JPG to PDF Converter
Combine photos or scans into a single PDF, setting the page order and orientation before you save. The images are read on your device and never uploaded.
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About JPG to PDF
Photographs and scans into a single document — the usual reason being that somebody asked for a PDF and you have five images. Page order and orientation are set before you save, so the result does not need fixing afterwards. Multiple photos can go in at once. This free online converter runs on your device rather than a server, so it builds the document without uploading a single picture, adds no watermark, and puts no account or sign up between you and the finished file.
How to use JPG to PDF
- Add the imagesSeveral at once if you like. Each photograph or scan becomes one page of the finished document.
- Set the order and orientationDrag to reorder; portrait or landscape per page where the image calls for it.
- Save the PDFOne document, built in your browser from images that were never uploaded.
Page size versus image size
A photograph and a page are different shapes, so something has to give: either the image is fitted inside a standard page and gains margins, or the page is made the shape of the image and prints oddly. Fitting to a standard page is the right default for anything that might be printed; sizing the page to the image suits a document that will only ever be read on screen.
Layout choices
Orientation can follow each image or be fixed to portrait or landscape. The page can match the image exactly, or be A4 or US Letter with the image scaled to fit. Margins are none (the default), small at 18 points, or big at 54 points, which is a quarter and three quarters of an inch. These defaults apply to every page, and any page can be given its own setting, rotated, or moved earlier or later before you build the PDF.
Your photos are not re-compressed
Each JPG is placed into the PDF as the original file, byte for byte, rather than decoded and saved again. The pictures in the PDF have exactly the quality they had before, and the PDF is roughly the size of the photos added together.
What it does not do
- The output contains pictures of text, not text. A scanned page becomes an image in a PDF and is not searchable — that needs optical character recognition, which this does not do.
- Large photographs make large PDFs. Compressing the images first, or the PDF afterwards, is usually worthwhile.
- Only JPG and JPEG files are accepted, and each one is checked to be a real JPEG. For PNG images, use PNG to PDF.
JPG to PDF: questions people ask
- Will the text in my scans be searchable?
- No. The scan is placed as an image, so the PDF contains a picture of the words rather than the words. Making it searchable requires OCR, which is a different operation.
- How do I keep the file small?
- Compress the images before building the PDF, or compress the PDF afterwards. A modern phone photograph is several megabytes, and ten of them make a document nobody can email.
- Can I convert several JPG images into one PDF?
- Yes. Add all the photos, drag them into the order you want, set the page size and orientation, and they are saved together as one PDF. For PNG images use the PNG to PDF tool.
- Does converting JPG to PDF lose quality?
- No. The JPG files are embedded unchanged, so every pixel is the one in your original photo. If the result is too large, compress the PDF afterwards and choose how much detail to give up there.
- Can I make the PDF without white borders?
- Yes. With Fit to image and no margin, both of which are the defaults, each page is exactly the size of its photo and there is no border at all. Choose A4 or Letter only if the PDF has to print on standard paper.
Questions about ToolsVerse itself — privacy, cost, what happens to your files — are answered in the frequently asked questions.
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