SmallNook

JPG to PDF

Drag JPG photos here to make one PDFor click to browse

Need the pages as pictures again? Go from PDF to JPG

About this tool

Photos in, one PDF out

Drop your photos in, drag the rows into the order you want, press Create PDF. Your browser reads each JPEG's header for its size and orientation, gives it a page of its own, and writes one document named after the first photo you added.

The pictures go in untouched: a PDF can carry a JPEG stream exactly as it stands, so nothing gets re-compressed and the pages hold the bytes you dropped in. No server sees any of it. Your browser builds the document and drops it in your downloads folder.

Choosing a page size

Photo is the default and suits scans and receipts. Each page takes the shape of its photo, edge to edge, with no white border.

How big that page comes out depends on what the file says about itself. A scanner records the resolution it worked at, so a sheet scanned at 300 dpi lands on a page the size of the sheet you fed it. Phone photos write 72 there, the field's old code for "screen", so this tool passes over it and gives them a page 11 inches down the long edge. That prints on ordinary paper.

A4 and Letter center each photo inside a half-inch margin and turn the sheet portrait or landscape to suit it. Mixed shapes in one batch come out fine.

Photos taken sideways

Your phone leaves the pixels as the sensor read them and records which way you were holding it in an Exif tag. This tool reads that tag and turns the page to match, so a receipt shot in portrait does not arrive on its side. Four of the eight values also mirror the picture, which PDF's image operator cannot undo. Those pages stand upright and read reversed, left to right.

What this tool will not do

  • No text layer. Every page is a picture. You cannot select or search the words in it, and no OCR runs anywhere.
  • JPEG only. The byte check catches a PNG or a HEIC renamed to .jpg and refuses it. Convert it first.
  • No editing. Cropping and straightening belong to the app that took the picture.
  • No shrinking. Ten 4 MB photos give you a roughly 40 MB PDF. Compress the JPEGs first if size matters.

Common questions

Do my photos get uploaded?

No. The page hands your browser the code and your browser does the work, so the pictures stay on your machine.

How do I control the page order?

The file list is the page order. Drag a row up or down, or use the arrows beside it. Reorder the rows, press the button again, and the new download replaces the old one.

Can I put two photos on one page?

Not here. Each photo gets a page of its own.

A page came out the wrong size. Can I fix it?

Pick A4 or Letter and press Create PDF again. Both ignore what the file claims about its resolution and put every photo on a fixed sheet.

How many photos can I add?

Up to 50 MB per photo and 200 MB in one batch. Past that a phone tab runs out of memory and closes without a word, so the tool stops first and asks you to split the job.