How to Convert JPG Photos to PDF

Many forms, portals and offices accept documents only as PDF. A PDF also keeps several pages together in the right order, which a set of loose photos does not. Receipts for an expense claim, pages of a signed contract, ID documents and homework assignments are all easier to send as one PDF.

Images to PDF runs in your browser, so photos stay on your device while the PDF is created.

1. Open Images to PDF and select one or more JPG or PNG images.
2. Drag the images into the order they should appear in the PDF.
3. Choose a page size: Fit, A4 or US Letter.
4. Pick portrait or landscape orientation, and a margin if you plan to print.
5. Leave Merge all images in one PDF file enabled to get a single document.
6. Create the PDF and download it.

The page size affects how the PDF looks and prints.

• Fit: each page matches its image exactly. Best for screenshots, artwork and photos viewed on screen.
• A4: the standard paper size in most of the world. Best when the PDF will be printed or submitted to an office outside North America.
• US Letter: the standard paper size in the United States and Canada.
• Portrait suits documents and most phone photos; landscape suits wide photos, slides and spreadsheets.

By default, all images are combined into a single PDF, one image per page. Turn off the merge option when you need a separate PDF for each image, for example when a portal wants each receipt uploaded individually.

The PDF can only be as clear as the photos you start with. A few habits make a big difference.

• Photograph documents flat, in even light, without your shadow across the page.
• Crop to the edges of the paper and straighten the image in your photo editor first.
• Hold the phone parallel to the page to avoid a trapezoid-shaped document.
• Use your phone's built-in document scanner, which crops and flattens pages automatically, when you have one.

If you need to add photos to a PDF you already have, use Merge PDF instead. It accepts PDF, JPG, PNG and WebP files together and combines them in the order you choose. To go the other way and turn PDF pages into images, use PDF to JPEG.

Photo-based PDFs can be large. If the result is too big to email or upload, run it through Compress PDF.