Turn photos and scans into one PDF.
Add JPEG or PNG images, drag them into order, and download them as a single PDF — one image per page. Useful for sending a set of phone photos of a signed document as one attachment.
Drop in JPEG or PNG files. They are read in the tab and never uploaded. Add as many as you need — each becomes one page.
Drag the rows into the order you want the pages. The position number on the left updates as you rearrange, and the thumbnail confirms you are moving the right one.
Match image gives each page the exact dimensions of its image, so nothing is cropped and nothing is letterboxed. Letter fits every image onto a standard page with a margin, which is what you want if the document will be printed or if the images are inconsistent sizes.
The images are embedded at their original resolution. No re-encoding happens, so a photograph is exactly as sharp in the PDF as it was as a JPEG.
A PDF page is a coordinate space with drawing instructions. Embedding an image adds the image data as an object and one instruction saying where to draw it and at what size. A JPEG is stored as-is, because PDF supports the same compression internally — the bytes are copied across without being decoded and re-encoded. That is why the operation is fast and lossless.
PNG uses lossless compression that PDF also supports, so PNGs are likewise embedded directly. The practical difference is size: a photograph saved as PNG is typically several times larger than the same photograph as JPEG, and that size comes straight through into the PDF. If your source images are photographs saved as PNG, converting them to JPEG first will produce a dramatically smaller document with no visible difference.
With Match image, the page is made the same pixel dimensions as the image, treated as points. A 3000-pixel-wide photograph becomes a very large page that displays fine but prints at an odd size. With Letter, the image is scaled to fit a standard page with a margin, which is what you want for anything going near a printer. Neither option changes the image data — only the frame it sits in.
The size of the finished PDF is almost entirely the size of the embedded image data, and that depends on choices made long before this tool sees the file. A twelve-megapixel phone photograph saved at high JPEG quality is three to five megabytes; the same photograph at quality seventy-five is perhaps a megabyte with no visible difference on screen. The same image saved as PNG can be fifteen megabytes, because PNG is lossless and photographic noise is the worst possible input for lossless compression. Since the bytes are copied into the PDF unchanged, whatever you feed in is what the document weighs. Running images through the resize tool first — two thousand pixels on the long edge, JPEG at around eighty — routinely turns a forty-megabyte document into three or four megabytes that looks identical when read.
Phone cameras record orientation as an EXIF tag rather than rotating the pixels. Some software honours it and some does not, which is why a photograph can appear upright in one application and sideways in another. If a page comes out rotated, open the image, rotate and re-save it so the pixels themselves are the right way up, then rebuild the PDF.
EXIF orientation, as above. Rotate and re-save the source image so the pixels are correct, then rebuild. Alternatively build the PDF and fix it with the rotate tool.
High-resolution photographs, or PNGs that should be JPEGs. Run the images through the resize tool first — two thousand pixels on the long edge is more than enough for screen reading and usually for print.
One of the files is another format, possibly HEIC from an iPhone or WebP from a website, even if the extension says otherwise. Convert with the image resize tool and try again.
Correct, and unavoidable here. The pages are photographs. Searchable text needs optical character recognition, which requires a different kind of tool.
Files do not always arrive from the picker in the order you selected them. Drag the rows before creating the PDF; the numbers on the left are the page numbers you will get.
A dedicated scanner app on a phone does more than this: it detects page edges, corrects perspective so a photograph taken at an angle looks flat, and adjusts contrast so paper reads white. For photographing documents, that is a better result. Use one, then bring the output here if you need to combine it with other files.
This works and costs nothing, but it goes through the print pipeline, which re-renders the image at print resolution and usually enlarges the file. Direct embedding keeps the original data.
Photographs of documents are among the most sensitive things people convert — signed contracts, passports, medical forms. That is exactly the category where sending the file to a server you know nothing about is worth avoiding.
Each page matches its image, so nothing is cropped or letterboxed. Choose Letter to fit every image onto a standard page instead.
JPEG and PNG. Other formats need converting first — the Image Resize tool will do that.
Yes. Drag the rows before generating; pages come out in the order shown.