Turn images into one PDF.

Your files stay on your device

The PDF is written in this page, using your browser’s own processing. The images are not sent to a server, nothing is stored, and there is no account to create. Closing the tab is all the cleanup there is — and unlike the tools here that read a PDF, this one downloads nothing extra at all, because writing a document needs no font tables or encoding maps.

How to use it

1. Drop in your JPG or PNG images, or choose them from your device. Choosing more images adds to the list rather than replacing it.
2. Put them in page order with the arrows. The order in the list is the order in the document, top to bottom.
3. Pick the paper size, the orientation and how much margin you want. The tool then names the file it is about to write and says how many pages it will have and how big each one is.
4. Press Create the PDF and download it.

Up to 30 images and 60 MB in total. Anything that is not a JPG or a PNG is refused by name rather than quietly left out, so the page count is always the number of pictures in the list.

What happens to a picture that is not the shape of the page

A photograph is usually 3:2 and A4 is not, so something has to give. There are only three honest answers — stretch the picture, crop it, or leave some of the page empty — and this tool always takes the last one.

Each image is placed as large as it will go inside the margins, centred, keeping its own proportions. Nothing is stretched, because a stretch is invisible in a thumbnail and obvious on a face, and nothing is cropped, because the edge of a scan is where the signature and the total usually are. The cost is white space at two edges, which you can see and can change by choosing a different paper size or orientation.

A picture smaller than the space is not blown up past its own pixels either. A small scan enlarged to fill a page looks soft, and it would look like this tool had lost quality that was never there.

Paper size, orientation and margin

• Paper size — A4 is the standard nearly everywhere outside North America, Letter is the US and Canadian one, and Legal is longer, for contracts and forms.
• Orientation — portrait or landscape for every page, or Match each image, which turns each page to the shape of the picture on it. That is the one to use for a folder of photographs, where forcing one orientation puts wide bars down the side of half of them.
• Margin — white space kept clear on all four sides. None fills the page edge to edge, which is what you want for scanned pages that were already the right size; the larger ones leave room to punch, bind or write on.

What you get, and what you do not

You get one PDF with one picture per page, which is exactly what an email attachment, a printed handout or an upload form usually wants instead of eleven separate files.

What you do not get is text. A PDF made of pictures contains pictures: you cannot search it, select from it or copy out of it, and this tool does not create a text layer. That is worth knowing before you turn a stack of scanned invoices into a document — if the words are the point, Extract Text from PDF reads the text a PDF already has, and the scanned-PDF guide covers what to do when a document is a picture rather than text.

Related guides and tools

PDF to Images does the opposite job, turning the pages of a PDF back into JPGs or PNGs. Merge PDF joins a document made here to PDFs you already have, and Split PDF separates one again by page range. If the pictures are receipts, turning receipts into a spreadsheet covers what to do with them next. All the utilities are on the free PDF tools page.