JPG to PDF Converter: Free Online

To convert a JPG to PDF, drop it into the box above (or drop a whole batch to turn them into one PDF), click Build PDF, then Download. Each photo shows up as a thumbnail numbered in page order. Drag a thumbnail to move it, or use its arrow buttons if dragging is awkward, on a phone for instance. Files ending in .jpeg work exactly the same as .jpg; they're the same format. If some of your images are PNGs, add them too, or use the general tool to convert any image to PDF.

Pick a page size before you build. "Fit to image" is the default: every page takes its photo's own shape, so nothing is cropped or padded. A4 and Letter put every photo on the same standard sheet instead, shrunk to fit if it's too big (never enlarged, never stretched) and centered. Margin adds white space around the photo on any of the three.

Photos taken on a phone held upright are usually saved sideways, with a note in the file saying which way to turn them. This tool reads that note, so a portrait photo comes out as a portrait page, the same way round as its thumbnail.

Nothing is uploaded. Your browser builds the PDF in a background worker, and it works the same in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android.

You can also do it with what's already on your device. On an iPhone, select the photos in the Files app, touch and hold, then choose Create PDF; from the Photos app, tap Share, then Print, pinch outward on the preview, and save the PDF that opens. On a Mac, select the JPGs in Finder, Control-click, and choose Quick Actions, then Create PDF. On Windows, select them in File Explorer, right-click, choose Print, and pick Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer (untick "Fit picture to frame", or it crops the edges). On Android, open a photo in Google Photos, tap the menu, choose Print, then Save as PDF. Those are fine for one or two photos. For a dozen receipts in the right order, on one page size, this page is quicker.

Say you've photographed six receipts on your phone for an expense report, each a JPG of about 1.5 MB. The expense system takes one PDF, not six images.

Drop all six into the box. They land in the order you added them; drag any receipt that's out of sequence into place. Leave the page size on "Fit to image" so each receipt fills its own page at full resolution, and click Build PDF. A second or two later you have one six-page PDF of roughly 9 MB, about what the six photos add up to, ready to upload. Change the order or the page size afterwards and the old PDF is cleared, so the one you download always matches what's on screen.

If the receipts need to print on standard paper, switch to A4 or Letter first. Each photo is centered on its own sheet and scaled down to fit, never distorted.

JPG (also written JPEG) is a photo format: one picture, compressed so it's small. PDF is a document format: pages that can hold text, drawings and images. Turning a JPG into a PDF here means placing each photo on its own page. The photo's compressed data goes into the PDF exactly as it is, with no decoding and no second round of compression, so the image in the PDF is identical to your original and the PDF ends up about the same size as the JPGs together.

The file around the photo is handled differently. Its EXIF metadata (GPS location, camera model, the time it was taken) is stripped out, so sending the PDF doesn't send where you were. Before that, the orientation note is read and applied to the page, so nothing comes out sideways. And a photo that was only partly saved, say from an interrupted download, is flagged in the list instead of turning into a half-gray page.

If you have the PDF and want pictures back out of it, the PDF to PNG converter saves each page as an image. iPhone photos still in Apple's .heic format go through HEIC to PDF instead.