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How to Turn Photos Into a PDF (JPG, PNG or iPhone Photos)
Updated 27 September 2026 · 3 min read
Forms and portals love PDFs. You, meanwhile, have photos: a receipt on the kitchen table, both sides of a driver’s licence, six pages of a handwritten assignment. Turning them into one tidy PDF takes about a minute, and a few small choices — page size, margins, order — decide whether the result looks like a scan from an office or a pile of snapshots.
Open the free JPG to PDFStep by step
- Open JPG to PDF. Despite the name, it accepts JPG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC photos.
- Add your images — up to 100 at once. Each image becomes one page.
- Use the arrows to put the pages in order.
- Choose a page size (A4, US Letter, US Legal, A3, or “Same as image”), an orientation (Automatic, Portrait or Landscape) and a margin (None, Small or Large).
- Select Create PDF and download the file.
Photograph documents so they convert well
- Flat and square-on. Lay the page on a dark, contrasting surface and hold the phone directly above it, parallel to the paper.
- Even light. Daylight from a window; avoid the phone’s flash, which causes a bright glare spot.
- Fill the frame with the page, then trim what’s left with the Image Cropper.
- Check sharpness by zooming in before you move on — a blurry photo can’t be fixed later.
Choosing the settings
| You’re making… | Page size | Orientation | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scanned letters, forms, receipts | A4 / Letter | Automatic | Small |
| ID card front and back | A4 / Letter | Portrait | Large |
| Wide charts or whiteboard photos | A4 / Letter | Landscape | Small |
| Photo portfolio | Same as image | — | None |
“Automatic” orientation turns each page to suit its image, so a mix of tall and wide photos all fill their pages neatly.
Keeping the file small
Every photo from a modern phone is several megabytes, so a 20-photo PDF can easily pass 50 MB. Two ways to shrink it:
- Before converting: reduce the photos with the Image Compressor, capping the size at about 2000 pixels. Documents stay perfectly readable.
- After converting: run the PDF through Compress PDF and choose the “Scanned document” type.
Most upload forms accept 2–10 MB, and a 10-page document photographed on a phone usually lands comfortably inside that after either step.
Adding the photos to an existing PDF
Convert the photos to a PDF first, then combine it with your other documents in Merge PDF. A common example: an application form (already a PDF) plus photos of your ID and payslips, merged into one upload.
Making it searchable
A PDF made from photos contains pictures of text, not text — you can’t search it or copy from it. Run the finished file through PDF OCR: it recognises the text in 46 languages and gives you a searchable PDF that looks exactly the same, plus the text to copy or download.
Privacy
Photos of IDs, bank cards and payslips are exactly the kind of image you shouldn’t upload to unknown servers. The conversion runs in your browser, so the photos stay on your device. If you’re sharing photos publicly, remember that phone pictures can contain your location — the EXIF Remover strips it.