside a PDF built from photos is part of the image, not selectable characters, so it cannot be searched or copied. That is inherent to converting a picture and is true of every image-to-PDF tool; producing searchable text requires OCR, which is a different operation. For most upload forms this does not matter — a human or a scanner-aware system reads the document either way. What does matter is legibility: photograph documents in even light, square-on rather than at an angle, and check the text is sharp before converting.

Frequently asked questions

Can I put multiple images into one PDF?
Yes. Select as many JPG or PNG files as you like in one go and they will all be placed in a single PDF, one image per page, in the order shown in the file list.
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No. The PDF is assembled by JavaScript in your browser. Your images never leave your device and nothing is stored after you close the tab.
Does it add a watermark?
No. There is no watermark, no signup, and no limit on how many images or how many PDFs you can create.
Which is better, A4 or fit-to-image?
Choose A4 or US Letter if the PDF may be printed or an upload form specifies a paper size. Choose fit-to-image for screenshots and receipts that will only be viewed on screen, since it avoids white borders.
Can I convert PNG files too?
Yes. Both JPG and PNG are supported and can be mixed in the same PDF. PNG transparency is flattened onto white.
My PDF is too big to upload. What can I do?
Compress the images first — most phone photos are several megabytes each. Run them through the Compress Image tool at around 500 KB, then build the PDF from the compressed versions.
Why did I get an error about a progressive JPEG?
A small number of JPGs are saved in progressive format, which the PDF library cannot embed directly. Open the image and re-save it as a standard JPEG or a PNG, then try again.
Can I search or copy the text in the PDF afterwards?
No. The text is part of the image rather than real characters, so it is not selectable or searchable. That is true of any image-to-PDF conversion and would require OCR to change.