Convert JPG to PDF

Why send a PDF instead of loose images

A PDF holds your images in a fixed order, in one file, that opens and prints the same way on every device. A folder of photos does none of that: the order depends on how the recipient sorts them, phones may rotate them unpredictably, and email clients often inline them at random sizes.

This is why almost every organisation that accepts documents by upload — landlords, insurers, universities, tax offices, visa services — asks for a PDF even when what you are sending is unmistakably a photograph.

Page size, orientation and order

Pick a page size that matches where the document is going. A4 is the standard nearly everywhere outside North America, Letter is the North American equivalent, and fitting the page to the image keeps photographs edge to edge with no white border — the right choice for a photo book or a portfolio.

Each image becomes one page, in the order the files appear in the list, so drag them into sequence before converting. Portrait and landscape images are placed to fit the page without distortion or cropping.

What people convert to PDF

Photographed documents

Phone photos of a passport, a bill or a signed form, combined into the single PDF an upload portal demands.

Receipts and expenses

A month of receipt photos as one attachment instead of thirty.

ID and application documents

Front and back of a card as two pages of one file.

Portfolios and lookbooks

A set of images in a fixed order that opens identically on any device.

Whiteboards and handwritten notes

Photographed pages assembled into a document you can archive and search by filename.

Getting a readable result from phone photos

The conversion preserves your images faithfully, which cuts both ways: a blurry photo makes a blurry PDF. If the document has to be read by someone else, shoot it flat and evenly lit, fill the frame with the page, and check the photo before converting rather than after.

If the finished PDF is too large to email — several high-resolution phone photos easily reach 20 MB — run it through the PDF compressor afterwards, which shrinks the images while leaving the document structure intact.