Convert an image to PDF

Eleven photos or one document — recipients notice the difference

A surprising amount of adult life ends in the sentence: please send everything as a single PDF. Job applications with certificates, rental and visa files, expense claims built from a week of receipts, warranty claims with photos of the damage, a design portfolio — in each case the recipient wants one file with pages in a sensible order, not a loose handful of image attachments to open one by one. Application portals in particular often accept exactly one attachment per slot, which makes the bundle not just polite but mandatory. This tool turns that handful into a document: each photo becomes a page, in the order you set, and the whole thing downloads as one PDF. Nothing is uploaded along the way, which matters more than usual here, because receipts, IDs and certificates are precisely the photos you should not scatter across unknown servers.

Your photos are embedded, not re-photographed — megabytes included

JPG and PNG files go into the PDF byte-for-byte, so a sharp photo stays exactly as sharp. The flip side is just as literal: the PDF inherits every megabyte. A modern phone photo weighs 3–6 MB, so ten casually photographed receipts become a 40 MB document that bounces off most inbox limits. The fix belongs before this tool: run the photos through the Image compressor first — a receipt or a certificate loses nothing readable at a fraction of the size — and then bundle the smaller copies here. Compressing the PDF afterwards is the awkward way round; shrinking the images first is the clean one. Sharpness never improves inside a PDF either — a page can only show the pixels the photo brought with it — so compress to a sensible size rather than to the absolute minimum: the small print on a receipt should still survive zooming in.

Which page size, and when it matters

Match each image is the honest default: every page takes exactly the shape of its photo, nothing is scaled, nothing is cropped. Choose A4 or US Letter when the file is headed for a printer or for a system that expects standard paper — application portals and expense systems sometimes do — and each image is then centred on the page and scaled to fit. Two practical notes: a mix of portrait and landscape photos looks tidier on matched pages than forced onto one paper size, and text-heavy photos such as receipts and forms should be photographed straight-on before converting, because no page size can rescue a skewed original. If the file will be printed double-sided, standard paper also keeps the sheets aligned — matched pages of wildly different shapes come off a printer with unpredictable margins.

Order is decided before the PDF exists

The list order is the page order — the arrows next to each image move it up or down, and that is the whole interface. It rewards ten seconds of thought: receipts read best chronologically, application documents in the order the checklist names them, portfolio work strongest-first because nobody is guaranteed to reach page twelve. Get the order right before pressing the button, because inside the finished PDF the pages are just pages; re-arranging them later means either re-running this tool with the list reshuffled, or reaching for Split PDF, which can re-order an existing file by extracting its pages in a new sequence. One deliberate pass here is quicker than any repair afterwards — and the list itself is the quality check: a slow scroll from top to bottom before pressing the button is all the proofreading a photo bundle needs.

Which page size should I pick?

Match each image makes every page exactly the size of its image — no borders, no scaling, and JPG/PNG files keep their original quality because they're embedded as-is. Pick A4 or US Letter when the PDF is meant for printing or for systems that expect standard paper sizes: each image is then centred and scaled to fit the page.