Turn photos, scans and screenshots into a single PDF, one image per page. Put them in order, rotate any that are sideways, choose a paper size, and download the PDF. Your images are never uploaded.
JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF and iPhone HEIC photos. Each image becomes one page. Your images stay on your device.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type or upload is sent to a server.
What happens to each image
A PDF can carry a JPEG exactly as it is. The same compressed data your camera wrote goes inside the file, and the viewer decodes it when the page is shown. That is how this converter treats JPEGs, so the picture in the PDF is pixel for pixel the one you started with and the conversion costs no quality at all. PNG images are stored with lossless compression and keep any transparency, so a logo with a see-through background sits on a white page rather than a black box.
Other formats have no direct home in a PDF. WebP and AVIF are drawn and saved again as high-quality JPEG, or as PNG when they contain transparency. GIF, BMP and TIFF are saved as PNG, so nothing is lost. An iPhone HEIC photo is decoded on your device and becomes a JPEG at 90% quality first, which is visually indistinguishable from the original. Animated GIFs and WebPs contribute their first frame.
Choosing a page size
| Option | Size | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Fit to image | Each page takes the shape of its image | Photo albums, screenshots, anything read on screen |
| A4 | 210 × 297 mm (8.27 × 11.69 in) | Printing and forms almost everywhere outside North America |
| US Letter | 8.5 × 11 in (216 × 279 mm) | Printing and forms in the US, Canada and Mexico |
| US Legal | 8.5 × 14 in (216 × 356 mm) | Contracts and long receipts |
On a paper size, each image is scaled to fill the space inside the margins without being cropped or stretched, and centred. With orientation set to match each image, a landscape photo gets a landscape page and a portrait one gets a portrait page, so neither shrinks to fit the wrong shape. Force portrait when the PDF will be printed and stapled, since a mixed stack is awkward to read on paper.
Fit to image produces pages with no border at all, sized from the resolution stored in the file. A document scanned at 300 dots per inch comes out at its real paper size. Phone photos and screenshots rarely record a meaningful resolution, so they are sized at 96 pixels per inch, where 100% zoom in a PDF viewer shows one image pixel per screen pixel.
Margins matter when printing. Most home printers cannot print the outer 3 to 5 millimetres of a sheet, so with no margin the edges of a full-page image get clipped or the printer quietly shrinks the page. The small margin (a quarter inch) clears that. The large margin leaves room to hole-punch or bind.
Why photos turn up sideways
A phone camera sensor always captures the same way round. When you hold the phone upright, many phones save the photo with its pixels lying on their side and add an EXIF Orientation tag saying the picture should be turned 90 degrees for display. Photo apps and browsers honour the tag. PDF has no such field for an image, and viewers ignore EXIF inside the file, so a converter that simply copies the photo in produces a sideways page.
This tool reads the Orientation tag and turns the image as it places it on the page. The photo appears the way your gallery shows it, and its pixels are still never re-compressed.
If a page still faces the wrong way, it is usually a scan or screenshot that was captured sideways in the first place. The rotate buttons turn it in quarter turns, and the thumbnail shows the result before anything is made.
Keeping the file small enough to send
Because photos go in untouched, the PDF is roughly the sum of the image files. Twenty phone photos can easily make a 60 MB document. Many mail services cap a message at 20 to 25 MB, and attachments grow by about a third in transit because of the way email encodes them, so a PDF over about 15 MB may bounce. Upload portals for job applications, visas and insurance claims often set lower limits still.
The Smaller file option is built for this. Anything larger than 2,000 pixels on its long side is scaled down to that size and saved as an 85% quality JPEG. At letter size that is still about 180 pixels per inch, sharp enough to read fine print, and a typical phone photo drops from several megabytes to a few hundred kilobytes. If you need finer control over each image first, the image compressor can shrink photos to an exact target size.
Photographing documents for a clean PDF
- Shoot straight down with the page flat, so the text is not wider at the bottom than the top.
- Use even daylight rather than the flash, which leaves a bright spot in the middle of glossy paper.
- Fill the frame with the page. A small page in a large photo prints small.
- Take the pages in order. Phone file names count up, so Sort by name puts them back in sequence however they were picked.
What is left out of the PDF
Phone photos usually carry GPS coordinates, the date and time, and the make and model of the camera. None of that is copied into the PDF. For JPEGs the metadata sections are removed and the image data is kept, and every other format is re-drawn without it. To see what a photo would have revealed, open it in the photo metadata remover. To go the other way and turn a PDF back into pictures, use PDF to JPG. To join this PDF with others, use PDF Merge & Split, and to convert iPhone photos without making a PDF at all, use HEIC to JPG.
