Image to PDF

Convert images to PDF. Rearrange, rotate, choose page size, margins & orientation.

Combine photographs and scans into a single PDF, with control over page order, page size, orientation and margins. The standard way to turn phone photos of a document into something a portal will accept.

What this tool does

Most application portals want a multi-page document as one PDF rather than a folder of JPEGs. This tool takes your images, places each one on a page, and assembles them into a single file in the order you specify.

How to use it

  1. Add your images — photograph each page of the document first.
  2. Drag them into the correct page order.
  3. Choose a page size (A4 or Letter), orientation and margin.
  4. Rotate any page that came out sideways.
  5. Create the PDF and download it.

Settings that matter

SettingRecommendedWhy
Page sizeA4 (Letter in North America)Prints without scaling
OrientationMatch the documentAvoids sideways pages
MarginSmall or noneA cropped scan already has a white border
Fit modeFit / contain"Fill" crops your content off the edges
Image qualityHigh for text, medium for photosText needs sharp edges more than photos do

Preparing the images first

The PDF is only as good as what goes into it. Before assembling: crop to the page edges, straighten any tilt, and raise contrast until the paper reads as white rather than grey. That last step both improves legibility and dramatically reduces file size, because flat white is nearly free for JPEG to encode while grey noise is expensive.

The phone scanning guide covers capture and clean-up in full.

Frequently asked questions

How do I combine front and back of a card into one PDF?

Photograph both sides, add both images with the front first, and export. You get a two-page PDF. If the portal wants both sides on a single page, place them as two images on one page instead.

My PDF is 30 MB. What went wrong?

You built it from full-resolution photos — a 12-megapixel image is around 4 MB each. Resize the sources to about 1800 pixels on the long edge and rebuild, or run the result through the PDF Compressor.

Can I mix portrait and landscape pages?

Yes. Set the orientation per page, or rotate individual pages after assembly with Rotate PDF.

Will the text in my scanned document be searchable?

No. This produces a picture of your pages, not text. Making a scan searchable requires OCR, which this site does not offer. For upload purposes it rarely matters, since a person is reading the document.

What image formats can I use?

JPG, PNG, WEBP and HEIC among others. HEIC works directly, so iPhone users do not need a separate conversion step.

Is the PDF created on your servers?

No. It is assembled in your browser using pdf-lib and saved straight to your device. The images are never transmitted.

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