How to use it
- Add your images. Photos from a phone, including HEIC, are fine.
- Use the arrows under each thumbnail to put the pages in order.
- Pick a page size and margin, then choose Create PDF.
Page size options
Same as image makes each page exactly the shape of its picture, with nothing added. It is the neatest choice for photos or for documents you will only view on screen.
A4 and US Letter place each image on a standard sheet, scaled to fit inside the margins without distortion. Choose one of these if the PDF will be printed, or if a form asks for A4 pages. Orientation can follow each image, so a landscape photo gets a landscape page, or you can force all pages one way.
Keeping the PDF a sensible size
Each image goes into the PDF as a high-quality JPG. Twenty full-resolution phone photos can make a 60 MB PDF, which is too big for many email systems and upload forms, which often cap attachments at 10 or 20 MB. If size matters, shrink the images first with the resizer: for an A4 page, around 2000 pixels on the long side is plenty for sharp printing.
Scanned documents
If you photographed paper pages with your phone, crop each one first with the crop tool so the PDF does not include the tabletop. There is more on getting clean, readable scans in our guide to scanning documents.
JPG and PDF compared
| JPG | ||
|---|---|---|
| First released | 1992 | 1993 |
| Compression | Lossy | Document container |
| Transparency | No | Not applicable |
| Animation or pages | No | Multiple pages |
| Best for | Photos for sharing, email and print | Documents to send, print and keep |
| Support | Universal | Universal |
Questions people ask
Can I combine multiple JPGs into one PDF?
Yes. Add as many as you like; each becomes a page, in the order shown.
Is there a page limit?
No fixed limit, but very large PDFs can take a while to build, especially on phones. For more than about 100 photos, resize them first.
Does the PDF have searchable text?
No. The pages are images. Making text searchable needs OCR, which this tool does not do.
Can I use PNG or HEIC files?
Yes. Any image your browser can read, plus HEIC, works. There is also a page for PNG to PDF.