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JPG to PDF, free, in your browser

Photos into a PDF without re-compressing them: PDF's image format is JPEG, so your file's own bytes go into the document. One page per picture, in your order.

JPG · PNG · HEIC · WebP · AVIF · TIFF · GIF · BMP · any number · any size

✓ no upload✓ no re-encoding✓ any number✓ works offline

How JPG to PDF works here

  1. Drop the pictures. JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, GIF or BMP, any number. Put them in order with Up and Down.
  2. Pick the page. A4 or another paper, portrait or landscape or whichever fits each picture, a margin in millimetres, and whether the picture fits inside the page or fills it.
  3. Download. A baseline JPEG's picture data is copied into the file unchanged, without the camera's details (location, device, time); other pictures are stored losslessly. The result is checked by re-opening it.

What it does

  • Embeds a JPEG's picture exactly as it came off the camera, with no quality lost.
  • Leaves out the camera's details (GPS location, device, time), so the PDF does not say where a photo was taken.
  • Reads the EXIF orientation so a phone photo stands up.
  • Keeps a PNG's transparency as a soft mask, or flattens it onto white.
  • Uses the picture's own resolution for 'same as the picture' when the file says it.

What it does not do

  • A progressive JPEG, a CMYK JPEG, or one whose orientation asks for a mirror is re-encoded by your browser once, and the page says so.
  • It does not compress pictures; that is Compress PDF.
  • A HEIC photo is written as a JPEG at quality 90, since PDF has no HEIC; the HEIC to PDF page explains.

Questions

Does the picture lose quality?

A baseline JPEG does not: its picture data is copied into the PDF unchanged. Other formats are stored losslessly. Nothing is drawn onto a canvas first.

Why is my PDF bigger than the JPEGs?

It is the JPEGs plus a few hundred bytes of structure per page. If it is much bigger, a picture was re-encoded losslessly (a progressive JPEG, say); the result card lists why.

Can I mix formats?

Yes. Each picture is handled by its own format and placed on its own page.

What does 'same as the picture' do?

It makes a page the size the picture claims at its stated resolution, so a 300 dpi scan becomes the page the scanner saw.

Does the PDF show where my photos were taken?

No. A phone writes the GPS position, the device and the time into each JPEG; this tool leaves those details out and copies only the picture, and the result says how many photos it cleaned.

Do my photos leave my computer?

No. Everything runs in your browser tab. The only network requests are the site's own files.

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