File4Edit

Image to PDF

Turn JPG, PNG and other images into a single PDF, one page per image, free and in your browser with nothing uploaded. Choose Letter, Legal, A4 or fit-to-image pages; JPEG photos usually go in without being recompressed, and 8-bit PNGs lose nothing.

Drag to reorder. Page size and margins apply to every page.

In detail

Image to PDF builds a single PDF from a set of images, one page per image, in the order you set. Pages can be Letter, Legal, A4, A3, A5, square or sized to fit each image, with a margin in millimeters and a choice of how the picture sits: contain, cover or stretch.

JPEG files are embedded as they arrived whenever no cropping is needed, and PNG pixels are stored losslessly, so a photograph is not recompressed on its way into the document. Other formats, such as WebP, HEIC, GIF, BMP, TIFF and SVG, are redrawn first, and a WebP or HEIC photo becomes a PNG page, which is larger. To make the finished PDF smaller, resize the photos before you add them.

Image to PDF at a glance

Input
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, GIF, BMP, TIFF, SVG and other image formats
Output
One PDF, one image per page
What it does
  • One page per image, in the order you set
  • Letter, Legal, A4, A3, A5, square or fit-to-image pages
  • Contain, cover or stretch placement
  • Margins in millimeters
  • JPEGs embedded without recompression
Who it is for
Anyone sending photos, receipts or scanned pages as a single document.
Limits
  • PDFs cannot be added here; use Merge PDF to join them.
  • A page cannot exceed 200 inches on a side, so huge images are scaled down to fit.
  • There is no compression setting, so resize large photos first.
  • A multi-page TIFF contributes its first page only.
  • A 16-bit PNG is stored at 8 bits per channel.
Privacy
Runs entirely in your browser: neither the images nor the finished PDF are ever uploaded.

How to convert images to PDF

  1. Add your images Drop the images onto the page or browse for them. Each one becomes a page, and the list shows its dimensions, size and format.
  2. Set the page order Drag a row up or down, or use the arrow buttons. The order in the list is the order of the pages.
  3. Choose page size, orientation and margin Letter is selected to start; pick Legal, A4, A3, A5, square or fit to image instead, set the margin in millimeters, and leave orientation on auto to give wide images a landscape page.
  4. Decide how each image sits Contain fits the whole image inside the margin, cover fills the box and crops the overflow, stretch takes the exact box and ignores the aspect ratio. The preview shows page one to scale with the margin marked by a dashed line.
  5. Build the PDF and download it Press build PDF, then download. You get one PDF, named by the file name field in the rail.

Image to PDF: common questions

Are my photos re-compressed when they go into the PDF?

Usually not. With contain or stretch, a JPEG goes into the document as the file you supplied, its image data untouched, and a photo stored sideways is turned upright by the page rather than redrawn. An 8-bit PNG's pixels are stored with lossless compression, so they lose nothing either; a 16-bit PNG is reduced to 8 bits per channel. Images are redrawn and re-encoded when cover has to crop them, when the source is another format such as WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF or SVG, or, rarely, when a PNG carries its own orientation tag.

What page sizes are available, and how big can a page get?

Letter (612 × 792 points, the default), Legal (612 × 1008), A4 (595 × 842), A3 (842 × 1191), A5 (420 × 595), square (595 × 595), or fit to image, which sizes each page to its own image plus the margin. A PDF page cannot exceed 14,400 points — 200 inches — a side, so a fit-to-image page from an enormous source is scaled down to that limit.

Can I add an existing PDF to the set?

No. This tool takes images only, and a PDF dropped here is rejected with a message. To join PDFs use Merge PDF, and to turn PDF pages into images use PDF to image.