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How to turn several photos into one PDF

Applications, insurance claims and school forms often want "one PDF" when all you have is a handful of photos. Here is how to build it properly, in the right order and at a sensible size, without sending the pictures to anyone.

Before you start: get the photos ready

A PDF is only as good as the pictures inside it. A few minutes of preparation saves a rejected upload later.

  • Shoot flat and straight. Put the document on a table, stand above it and keep the phone parallel to the page. Angled shots create skewed pages that are hard to read.
  • Use daylight. Shadows from your hand or phone are the most common reason a scan looks unprofessional.
  • Fill the frame. Crop the table away. A page that fills the picture is more readable at the same file size.
  • Rotate first. If a photo is sideways, fix it with the rotate tool before combining.

Choose the page size

The tool offers three page sizes:

  • A4 is the standard almost everywhere except North America.
  • Letter (US) is the standard in the United States and Canada.
  • Same as image gives every page the exact shape of its photo. This is the best choice for receipts, ID cards and anything that is not a full sheet of paper.

A margin is optional. For printed documents a small margin stops the edge of a photo from being cut off by a printer. For on-screen use, no margin shows the largest picture.

Put the pages in the right order

Pages follow the order of the list. Use the arrows to move a photo up or down. Check the order once before downloading: a form that says “front first, then back” will be read in that order.

Keep the file size under control

Phone photos are large, and ten of them can make a PDF of 30 MB or more, which many portals refuse. Two options keep it down:

  1. Shrink the photos first. Put them through Resize image to a longest side of 2000 pixels, which is plenty for an A4 page read on screen.
  2. Compress them. Compress image lowers the size with little visible change.

Then combine. If a portal gives a limit in megabytes for the whole PDF, divide the limit by the number of pages to get a target per photo.

What if I only have iPhone photos?

HEIC photos work too: they are converted to JPG on your device as they are added. If you only have iPhone photos, the iPhone photos to PDF guide covers it step by step.

Check the result

Open the PDF before you send it. Zoom in on a page to confirm the text is readable, count the pages and check that none is upside down. If something is wrong, go back to the list, fix it and download again; nothing was sent anywhere.

Combine your photos into a PDF here

Drop your images here

or

You can also paste an image with Ctrl+V.

Converted on this device. Nothing is uploaded.

Page size
Orientation
Margin

Photo details such as the location are never copied into the PDF.

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Frequently asked questions

Are my photos recompressed when they go into the PDF?

JPG photos are placed in the PDF as they are, so their quality does not change. PNG images are stored without loss. Other formats, such as HEIC, are converted to JPG first.

Is the location of my photos copied into the PDF?

No. Photo details such as GPS position, camera model and date are not copied into the PDF.

How many pages can a PDF have?

There is no fixed limit in the tool. The practical limit is your device's memory, so for very large batches create several PDFs.

Can I reorder the pages after adding them?

Yes. Use the arrows next to each photo to move it up or down before you download.

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