Convert JPG to PDF
Drop in your JPGs, put them in order, and download one PDF. The document is put together in this tab, so the photos are never uploaded.
The pages appear here once you add pictures.
How to use it#
- Drop your JPG or JPEG files into the box above. Add more at any time.
- Move them into order with the arrows on each row.
- Choose a page size and a margin.
- The PDF is made as you go, so press Download PDF to save it.
Your JPGs are not re-compressed#
A PDF can hold a JPEG file as it is, so each photo goes into the document byte for byte. Nothing is decoded and saved again, which means no second round of compression and no loss of quality. The PDF comes out about the size of the photos added together.
That also means the PDF cannot come out smaller than the photos. If it has to fit an upload limit, shrink the JPGs first with the image compressor, or aim for an exact size with compress to size, then bring them back here.
Photos of paper documents#
Most JPG to PDF jobs are pages photographed with a phone: a signed form, a lease, a receipt, a doctor’s note. For those, choose A4 or US Letter. Every page then comes out the same size, which is what an office printer and most online forms expect, and each photo is scaled to fit inside the margin. The words on a photographed page are part of the picture, so to search or copy them, run the finished PDF through PDF OCR.
Fit the image does something different. It makes each page the size of its photo, one point per pixel, so a 12 megapixel phone photo becomes a page about 56 inches wide. That looks fine on screen, since viewers zoom to fit, but it prints at whatever scale the printer decides.
Portrait photos stay upright#
A phone usually saves a portrait photo as a landscape picture with a note saying to turn it a quarter. A PDF knows nothing of that note, so unless the page turns the photo to match, the photo ends up on its side, or squashed into a page the wrong shape.
This tool reads the note and turns the photo on the page, so it comes out the way your phone shows it. The JPEG itself is still not re-compressed; only the page is turned. The rare mirrored photo, which a plain turn cannot fix, is redrawn instead.
Frequently asked questions#
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
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No. The PDF is built in this tab by your own browser, and nothing is sent to a server. That matters most when the photos are of a passport, a bank letter, or anything else you would not hand to a stranger.
Does converting JPG to PDF lose quality?
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No. Each JPEG is placed in the PDF exactly as it is, with no new compression. What you see in the PDF is the photo you took, at its full resolution.
Does the PDF carry my photo’s location?
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It can. Each JPEG goes in whole, and that includes whatever the camera stored inside it: often the date and, on a phone, the place it was taken. A PDF reader does not show those, but anyone who pulls the photo out of the document can read them. To leave them behind, put the photo through the image compressor first, which writes a fresh file with no metadata, and make the PDF from that.
Can I put several JPGs into one PDF?
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Yes, as many as you like. Each photo becomes one page, in the order shown in the list. The number in front of each name is its page number, and the arrows move it up or down.
Is JPEG different from JPG?
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No. They are the same format, and the extension is a naming habit. A .jfif file, which Windows sometimes saves from a web page, is a JPEG too. Files ending in .jpg, .jpeg, or .jfif are all accepted, and so is a renamed JPEG, since the tool reads what the file is rather than trusting its name.
Can I scan a document to PDF with my phone?
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Yes. Open this page in your phone’s browser and tap the box: besides choosing photos from your library, the phone offers to take one with the camera. Each photo becomes a page, so photograph a form one page at a time and download them as one PDF. Photos go in as taken, without cropping or straightening, so hold the phone square over the page in good light. Choose A4 or US Letter for a file that prints at a normal size.
Can I mix in other kinds of image?
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Yes. PNG, HEIC, WebP, GIF, and AVIF can go in the same list. PNGs are kept lossless, and the others are converted to JPEG on the way in, since a PDF cannot hold them. For a batch of screenshots, PNG to PDF explains what to expect.
How do I get the JPGs back out of a PDF?
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Use PDF to JPG, which draws each page as an image. For photos that went in as JPEGs, extract images from PDF hands back the original files without drawing anything again.