Image to PDF for Photos, Receipts, and Scans
Turning several images into one multi-page PDF
Combine images into a PDF with one image on each page. Arrange the input order, choose a page size and orientation, and set margins and the background color. Contain keeps the full image visible, Cover fills the page by cropping, and Stretch can change its proportions. Preview the page fit before exporting a document for printing or sharing.
Cost: Free to use. File size and usage limits apply.
How to convert images to a PDF
Add your images
Click Upload or drop the files onto the tool, up to 200 MB per image. Images that are already in your shared file manager, such as results from other image tools, are preselected when the page opens.
Pick the pages
Under Choose images, click a thumbnail to add it to the PDF or to remove it again. Each selected image becomes one page, and one PDF holds up to 12 images.
Put them in order
The numbered list below the thumbnails is the page order. Use the arrow buttons (Move up, Move down) to change it. New uploads are placed at the top, so check the order before you continue.
Set up the pages
In the Output card, choose Page size, Orientation, Fit, Margin and Background. The preview shows your pages in the order they will appear in the PDF.
Create and download
Click Create PDF, then Download. The PDF is also added to the shared file manager, so the PDF tools on this site can open it without a new upload.
Page settings explained
The pages are built at 150 dpi, so pixel values translate directly to paper: 150 px equals 1 inch (25.4 mm).
- Page size
- A4 (210 × 297 mm, 1241 × 1754 px) is the default. LETTER (8.5 × 11 in, 1275 × 1650 px) and Legal (8.5 × 14 in, 1275 × 2100 px) are the other paper sizes. Auto makes every page exactly as large as its image plus the margin, so pages can differ in size and no pixels are lost. With Auto, Orientation and Fit have no effect.
- Orientation
- Auto (default) decides per image: images wider than they are tall get a landscape page, all others, including square images, a portrait page. A mixed set of photos therefore gives a PDF with mixed orientations. Choose portrait or landscape to give every page the same orientation, which is easier to print.
- Fit
- Controls how each image fills the area inside the margins. contain (default) scales the whole image to fit and enlarges small images. cover fills the area completely and crops the overflow equally from both sides. actual never enlarges: small images keep their pixel size, large ones are shrunk like contain. Images are always centred, and their proportions are never distorted.
- Margin
- 0–160 px, default 36 px (about 6 mm). The margin stays free on all four sides and is filled with the background colour. As a guide, 10 px is about 1.7 mm, so the maximum of 160 px is about 27 mm. Set
0px for pages without a border. - Background
- Default
#FFFFFF(white). The colour fills the margins, the empty space around images whose shape doesn't match the page, and the transparent parts of PNG, WebP or GIF images, which are flattened onto it. The PDF itself has no transparent areas.
Settings for common jobs
Receipts and document photos
A4 or LETTER, orientation Auto, fit contain, 36 px margin. Every page gets a standard paper size with fixed pixel dimensions at 150 dpi, and the whole image remains visible inside the margins. Check the final PDF for small print before sending it.
Photos at full resolution
Auto page size with a 0 px margin. Each page takes the exact pixel size of its photo, so nothing is scaled. A 4032 × 3024 px photo gives a page of about 68 × 51 cm, so use your viewer's fit-to-page option when printing, and expect a large file.
Edge-to-edge pages
cover with a 0 px margin fills the whole page. Whatever doesn't match the page shape is cut off: a 3:4 phone photo on portrait A4 loses about 6% of its width, split between the left and right edges.
Screenshots, logos and small graphics
actual keeps them at their pixel size instead of enlarging them. At 150 dpi, a 600 px wide screenshot is 4 in (about 10 cm) wide on the page. With contain it would be enlarged to the full width inside the margins and look soft.
Sharpness and file size: what 150 dpi pages mean
Your JPG or HEIC files are not embedded as they are. Each image is decoded, turned upright according to its orientation tag, drawn onto a new page image and stored in the PDF with lossless compression. Nothing is compressed as JPEG a second time, so no new compression artifacts appear.
With A4, LETTER or Legal, that page image has a fixed size. Example: a 12-megapixel phone photo of 4032 × 3024 px on A4, with orientation Auto and the default 36 px margin, gets a landscape page of 1754 × 1241 px and is scaled down to 1559 × 1169 px, about 1.8 megapixels. As a rule of thumb, 150 dpi is enough for reading text on screen and on paper, while photo prints usually aim for 300 dpi. If you need every pixel, use Auto.
The PDF's size depends on the page pixels and their content. Uniform areas can compress well; photographs and scans with many variations can produce a larger PDF than the source JPGs. Saving the page without lossy compression does not guarantee a smaller file. With Auto and high-resolution photos, check the actual output size. To use fewer pixels, prepare the images first with Resize Image.
Formats and limits
- Input formats
- JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, ICO, TIFF, TGA, AVIF, HEIC and HEIF. Animated or multi-page files contribute only their first frame or page.
- Output format
- One PDF with one page per image, in the order of the list
- Maximum file size
- 200 MB per image
- Files per job
- 1 to 12 images
- Page resolution
- 150 dpi; with Auto, each page is the image size plus the margin
- Processing
- On our servers with ImageMagick; HEIC and HEIF are decoded with FFmpeg. No external service is involved. A job can run for up to 15 minutes.
- Watermark
- None
- Storage
- Uploads and results are deleted automatically after 48 hours for guests and after 30 days for free accounts. Paid plans can keep files longer.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my PDF so much larger than my photos?
Each page is a new image saved without lossy compression rather than the original compressed JPG. Its size depends on pixels and content, so photographs and scans can grow inside the PDF. A4, LETTER and Legal set fixed page dimensions at 150 dpi; Auto keeps the images' pixel dimensions and can produce very large pages. Compare the actual file size before sharing.
Can I select or search the text in the PDF?
No. Every page is a picture, even when it shows a document. To get the text out, run the finished PDF through PDF OCR.
Are GPS location and camera data included in the PDF?
No. Each image is drawn onto a new, blank page image, so EXIF data such as GPS coordinates, camera model and capture time is not copied into the PDF. The orientation is applied before that, so photos appear upright.
How do I make a PDF from more than 12 images?
Create several PDFs of up to 12 pages each, then join them with Merge PDFs. The new PDFs are already in its file manager, so you don't have to upload them again.
Can I use iPhone HEIC photos?
Yes, and you can mix them with JPG or PNG files in the same PDF. HEIC to PDF offers the same settings but accepts only HEIC and HEIF files.