How to convert JPG to PDF

Why turn images into a PDF

Forms, landlords, employers and online portals often ask for a single PDF, while what you have is a handful of phone photos of receipts, an ID card or a signed page. Putting them into one PDF keeps the pages together in the right order and opens the same way on every device.

If your photos came from an iPhone and are in HEIC format, convert them first with HEIC to JPG; JPG to PDF accepts JPG, PNG and WebP. Screenshots saved as PNG work as they are, with no extra step.

Step by step

1. 1Open JPG to PDF and add your images. They are processed in your browser and not uploaded.
2. 2Check the queue: it sets the page order. Remove an image and add it again to move it to the end.
3. 3Pick an image quality. Standard keeps the file small; Maximum keeps more detail for photos you may print.
4. 4Convert and download your PDF.

How the pages look

Each page is sized to its own image, so nothing is stretched or cropped — a portrait photo gives a portrait page and a wide screenshot gives a wide page. Images are embedded as JPEG at the quality you chose.

For documents you photographed, results are best when the page fills most of the frame, is evenly lit and is shot straight on rather than at an angle. Cropping each photo on your phone before adding it makes the finished PDF look much neater.

Doing it on your phone

The tool works the same in Safari on iPhone and Chrome on Android. Tap the upload area and choose Photo Library or Files to pick several images at once; the order you select them in becomes the starting page order. When the PDF is ready, save it to Files or Downloads, or share it straight to an email or messaging app.

Before you send it, open the finished PDF and scroll through every page. It only takes a moment and catches a missing receipt, a duplicate photo or a page that should have come first. If something is wrong, go back, fix the queue and convert again — nothing has been uploaded, so there is nothing to delete afterwards.

Keeping the file small

Modern phone photos are large, so a PDF of ten photos can easily pass an email or upload limit. Standard quality usually helps a lot. If the PDF is still too big, run it through Compress PDF — see compressing a PDF for email for settings that stay readable.

If you already have some pages as PDFs and others as photos, convert the photos first, then join everything with Merge PDF.

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