Turn receipt photos into one PDF
Paper receipts fade and get lost, so most people photograph them. Expense systems and accountants, however, usually want a PDF rather than a camera roll of separate pictures.
JPG to PDF places each photo on its own page in a single PDF, in the order you add them. The conversion runs in your browser, so the receipts are not uploaded.
For the clearest results, photograph receipts as soon as you get them, before the thermal print fades. Lay them on a dark, plain background so the edges are easy to see, hold the phone directly above rather than at an angle, and avoid flash, which can wash out faint print. One receipt per photo keeps each page readable and makes it simple to remove a single receipt later.
Step by step
- Photograph each receipt flat, in good light, filling most of the frame.
- Open JPG to PDF and add the photos.
- Add them in the order your expense report lists them; pages follow the order of the list.
- Choose an image quality, convert and download the PDF.
Tips
- Lower quality settings give a much smaller PDF and are usually still readable for receipts.
- iPhone photos saved as HEIC can be converted to JPG first with HEIC to JPG.
- Add the receipts PDF to invoices from suppliers with Merge PDF.
Questions
- Can I add PNG screenshots of online receipts?
- The tool accepts common image formats listed on its page; add them alongside your photos.
- Will the amounts be readable?
- If they are clear in the photo, they will be clear in the PDF. Choose a higher quality for very small print.
- Is the text searchable?
- No, the pages are images. Run PDF OCR afterwards if you need to search the text.