The short answer
Drop your photos on the converter below, or tap to choose them from your gallery. Drag them into order, choose the Page size (A4, Letter or Image size), the Orientation and the Margin, then press Create PDF. You get one PDF with one picture per page, ready to email or upload.
JPG and PNG images are placed into the PDF exactly as they are, without being compressed again, so text in a scanned page stays as sharp as in the photo. WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF and SVG are converted once at high quality. A photo taken sideways on a phone is turned upright using the orientation the camera stored in it.
Try it here: JPG to PDF
Open the full tool pagePage size, orientation and margins
A4 (210 by 297 mm) is the standard paper size almost everywhere except North America, where Letter (8.5 by 11 inches) is used. If the PDF goes to an office, a school or a government portal, use the paper size of that country, so it prints without odd scaling. Image size makes each page exactly as large as its picture, which is ideal for screenshots and designs that will only be viewed on screen, but not for printing: a phone photo becomes a page more than a meter wide.
With Automatic orientation each page follows its picture: a landscape photo gets a landscape page and a portrait scan a portrait page, all in the same PDF. Choose Portrait or Landscape to force every page the same way. Images are fitted inside the page and centered; small images are not enlarged, so they do not get blurry.
| Setting | What it does | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| A4 | 210 by 297 mm pages | Documents for Europe, Asia, Latin America and most of the world |
| Letter | 8.5 by 11 inch pages | Documents for the United States and Canada |
| Image size | Page equals the picture | Screenshots, slides, designs viewed on screen |
| Margin: None | Image touches the page edge | Full page scans already cropped to the paper |
| Margin: Small | About 10 mm white border | Most photos and receipts |
| Margin: Large | About 20 mm white border | Pages that will be printed, punched or bound |
On a phone or a computer, step by step
The tool on this page works the same on every device: open it in the browser, add the pictures and press Create PDF. It also keeps working without a connection after the page has loaded once. Each system also has a built in way, which is useful to know:
- iPhone and iPad: in the Notes app or the Files app you can scan documents with the camera, and the result is saved as a PDF. For photos already in your library, the Print option in the Share menu can also save the selected photos as a PDF, although it gives little control over page size and margins.
- Android: Google Drive has a Scan button that creates a PDF from the camera. For existing photos, open them in the gallery, choose Print and select Save as PDF as the printer.
- Windows: select the photos in File Explorer, right click, choose Print and pick Microsoft Print to PDF. The layout options are limited and photos are often cropped to fill the page.
- Mac: select the photos, open them in Preview, arrange the thumbnails in the sidebar and use File, Print, then Save as PDF.
Keeping the PDF small enough to upload
Because the photos are not recompressed, the PDF is about as large as the photos together. A modern phone photo is often 2 to 5 MB, so ten pages can easily reach 30 MB, while many portals and email services limit attachments to 5, 10 or 25 MB.
The fix is to make the photos smaller before you create the PDF, not after. For a document page, around 1600 to 2000 pixels on the long side keeps normal text sharp when printed on A4 (that is roughly 150 to 200 DPI), and a JPG at quality 75 to 80 of that size is usually 200 to 600 KB. Use an image resizer or compressor first, then add the smaller files here. If you already have a large PDF, a PDF compressor can recompress the images inside it.
| Photo per page | Typical size | 10 pages |
|---|---|---|
| Original 12 MP phone photo | 2 to 5 MB | 20 to 50 MB |
| 2000 px long side, JPG quality 80 | about 400 to 700 KB | about 4 to 7 MB |
| 1600 px long side, JPG quality 75 | about 200 to 450 KB | about 2 to 4.5 MB |
Getting scanned pages to look clean
- Photograph documents in daylight or under even light, straight from above, with the page filling most of the frame. Turn off the flash, it creates a bright spot.
- Crop away the table and your fingers before converting. Margin None then gives a page that looks like a real scan.
- Keep the right order before you start: name the files 01, 02, 03 or photograph the pages in sequence and use Sort by name.
- Check every page in the preview. A blurred page is much easier to retake now than after you have sent the file.
- For ID cards, put front and back on separate pages unless the form asks otherwise, and do not add more pages than requested.
Common problems and fixes
- HEIC photos from an iPhone are not accepted: convert them to JPG first, or set the camera to Most Compatible in Settings, Camera, Formats. Photos shared from an iPhone by email or AirDrop to a computer are often converted to JPG automatically.
- A page is upside down or sideways: the photo had no orientation data. Rotate it with an image rotation tool and add it again.
- The pages print with a white border: choose Margin None, but note that most printers cannot print to the very edge anyway.
- The portal says the file is too large: resize the photos as described above and create the PDF again.
- Pages have different sizes in Image size mode: that is expected. Use A4 or Letter if all pages must be the same size.