JPG to PDF

How to use JPG to PDF

1. Drop your images onto the panel — one, or dozens.
2. Drag to set the page order, then choose page size, orientation, margins and fit mode.
3. Create the PDF and download it.

What page size should I use?

The main decision is regional, and getting it wrong produces documents that print with unexpected margins or scaling.

If the document is going to a US or Canadian recipient, use Letter. For the UK, EU, Australia or almost anywhere else, use A4. When you do not know, A4 is the safer default — printing A4 content on a Letter printer loses less than the reverse, because A4 is narrower but taller.

How should images be fitted to the page?

Three modes, and they trade off differently.

Fit scales the image until it fits entirely within the page and margins, preserving the aspect ratio. Nothing is cropped, but there will be blank space on two sides when the image and page proportions differ. This is the right default for documents.

Fill scales until the image covers the whole page, cropping the overflow. No blank space, but content at the edges is lost. Right for photo books and full-bleed pages.

Actual size places the image at its physical dimensions computed from its DPI metadata. Correct for scanned documents that need to reproduce at 1:1, and unpredictable for photos, which frequently carry meaningless DPI tags.

Will the PDF be searchable?

No, and this is the most important thing to understand about image-to-PDF conversion.

The result is a container holding pictures. There is no text layer, so nothing is selectable, nothing is searchable, and a screen reader finds nothing to read. This is true of every image-to-PDF converter — it is a property of the input, not a limitation of the tool.

If you need searchable output from photographed or scanned pages, run the images through the Image to Text tool first to extract the text, then either paste that text into a document or keep it alongside as a .txt file. Producing a proper searchable PDF with an invisible text layer positioned over the image requires OCR plus text placement, which is a different pipeline.

How large will the PDF be?

Roughly the sum of the input images, plus a small structural overhead of a few kilobytes per page.

JPEG images are embedded directly without re-encoding, so their bytes carry across exactly and quality is untouched. PNG images are converted to a PDF-compatible encoding, which can change the size in either direction depending on content.

Ten 4 MB phone photos produce a roughly 40 MB PDF — often too large to email. Run the images through the Image Compressor first, or the finished PDF through Compress PDF. Compressing the images beforehand gives better control over the result.

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