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JPG to PDF

Combine photos and scans into one ordered document.

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Your files stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

Instructions

How to jpg to pdf

Three steps, no account, and nothing to install.

  1. Add your images

    Drop in JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC files — the format your phone produced is fine. Add as many as you need in one go.

  2. Set the order

    Drag images into sequence. Photos taken out of order are the normal case, and the order here is the order of the finished document.

  3. Choose page size and orientation

    Fit each image to its own page, or standardise everything to A4 or Letter. Standardising is what makes the document print predictably on someone else’s printer.

  4. Create the PDF

    Build and download the document. One file, in your order, ready to attach.

Overview

About jpg to pdf

Photographs of documents are how most paperwork gets captured now, and they are the worst possible way to send it: a dozen separate attachments, in whatever order the mail client felt like, each one rotated differently. Combining them into a single PDF produces one file that opens in order, prints correctly, and behaves like a document rather than a camera roll.

Capabilities

What it does

  • HEIC includedRecent iPhone photos are handled directly, without a conversion step first.
  • Order you setDrag images into sequence before building, so the document reads correctly the first time.
  • Consistent page sizeStandardise to A4 or Letter so a set of mixed photographs prints as a document rather than a collage.
  • One attachment, not twelveThe recipient opens a single document in the right order instead of a folder of separately named photos.
Reference

About the formats

HEIC, and why it causes trouble
HEIC is the format recent iPhones use by default. It stores the same photo in roughly half the space of a JPG, which is why Apple adopted it, and it is still unsupported by a great many web forms, older Windows installations and business systems. Converting to PDF sidesteps the compatibility question entirely, because a PDF opens everywhere.
What the PDF adds and what it does not
The PDF gives you ordering, consistent page size, one file instead of many, and a format any recipient can open. It does not make the photographs better: resolution, focus and lighting are fixed at the moment of capture, and nothing downstream recovers a page shot at an angle in poor light.
Images stay images
Each photo is embedded as a picture on a page, so the text inside it remains pixels. The document is not searchable and its text cannot be selected or copied. Turning a photographed page into real text requires OCR, which is a separate operation.

Your files stay with you

JPG to PDF runs entirely inside this browser tab. The file you choose is read into your device's memory, processed there, and handed straight back to you — the bytes never cross the network, so there is no upload to intercept, no copy to retain and no retention policy to interpret.

You do not have to take that on trust. Open your browser developer tools, select the Network tab, and use the tool above: no request carries your document.

Answers

JPG to PDF: common questions

Which image formats can I use?
JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC. HEIC matters in practice because it is what recent iPhones produce by default, and it is the format most likely to be rejected by the form you are filling in.
Will my photos lose quality?
Images are placed at their original resolution, so no detail is discarded. A page can only render as well as the photograph behind it, so a blurry or badly lit photo produces a blurry page.
Should I fit each image or use a fixed page size?
Fixed A4 or Letter for anything that will be printed or submitted, so every page matches. Fit-to-image for photographs where the aspect ratio matters more than a uniform page.
Can I add pages later?
Make a second PDF and merge the two. Merging keeps both documents intact and is faster than rebuilding the first one from its images.
Will the text in my photos be searchable?
No. A photograph of a page is an image, and the PDF stores it as one. Making that text searchable requires OCR, which is a different operation from the one this tool performs.
How do I get a good result from a phone photo?
Shoot straight down rather than at an angle, fill the frame with the page, and use even light without a shadow falling across it. Most rejected document photos fail for one of those three reasons, and no amount of processing afterwards recovers a page photographed at a slant.
Is there a limit on how many images I can combine?
No fixed limit. Because the work happens on your device, the practical bound is memory rather than a quota, and a set of a few hundred phone photos is well within an ordinary laptop.
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