How to convert JPG to PDF
- Add your JPG photos to the dropzone, or press Browse files to select several.
- Put them in the right order using the arrows beside each file name.
- Choose the paper size and orientation, then decide whether to fit with a margin or fill the page.
- Press Create PDF and wait for the document to build.
- Download the finished PDF.
What this converter does
- Places up to forty images on their own pages in a single document.
- Lets you reorder photographs before building rather than relying on file names.
- Offers A4, Letter, A5 and A3 in portrait or landscape.
- Fits each image inside the margin without distorting it, or fills the page when you prefer.
- Embeds the JPEG data directly, so no quality is lost re-encoding it.
- Never uploads the photographs, which matters for documents and ID scans.
Photographs of paperwork want to be one document
Phones have replaced scanners for most everyday paperwork. The result is a camera roll containing four photographs of a signed contract, three of a utility bill and two of a receipt, files that mean nothing individually and are awkward to send together. Turning them into a PDF makes the set a document: one attachment, in order, that opens the same way on every device.
It also makes the material look considered. An insurance claim submitted as one PDF reads as organised; the same photographs attached loose to an email read as a shoebox.
Where this gets used
- Expense claims combining photographed receipts into a single submission.
- Rental and mortgage applications where scans of ID and proof of address must arrive together.
- Coursework and portfolios that have to be uploaded as one file.
- Handwritten notes and whiteboards photographed after a meeting.
- Product photography assembled into a simple catalogue for a customer.
Fit or fill, and why fit usually wins
Fitting places each photograph inside the page with your chosen margin, scaled to keep its proportions. Nothing is distorted and nothing is cut off, which is what you want for anything containing text. A stretched document photograph is unpleasant to read and looks careless.
Filling stretches the image to the page edges. It suits photographs used as full-bleed illustrations, where composition matters more than fidelity, and it is the wrong choice for paperwork. The margin control only applies when fitting, and 28 points, about a centimetre, reads comfortably. Push to 72 points for a full inch if the document will be printed and bound.
Photograph the paperwork properly first
The PDF can only be as good as the photographs. Shoot straight down rather than at an angle, get even light without a shadow from your own hand, and fill the frame with the page so the resolution goes into the document rather than the tabletop.
If a photograph came out crooked, straighten it with the image rotator before converting, and crop away the surroundings with the image cropper. Both are far easier to do on the image than on the finished PDF.
File size, and what to do about it
Images are embedded at their original resolution, so forty modern phone photographs produce a large PDF, often thirty megabytes or more. That is faithful but frequently impractical for email.
Two routes help. Compress the photographs first with the JPG compressor, or shrink their dimensions with the image resizer; a document photograph rarely needs more than 2000 pixels on its long edge to stay perfectly readable. Alternatively, build the PDF and run it through the PDF compressor. Everything happens locally, so none of your paperwork is uploaded at any stage.