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Turn JPG images into a PDF

or drop them here
Choose at least one JPG or PNG image first.

Turn one or many JPG photos into a single PDF without uploading anything. Each photo becomes one page, the camera rotation is honored, and the JPEG data passes through untouched. The finished file is reopened and measured before you can download it.

Photos in, one PDF out

  1. Choose the photos

    Press Choose images, or drag .jpg or .jpeg files onto the page. Thumbnails appear under Image order with the running count and total size, and all reading happens in this tab.

  2. Arrange the pages

    Move each photo up or down with the arrow buttons. One photo makes one page, and the numbered order on screen is the order inside the file.

  3. Set size and margins

    Match image gives each photo a page of its own shape; A4 and US Letter put every photo on standard paper, turning wide shots sideways. Add None, Narrow, or Standard margins. Photos are never cropped or resampled.

  4. Create and download

    Press Create PDF. The new file is reopened, its pages counted and measured, and every photo's pixel width and height confirmed. Download PDF then appears, named after the first photo with -jpg added, for example kitchen-01-jpg.pdf.

The photos are never re-encoded

Many converters decode each photo and encode it again, which softens edges and stamps new artifacts over old ones. This tool skips that round trip: the JPEG data is copied into the PDF as it stands, and the page carries the camera rotation tag, so a sideways shot stands upright with no pixel touched.

The reopen check confirms the copy landed intact: page count, every page size, and the pixel width and height of each photo must all match before Download PDF appears.

One consequence to know upfront: the PDF weighs about as much as the photos, because nothing was compressed twice. If an upload form or mailbox demands less, Size breakdown shows which pages cost most, and Compress PDF shrinks the file, including exact targets such as 200 KB.

Move-in photos a landlord cannot dispute

You collect rented-flat keys on Saturday and the agent shrugs at the scuffed hallway wall. Before unpacking, you photograph every room: hallway-01.jpg, kitchen-01.jpg through kitchen-04.jpg, fourteen shots in one afternoon. Loose photos in a message thread prove little, because anyone can question their order.

Drop the whole set here and arrange the thumbnails room by room with the arrow buttons. These pages are evidence for a screen, not for a printer, so Match image with None margins keeps every photo at its own shape. Press Create PDF and the download lands as hallway-01-jpg.pdf: fourteen pages, rooms in walk-through order, every photo stored exactly as shot.

Send that file to the agent the same evening and keep a copy. If a few shots came from an iPhone as HEIC, run those through HEIC to PDF first; a set mixing JPG with PNG screenshots belongs in Images to PDF.

Before you press Create PDF

Common surprises and their fixes

When a different route fits better

When the destination names an exact cap, treat this page as step one and the matching size guide as step two: assemble the photos, then squeeze to the number.

When the photos must sit beside pages from another PDF, convert here and join the files with Merge PDF. When a page must go, split it out with Organize pages.

Questions about JPG photos in a PDF

Do the photos keep their metadata?
The JPEG data is copied unchanged, so whatever the camera stored inside travels with it. The PDF wrapper itself gains no fresh metadata.
Why is the PDF nearly as big as the photos?
Because nothing is compressed twice. The file holds your photos plus a little document structure, so its size mirrors the total shown under the list.
Can I add a caption under a photo?
Not on this page: each photo fills its own page with no text. To label pages afterwards, open the file in Edit PDF and place text where you need it.
How many photos can I combine?
As many as the browser tab can hold in memory. The running count and total size under the list tell you where you stand before you build.
A photo looks soft in the PDF. Did conversion blur it?
No, the stored pixels match the source byte for byte. If a page looks soft, the photo was already soft, or it is drawn larger than its pixels allow.

Keep going with the other tools

Each tool below works fully inside the browser, checks its own output before offering the download, and needs no account. Choose whatever your file needs next.

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