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JPG to PDF Converter

Convert JPG to PDF free, without uploading anything. Turn one photo or a hundred into a single document, with the page size, orientation and quality you choose.

Drop your images here

JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF and SVG. Add as many as you like — they become the pages, in the order you arrange them.

Your files never leave this device. The PDF is built in your browser.

Most JPG-to-PDF sites upload your photos to a server, convert them there and hand back a download link. That is a sensible way to build the feature and a poor way to handle a passport photo, an ID card or a payslip — the file has left your machine, and what happens to it next is a policy question rather than a technical one.

This converter does the work in the page you are reading. Your browser decodes each JPEG, lays it out and writes the PDF locally, so nothing is transmitted and there is no queue. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect entirely and it will still work.

Working locally is also what makes the live preview possible. Every other converter asks you to pick a page size, a margin and a fit mode, then produces a file you have to open to discover you chose wrong. Here the page is drawn as you configure it, using the same layout maths that writes the PDF — so what you see is what gets saved.

How to convert JPG to PDF

  1. 1. Add your JPG files

    Drag the photos onto the drop zone or choose them from your device. On a phone the picker offers your camera roll directly. JPEG, JPG and every other common image format are accepted.

  2. 2. Put the pages in order

    Each photo becomes a page. Drag a thumbnail to move it, or sort the batch by filename or date — the filename sort reads numbers properly, so IMG_2 comes before IMG_10 rather than after it.

  3. 3. Turn any sideways photos upright

    Photos taken in portrait often arrive rotated. Rotate them a quarter turn at a time and the preview updates, so nothing lands in the PDF on its side.

  4. 4. Choose the page size

    A4 or US Letter for anything you will print or email, with automatic orientation so a landscape photo is not forced upright. Or fit each page to its photo exactly, for an album that will only be read on screen.

  5. 5. Set the quality

    Resolution decides the file size more than anything else: 150 DPI for print, 72 for screen, or keep every original pixel. The estimated size updates as you change it.

  6. 6. Convert and download

    Press Convert to PDF. The document is built in your browser and saved straight to your device — no queue, no email, no watermark.

Keeping photo quality in the PDF

A JPEG has already been compressed once, so the thing to avoid is compressing it a second time at a lower setting. Leaving the format on automatic and the quality high does exactly that: photographs are stored as JPEG at close to their original fidelity, and only screenshots or line art in the same batch are switched to lossless.

Resolution is the setting that actually decides both quality and size. A 24-megapixel photo placed on A4 at 150 DPI needs under 1.5 megapixels to print perfectly sharply — the other 22.5 are detail the paper cannot reproduce. Those pixels are discarded before encoding rather than embedded and scaled down by the viewer, which is the difference between a 400 KB PDF and a 12 MB one. Choose "Original" only when the PDF is an archive rather than something to send.

Frequently asked questions

How do I convert JPG to PDF for free? +

Add your JPG files above and press Convert to PDF. That is the whole process. There is no account, no daily limit, no watermark on the result and no paid tier holding back the page size, quality or layout options — everything on this page is available to everyone.

Are my photos uploaded to a server? +

No. Your browser decodes each JPEG, lays it out and writes the PDF locally. Nothing is transmitted, nothing is stored, and once this page has loaded you can disconnect from the network entirely and it still works. That is why this is a reasonable place to convert a passport photo, an ID card or a payslip, and an upload-based converter is not.

Can I combine multiple JPGs into one PDF? +

Yes, and that is the normal case. Add as many photos as you like and each becomes a page in the order you arrange them. Drag the thumbnails to reorder, or sort the whole batch by filename or date. If you would rather have one PDF per photo, tick "Save each image as its own PDF" and you get a ZIP of separate files instead.

Does converting JPG to PDF reduce the quality? +

Only if you ask it to. A JPEG is already lossy, and re-encoding it at a lower quality would soften it further, so leave the format on automatic and the quality high and the photo goes in essentially as it was. The setting that genuinely changes the picture is resolution: at 150 DPI a photo is resampled to what an A4 page can actually print, which is invisible on paper and a large saving in file size. Choose "Original" if you want every pixel kept.

Why is my PDF so much larger than the JPGs? +

Usually resolution. A phone photo is 12 to 50 megapixels, and printing one on A4 uses roughly 1.5 of them — the rest is detail no printer or screen will show, and it is most of the file. Drop the resolution to 150 DPI and the PDF typically shrinks several times over with no visible difference. The other cause is forcing PNG: it is lossless, which on a photograph costs several times what JPEG does. Leave the format on automatic and photographs stay JPEG.

How do I convert JPG to PDF in A4 size? +

Set page size to A4 and leave orientation on automatic, so each page takes the orientation of its own photo and a landscape shot is not shrunk into an upright page. Pick "Fit inside" to keep the whole photo visible with a margin around it, or "Fill the page" for a full-bleed result where the overhanging edges are cropped.

My photos are sideways in the PDF. How do I fix that? +

Use the rotate buttons on the thumbnail to turn them upright before converting, and check the preview. This happens because a camera usually records the picture in one orientation and stores the rotation as a separate EXIF tag, and not every application honours that tag — which is why a photo can look correct in one viewer and sideways in another. Rotating here bakes the correct orientation into the page, so it is right everywhere.

Can I convert HEIC photos from my iPhone? +

Not on most browsers, and it is worth being plain about why. HEIC rather than JPEG is what an iPhone saves by default, and only Safari can decode it — so elsewhere those files are skipped rather than silently mangled. Either set Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible so the phone shoots JPEG from then on, or share the photos through Mail or WhatsApp, which converts them to JPEG in transit. Opening this page in Safari also works.

Can I fit more than one photo on a page? +

Yes — one, two or four per page, with an adjustable gap between them. Two per page suits receipts and both sides of an ID card; four makes a contact sheet. The grid follows the page shape, so a portrait page stacks two photos vertically while a landscape page sets them side by side.

Is there a limit on how many photos I can convert? +

None imposed by the tool. The real ceiling is your device memory, because everything is held in the browser rather than on a server — a very large batch of high-resolution photos can exhaust a tab. If that happens, lower the resolution or convert in two batches.

Will the PDF have a watermark? +

No. There is no watermark, no footer, no advertising page and no sign-up. The document contains your photos and nothing else, apart from page numbers and document details if you deliberately turn them on.

Does it work on a phone? +

Yes. The layout adapts and the file picker offers your camera roll, so photographing a document and converting it takes a few seconds with nothing to install. Phones have less memory than laptops, so large batches are more likely to need the lower resolution settings.

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