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Select several JPG/PNG files at once — each becomes a page, in the order you add them. Nothing is uploaded.About this tool
This free Image to PDF tool turns JPG and PNG images into one PDF. Each image becomes a page, in the order you add them — ideal for sending photographed documents, receipts or scans as a single file.
Everything runs in your browser — your images are never uploaded to a server. No watermark, no page limit, no account.
Why a PDF instead of loose images
Sending ten photos of a document is a small act of rudeness that most people commit without thinking. A PDF fixes several problems at once.
Order is fixed. Attached images arrive in whatever sequence the mail client decides, and the recipient has to work out the right one. PDF pages are in the order you set, permanently.
It opens as one thing. The reader clicks once and scrolls, rather than opening ten files and arranging windows.
It survives the trip. Email clients and upload forms handle a single PDF predictably. Ten images get compressed, resized, reordered, or rejected for exceeding an attachment count.
Most forms demand it. Visa applications, job portals, insurance claims, tax filings, bank onboarding — almost all specify PDF, and many accept nothing else.
It looks deliberate. A photographed contract sent as one tidy PDF reads as competent. The same pages as loose phone snaps do not.
Photographing a document so it does not look terrible
Most images that end up in a PDF are phone photos of paper. A few habits make an enormous difference:
- Light from the side, not behind you. Standing between the light and the page puts your shadow on the document. A window to one side works well.
- Shoot straight down. Photographing at an angle makes the page a trapezoid. Hold the phone parallel to the paper.
- Fill the frame. Get close enough that the page nearly fills the shot. Cropping later throws away resolution.
- Flatten the page. A curled sheet casts shadows across the text. Weigh the corners down.
- Plain, contrasting background. A dark table under a white page makes the edges obvious.
- Check it is readable before you leave. Zoom in on the smallest text. If you cannot read it, neither can the recipient.
- Avoid flash on glossy paper — it produces a bright spot that erases part of the text.
If the result still looks poor, Crop Image will straighten the edges before you build the PDF.
Getting the page order right
Pages appear in the order the images are added, so add them in the order you want them read.
The usual cause of a shuffled document is selecting many files at once. Browsers do not reliably hand over a multi-selection in the order shown on screen, and phone galleries often sort by capture time rather than by name.
Two reliable fixes: add the files one at a time when the sequence matters, or name them with zero-padded numbers — 01, 02, … 10 rather than 1, 2, … 10, which almost every system sorts as 1, 10, 2.
To rearrange pages after the PDF exists, use Organize PDF.
The text will not be searchable
Worth knowing before you send something important.
A photograph of a page is a picture of text, not text. The PDF contains an image, so you cannot select a sentence, search for a word, or copy a paragraph out of it. To your computer it is a rectangle of coloured pixels that happens to look like writing.
Most of the time this does not matter. When it does — a long contract someone needs to search, a document that must be machine-readable, an accessibility requirement — you need OCR, which recognises the characters and adds a real text layer. Use Image to Text to extract the words, or produce the document from the original file rather than from a photograph where possible.
For the same reason, a screen reader cannot read a photographed document aloud. If the recipient may rely on one, send the original file.
How to use it
- Add images — click the upload area or drag and drop JPG/PNG files (add as many as you like)
- Create PDF — click the button to build the document
- Download — save your PDF
Good to know
- Resize before converting. A 12-megapixel photo of an A4 page is far more detail than any reader needs; 150–200 DPI equivalent is plenty for text.
- PNG transparency becomes white. PDF pages are opaque, so transparent areas are filled.
- Mixed image sizes give mixed page sizes. For a uniform document, crop or resize the images to matching dimensions first.
- Rotate before adding. A sideways photo makes a sideways page.
- Check the result before sending, especially that every page is present and the right way up.
- Nothing is uploaded — which matters, since these are so often passports, bank statements and signed contracts.
Common questions
Are my images uploaded to a server?
No. The PDF is built entirely inside your browser on your own device, so nothing is transmitted and nothing is stored. This matters more here than on most tools, because the images people convert are so often identity documents, bank statements, medical letters and signed contracts.
How do I control the order of the pages?
Images become pages in the order you add them. If sequence matters, add them one at a time rather than selecting several together — browsers do not reliably pass a multiple selection in the order displayed, and phone galleries often sort by capture time. Naming files with zero-padded numbers keeps them sorting correctly everywhere.
Will the text in my PDF be searchable?
No. A photograph of a page is a picture, so the PDF contains an image rather than text — you cannot search it, select it or copy from it. Making it searchable requires OCR, which recognises the characters and adds a text layer. Use the Image to Text tool if you need the words themselves.
Is there a limit on how many images I can add?
None imposed by us. There is no server doing the work, so there is nothing to cap. The practical limit is your device's memory: dozens of pages are fine on a normal computer, while a very large batch of full-resolution photos may be too much for an older phone.
Why is my PDF so large?
Because it contains the images at their original resolution, and modern phone photos are big. A 12-megapixel photograph of a sheet of A4 is far more detail than anyone reading it needs. Resize the images to around 150–200 DPI equivalent before converting, or compress the finished PDF, to get it under a typical email attachment limit.
Can I mix JPG and PNG in the same PDF?
Yes, and you can mix sizes and orientations too. Each image becomes its own page at its own dimensions, so the result may contain pages of different sizes. If you want a uniform document, crop or resize the images to matching dimensions before converting.
What happens to a transparent PNG?
The transparent areas become white. PDF pages are opaque and have no alpha channel, so transparency has to be filled with something. If the image was designed to sit on a coloured background, flatten it onto that colour before converting.
Related tools
- PDF to JPG — the opposite direction, turning pages back into images
- Compress PDF — shrink the result so it will send by email
- Merge PDF — add the new PDF to other documents
- Image to Text — pull the words out of a photographed page
