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Combine photos into a PDF

Photographed a contract, a stack of receipts or a signed form? Add the photos, put them in order, and download one PDF to send or keep.

  1. 1Choose
  2. 2Check
  3. 3Build
  4. 4Verify
  5. 5Download

      The PDF is built in this page. Your photos are never uploaded: apart from a cookie-free visit count, this page's security policy blocks it from sending anything.

      How to use it

      1. Add your photos. You can add more at any time.
      2. Put the pages in order with the arrow buttons, and remove any you don't want.
      3. Choose the page size, orientation and margin. A4 or US Letter suit printing; the photo's own shape suits on-screen reading.
      4. Tick Make the PDF smaller if it needs to go by email or through an upload form.
      5. Press Make PDF. The tool checks the finished file's structure and page count before offering the download.

      How the PDF is made

      Each photo gets its own page, centered and scaled to fit inside the margin without stretching. On A4 or US Letter, orientation follows each photo by default: a landscape photo gets a landscape page, so it isn’t shrunk to fit a tall one. The photo’s own shape option makes every page exactly the size of its photo, which reads well on a phone.

      JPEG photos that are already the right way up are placed in the PDF exactly as they are, so no quality is lost. Photos in other formats, and photos stored sideways, are drawn the right way up and saved as high-quality JPEG first.

      Nothing personal inside

      Document photos are some of the most sensitive files people have, and a PDF can quietly carry more than its pages. Before a photo goes in, the tool strips its location, camera details and dates. The PDF it writes has no document information at all: no author, no title, no creation date and no software name.

      Private by design

      The PDF is built in your browser from the photos you choose. Nothing is uploaded. The only thing the page sends is a cookie-free visit count (which page, the site you came from, your browser type and how fast the page loaded), and its security policy blocks every other connection.

      Questions

      Does the PDF lose quality?

      Not for JPEG photos that are already the right way up: they go into the PDF exactly as they are. Other photos are converted to high-quality JPEG. Ticking Make the PDF smaller reduces every photo to keep the file small.

      Does the PDF include my photos' location?

      No. Location, camera details and dates are removed from every photo before it goes in, and the PDF itself has no author, creation date or software name.

      How many photos can I add?

      As many as your device's memory allows. Dozens of phone photos work on most phones. For a very long document, tick Make the PDF smaller.

      Why is my PDF so large?

      Each page holds a full photo, and a phone photo is often 2 to 5 MB. Tick Make the PDF smaller to reduce each photo to 2,000 pixels on the long side, which is still sharp for reading and printing at A4.

      Can I add a PDF or a Word file?

      No. This tool takes photos and images only. It makes a new PDF; it doesn't merge existing ones.

      Sources

      1. ISO 32000: PDF specification, via the PDF Association
      2. ISO 216: A series paper sizes