Combine photos and scans into one PDF for free. Learn how to crop, rotate and reorder images, keep the file size small and avoid blurry pages.
Schools, banks and job portals love PDFs, and your phone camera produces JPGs. Turning a stack of photos into one tidy PDF is one of the most common document tasks, and it is easy to get wrong: pages in the wrong order, sideways pages, or a file so big it will not upload. This guide helps you avoid all three.
Convert images to PDF in a few clicks
- Open the Image to PDF converter.
- Add your JPG or PNG files. You can add several at once.
- Rotate any page that came in sideways and crop away table edges, fingers or background.
- Drag the pages into the correct order.
- Create the PDF and download it.
Take better photos first
The PDF can only be as good as the pictures you feed it. A few seconds of care when photographing a page saves a lot of trouble later.
- Use daylight or an even light. Avoid a shadow from your phone or hand falling across the page.
- Shoot straight down. Angles make text slant and shrink at one side.
- Fill the frame. The paper should take up most of the picture, so the text stays sharp when cropped.
- Use a dark, plain surface. It makes cropping easier.
Keep the file size reasonable
Many upload forms have a limit such as 2 MB or 5 MB. Modern phone photos are several megabytes each, so ten of them can easily exceed that. To stay under a limit:
- Crop out empty margins. Fewer pixels mean a smaller file.
- Do not photograph plain text pages at maximum camera resolution. A moderate setting is often enough to read comfortably.
- Only include the pages that are required.
- If the file is still too large, split it into two PDFs, such as front and back of an ID in one file and supporting pages in another.
Common problems and quick fixes
- Pages appear in the wrong order. Reorder them before creating the PDF. It is faster than redoing the file.
- Text looks blurry. Retake the photo closer and in better light. Compression cannot invent detail that was never captured.
- The page is cut off. Re-crop with a little margin around the edges.
Want the pictures back out of a PDF?
The reverse is just as simple. PDF to Image exports each page as a JPG or PNG, and you can download all pages as one ZIP. If you need the words from a photographed page, run it through Image to Text instead of retyping.
Your photos stay on your device
Photos of IDs, certificates and receipts are personal. Docsworker builds the PDF inside your browser, so the images are not uploaded for conversion. See Are Online PDF Tools Safe? for how to check this yourself.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I put several photos into one PDF?
Yes. Add all the images, drag them into the order you want and each one becomes a page of the same PDF.
How do I keep the PDF small enough to email?
Crop away empty borders, avoid photographing documents at the highest camera resolution, and let the tool compress the pages. A text page rarely needs more than a moderate-resolution image.
Does it work with PNG as well as JPG?
Yes. JPG, PNG and photos taken on your phone can all be converted.
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