Combine photos into one PDF

Turn several pictures into a single PDF document. Drag to reorder, pick A4 or Letter, and download in one step.

⬆️

JPG, PNG or WebP — one page per image

Drag to reorder, tap ↻ to rotate. Phone photos come out the right way up.

Keeping the PDF small enough to send

Each photo goes in at full resolution, so ten 4 MB phone pictures make a PDF of roughly 40 MB — well past most email and portal limits. Compress the images before combining them, or run the finished PDF through the PDF compressor. Doing it before is the better order: the document ends up sharper at the same final size.

Order is the thing people get wrong

Photos are added in the order the file picker hands them over, which is often alphabetical by filename rather than the order you took them. For a set of scanned pages or a sequence of receipts that is rarely what you want. Drag them into place before creating the document — fixing it afterwards means starting again.

When photos are standing in for a scanner

Photographing documents and combining them is a perfectly good substitute for a scanner, but the photos have to be taken like scans: straight on rather than at an angle, filling the frame, with even light and no shadow from your own hand. A stack of slightly skewed, unevenly lit pages makes a document that looks careless however tidily it is assembled.

Frequently asked questions

How many photos can I add?

As many as your device has memory for. Very large batches are slower and heavier; for more than twenty or thirty images, building it in a couple of parts and merging the PDFs afterwards is more reliable.

Can I mix portrait and landscape photos?

Yes, though they all go onto pages of the chosen orientation. A landscape photo on a portrait page simply sits smaller with space above and below, which is fine for documents and less good for a photo album.

Should I pick A4 or Letter?

Letter for the United States and Canada, A4 almost everywhere else. If the PDF is only ever going to be viewed on screen it makes very little difference; if anyone will print it, matching their paper avoids odd margins.

More ways to use this tool