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JPG to PDF Converter
Turn one photo or a whole stack of them into a single PDF file, in seconds, without installing anything. Pick JPG, PNG or WEBP photos, choose a page size, and download a ready-to-share PDF. Every photo is processed on your own device: nothing is uploaded to a server, so your files stay private the whole time.
Drag & drop photos here, or browse files
JPG, PNG or WEBP, up to 30 photos. Your files never leave this device.
How to convert JPG to PDF
The converter above does the whole job in your browser. There is nothing to install and no account to create.
- Drag your JPG, PNG or WEBP photos onto the box above, or click it to browse your device.
- Reorder the photos with the ↑ / ↓ buttons if you added more than one: the order you set becomes the page order in the PDF.
- Choose a page size (A4 or US Letter), an orientation, and a margin.
- Press "Convert to PDF" and download the finished file: usually in well under a second per photo.
Why convert a JPG to PDF at all
A JPG is a single image. A PDF is a document: and that difference matters more than it sounds.
- One file instead of many. Five receipt photos become one attachment instead of five, so nothing gets lost in an inbox or a downloads folder.
- Looks identical everywhere. A PDF renders the same on Windows, macOS, iPhone, Android and in a browser: a JPG can be resized, cropped or rotated differently by whatever app opens it.
- Built for printing. PDF is the format printers, copy shops and print-at-home dialogs expect. A stack of loose JPGs prints as separate jobs; a PDF prints as one document, in the right order.
- Expected by forms and portals. Visa applications, expense systems, insurance claims and school admissions routinely ask for "a PDF of the scanned document": not a folder of photos.
- Easier to archive. One dated PDF ("receipts-march-2026.pdf") is easier to find again than a dozen similarly-named photos.
Page size and orientation
Pick the size your printer, portal or reader expects. Both are standard sizes and both are free to use as often as you like.
| Page size | Dimensions | Common where |
|---|---|---|
| A4 | 210 × 297 mm (8.27 × 11.69 in) | Europe, Asia, most of the world outside North America |
| US Letter | 8.5 × 11 in (215.9 × 279.4 mm) | United States, Canada, the Philippines |
Orientation has three options: Auto gives each photo the page shape that matches it (a landscape photo gets a landscape page, a portrait photo gets a portrait page), which is the best default when you are mixing photo shapes in one PDF. Portrait and Landscape force every page to the same shape, which is useful when you want a visually consistent document, for example a set of receipts that should all read the same way when printed.
JPG, PNG or WEBP: which should you upload
All three work in the converter above: pick whichever format your photo is already in, there is no need to convert it first.
| Format | Typical source | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| JPG / JPEG | Phone cameras, downloaded photos | Most common: works directly, no conversion needed first |
| PNG | Screenshots, scans, graphics | Sharper edges for text/screenshots than JPG |
| WEBP | Images saved from the web | Newer web format, handled the same as JPG/PNG here |
Each photo is re-encoded internally as a high-quality JPEG before it is placed on the page: that is what makes it possible to accept all three input formats through one predictable pipeline, and it keeps the resulting PDF file size reasonable even with many photos.
Combine multiple photos into one PDF
Add more than one photo and the converter automatically builds a multi-page PDF, one photo per page, in the order you arrange them. This is the most common reason people search for a JPG to PDF tool in the first place: not converting a single image, but merging several into one document.
A few real examples:
- Photographing six receipts after a work trip, then converting them into one
expenses-march.pdffor a reimbursement form. - Photographing every page of a 12-page contract with a phone, then combining all 12 photos into a single PDF to email instead of sending 12 separate images.
- Turning a handful of screenshots of a webpage into one PDF to save for later, in the order they should be read.
If you need to go the other way (splitting an existing PDF back out into individual JPG images, for example to pull one page out of a scanned document), use the PDF to JPG converter instead. It runs the same way: entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Converting from a phone
This tool works on a phone's browser exactly the way it works on a computer: there is no app to install. If you are specifically looking for the iPhone Camera Roll / Files app workflow, with screenshots of exactly where to tap, see the dedicated guide to converting a photo to PDF on iPhone. The short version: open this page in Safari, tap the box above, choose "Photo Library" or "Choose Files", and pick your photo the same way you would attach one to a text message.
No need to dig through Preview or Edge menus
If you use a Mac, you might already know that Preview can add an image to an existing PDF. The steps are real, but they are buried a few menus deep: open the PDF, show the sidebar, drag the photo into the thumbnail list, then save. This tool skips all of that. Drop your photo above, and you get a finished PDF in a few seconds, no need to open Preview at all.
The same goes for Microsoft Edge. Edge's built-in PDF viewer is good for marking up a document you already have, but turning a fresh photo into its own PDF page is not really what that toolbar is built for. You would end up printing to PDF or hunting for a workaround. Here, you just pick the file and download the result, whichever browser you happen to have open.
And if you were hoping to avoid installing a converter app, there is nothing to install here either. There is no separate program to download, no browser extension to add, and no account to create first. The page itself is the tool.
Your files never leave your device
This is a technical fact, not a marketing line: every step (reading the photo, drawing it onto a page, assembling the PDF) runs inside your browser's own JavaScript engine, using your device's memory. Nothing is sent to a server, because there is no upload step in the code at all. You can confirm this yourself: open your browser's network inspector while converting, and you will see no request leave the page after the initial page load. That also means the tool keeps working if your internet connection drops mid-conversion, and there is no file size limit imposed by an upload quota: only the memory available on your own device.
For the full picture of what does and does not happen with your data, see the privacy policy.
Tips for a cleaner result
A few small habits make the resulting PDF noticeably better:
- Photograph documents in good, even light: a flash glare on glossy paper carries through to the PDF exactly as photographed.
- Hold the phone directly above the document rather than at an angle, so the page does not come out as a trapezoid.
- Group similar photos (all portrait receipts, or all landscape whiteboard photos) and set orientation to match, rather than relying on Auto for a visually uniform document.
- Use the small or normal margin setting for documents you plan to hole-punch or bind; use no margin for photos meant to fill the page edge-to-edge.
Two more habits worth building: check the preview thumbnail for each photo before converting, since it is much faster to retake a blurry shot now than to notice it after the PDF has already been shared with someone else. And if a document has multiple pages, photograph them in order and in one batch, since the tool keeps whatever order you drop the files in, and reordering afterward with the up and down arrows is a bit slower than getting the order right the first time.
None of this is required. A single photo, converted with the default settings, produces a perfectly usable PDF in a couple of seconds. These tips matter more when the output needs to look professional, for example a scanned form, a set of receipts for an expense report, or a document you are sending to someone who will judge it on more than just its content.