Images to PDF

Combine photos and scans into a single ordered PDF. Built in your browser, so the images never leave your device.

Combine images into a PDF

Add photos or scans, put them in the order you want, and get one PDF. Everything is assembled in your browser.

Why this is the one people photograph their documents for

Almost every form that asks for a PDF is really asking for photographs of paper. A landlord wants three months of bank statements, a visa application wants every page of a passport, an insurer wants the receipts, a university wants the certificates. The source material is a camera roll, and the required output is one document in a fixed order.

That makes this an unusually sensitive conversion. The images involved are identity documents and financial records more often than they are holiday photos, and the person doing the converting is usually in a hurry because a deadline is attached. It is a bad combination for judgement, and the default suggestion is to upload the lot to whichever site ranks first.

Nothing about the task requires a server. Embedding a JPEG in a PDF is a matter of writing the bytes into an object and pointing a page at it, which is why this page can do it with the file staying exactly where it already was.

JPEG goes in untouched, and why that is worth knowing

PDF can carry JPEG data natively. When you add a photo from a phone or camera, its bytes are copied into the document unchanged rather than decoded and re-encoded, so there is no generational quality loss and no size inflation. A 4 MB photo contributes roughly 4 MB to the PDF, and looks exactly as it did.

Other formats have no such shortcut. A PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF or HEIC has to be decoded and written back out as JPEG to live inside the document. For photographs that is invisible. For a screenshot of text it is the one case where you might notice softening around the letterforms, because JPEG was designed for photographs and handles hard edges least gracefully.

HEIC, and the format your phone actually uses

Since iOS 11 an iPhone stores photos as HEIC by default. It is a better format than JPEG on almost every technical measure, and it is supported by strikingly little software, which is why so many people discover it exists only when something refuses to open their pictures.

This page decodes HEIC through the same path the rest of the site uses, so the photos you are most likely to need in a PDF are handled rather than rejected. You do not have to convert them to JPEG first and then combine the results.

Order is not what you clicked

When you multi-select files, the browser hands them over in its own order, which is usually alphabetical by filename rather than the sequence you clicked them in. For camera files named IMG_0412 through IMG_0418 those coincide. For scans named front, back and inside they emphatically do not.

The numbered list on this page always shows the order the pages will appear in, and the arrows move an image without re-adding it. Checking that list takes a moment and saves rebuilding the document after discovering page three is at the end.

Images to PDF FAQ

Are my photos uploaded to make the PDF?

No. The document is assembled by code running on your own device and handed straight to your browser's downloads. This matters because of what people usually combine into a PDF: passport pages, bank statements, medical letters, signed contracts, receipts for a claim. Those are precisely the documents where uploading a batch to an unknown server is the worst option, and it is the option most tools offer.

Which image formats can I combine?

Everything the rest of the site can decode: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, TIFF and HEIC. HEIC matters in particular because it is what an iPhone produces by default, so the photos people most often need to turn into a PDF are exactly the ones a lot of tools reject.

What does “Fit page to image” do differently?

A4 and Letter place each image on a fixed page with margins, which is what you want when the PDF will be printed or filed. Fit page to image makes every page exactly the size of its image instead, producing a PDF of pictures rather than pictures on pages. That is usually the right choice for screenshots and scans, where a surrounding white border adds nothing.

Will my images be recompressed?

JPEGs are embedded byte for byte, so a photo straight from a camera or phone goes in untouched at its original quality and size. Other formats have to be re-encoded to fit in a PDF, and are converted to high-quality JPEG in the process. A PNG screenshot of text is the one case where that is visible on close inspection, so if you need pixel-exact text, keep the PNG alongside the PDF.

Can I change the page order after adding images?

Yes. Each image has up and down controls, and the numbered list always shows the exact order the pages will appear in. Files are added in the order your browser hands them over, which for a multi-select is usually alphabetical rather than the order you clicked, so it is worth checking before you build.

Is there a limit on how many images?

No limit imposed by us, because there is no server to impose one. The practical ceiling is your device's memory, since each image is decoded before being embedded. Dozens of photos are fine on a normal laptop; several hundred large ones may not be.