How to convert JPG to PDF

How to turn several images into one PDF

1. Choose the images. Pick up to 20 JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC files of up to 10 MB each. You can add more from another folder before you convert.
2. Set the page order. The list under the box is the order of the pages. The arrow moves an image up one place and the cross takes it out.
3. Press Convert to PDF. Each image takes a second or two. The next screen shows the page count and the size of the PDF.
4. Download the PDF. Every image is one page, turned the right way up, with nothing added to it.

The converter reads no text, so it costs nothing to run and needs no account. One connection can convert 20 times an hour and 60 times a day.

What the PDF looks like

Pages

One per image, in the order of the list

Orientation

Upright, as the camera recorded it

Page size

A4 on the long side, the short side follows the shape of the image

Sharpness

About 210 dpi on an A4 page, enough to read small print and to print it

Watermark

None

Transparent PNG

Placed on a white page

A photo with more than 50 megapixels is refused, and the message names it. Phone photos stay well below that, so the cap only stops oversized scans and panoramas.

Why turn images into a PDF at all?

Application portals, schools and offices often take PDF uploads and nothing else, and a set of five JPG files is five separate uploads with no fixed order. One PDF keeps every page of a lease, a passport scan or a set of bank statements together, in the order the reader expects.

A PDF also opens the same way on every phone and computer. A JPG sent by email can arrive rotated or shrunk by the mail app, while a PDF page keeps its size and its order.

Other ways to make a PDF from images

On a Mac, select the images in the Finder, Control-click them and choose Quick Actions, then Create PDF[1]. The pages follow the order in which you selected the files[1]. On Windows 10 and 11, the Microsoft Print to PDF printer is built in[2], so you can open an image, print it and pick that printer to save it as a PDF, one file at a time.

The converter on this page works the same in any browser, on Windows, a Mac, a Chromebook or a phone, and it puts many images into one PDF in one step. To shrink a PDF that came out too large for an upload form, use the PDF compressor. To add the result to other PDF files, use merge PDF.

Photos of documents: take them so they read well

• Lay the page flat in daylight or even room light, with no shadow from your hand or phone.
• Hold the phone straight above the page and fill the frame with it, edges included.
• Take one photo per page, so each page of the PDF is one page of the document.
• Zoom in on each photo before you take the next one. A blurred photo stays blurred in the PDF.

Translate the document in your images

A photographed certificate, letter or form is often in a language you don't read. On the result screen, Translate this PDF opens the PDF in the LoreAI app. LoreAI reads it with OCR, stamps and handwriting included, and returns an editable Word file in one of 105 languages, with tables and headings in their places. Your first document is free, up to 3 pages.

For a single page you only want to read, the image translator works straight from the photo. LoreAI is not a certified translation service. Where an office asks for a certified translation, a translator signs a statement for the Word file.

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