Your images go in untouched
Most online converters decode each photo and compress it again while building the PDF, so the pictures inside come out softer than the originals. This tool doesn't. A JPG is placed into the PDF exactly as it is — the same bytes, so the same quality — and a PNG is stored without loss. The finished PDF is roughly the size of the images added together, plus a few kilobytes.
If the PDF needs to be smaller, for an upload form with a size limit, shrink the images first with the image compressor on this site and then add them here. Doing it in that order lets you see the quality you are getting before it is locked inside a PDF.
Page size, margins and orientation
| Setting | What it does | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| US Letter or A4 | Standard paper page, image scaled to fit inside the margins | Printing, emailing documents, job and visa applications |
| US Legal, A5 | Longer or smaller paper sizes | Legal paperwork, booklets, notes |
| Same size as each image | Every page matches its picture, no borders | Portfolios and PDFs viewed on screen |
| Orientation: Match each image | Landscape pages for wide images, portrait for tall ones | Mixed photos where each should fill its page |
| Margin | White space between the image and the page edge | Printers that cut off the edges; a cleaner look |
Images are always placed whole and centred. Nothing is cropped or stretched: a photo with a different shape from the page simply gets white space on two sides. The page size starts at US Letter for browsers set to US or Canadian English and at A4 for everyone else, and the tool remembers what you pick next time.
Sideways phone photos, fixed
Phones usually store a photo in whatever orientation the camera sensor had and add a small EXIF tag that says which way is up. Your gallery app reads the tag, so the photo looks right — but PDF readers ignore it, and a converter that copies the JPG straight in produces a page with the picture lying on its side. This tool reads the tag and rotates or mirrors the image on the page to match what you see on your phone, still without re-compressing it.
Put the pages in order
The order in the list is the page order. Move an image with its arrow buttons, drag it
by the handle, or press Sort by name. Sorting understands numbers the
way people do, so scan-2.jpg comes before scan-10.jpg —
handy for photos straight from a phone or a scanner, which are numbered in the order they
were taken. Every change rebuilds the PDF automatically, so the download always matches
the list.
Photographing paper documents? Set the page size to the paper you photographed and a small margin. The pages then print at a sensible size and read like a scan, not a wallpaper-sized photo.
One PDF or one per image
By default everything goes into a single PDF, which is what most applications and email recipients want. Switch Output to A separate PDF for each image when each picture is its own document — for example, several receipts that are filed separately. Each PDF takes its image's file name, and the whole set downloads as one ZIP.
Nothing is uploaded
Many online converters send your images to their servers and promise to delete them after an hour or so. Here, the PDF is assembled inside your browser tab and the images never leave your device — the right way to handle scans of passports, bank statements, signed contracts and anything else you would not hand to a stranger. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit on the number of images.