JPG to PDF
One photo or fifty, a page each, in the order you choose. Each photo is copied into the document rather than compressed a second time.
- No uploads
- No sign-up
- No file limit
- No watermark
nothing was uploaded
Why most JPG to PDF converters cost you quality
A PDF does not hold pictures in a format of its own. One of the ways it can store an image is called DCTDecode, and DCTDecode is JPEG: the same compressed data, in the same arrangement, that is already sitting in your .jpg file. Putting a photo into a PDF should therefore be a copy.
Almost nowhere does it that way, because the easy route is three lines long: draw the picture onto a canvas, ask the canvas for a JPEG, put that in the document. It works, and it quietly spends a whole generation of JPEG compression on a step that should not have touched the pixels at all. Do it twice, through two tools, and you can see it.
Here the file's own bytes become the image in the document. The page reads the frame header to learn how big the photo is and then copies the rest across untouched. Three kinds of JPG cannot go in that way and are re-encoded instead, each because a reader would otherwise show you something wrong: a progressive JPEG, which the PDF format does not define that filter for; a CMYK photo from a print workflow, which needs a colour space this does not carry; and a photo whose orientation tag asks for a mirror rather than a turn.
The page, before you save it
The other thing these tools get wrong is that you cannot see what "A4", "fit" and "10 mm" did until the file is on your disk, which is why so many people run them three times. The preview beside the settings is drawn by the same two functions that lay out the document, so it is the page rather than an impression of it: change the margin and the preview moves exactly as the file will.
"Same as the picture" is worth knowing about. It makes the page the shape of the photo, at the resolution written inside the file, so a 300 dpi scan becomes a page the size of the thing that was scanned instead of one four times too big. When a file says nothing about its resolution, 96 dots per inch is assumed, which is what a screen is.
What does not travel into the document
Not the EXIF block. The camera, the lens, the second the shutter opened and the coordinates where you were standing stay out of the PDF: what goes in is the picture, its size, and, when the photo was taken sideways, the fact that the page needs turning. No creation date is written either, which is the one every other writer puts in without asking. Your original photos are untouched on your device; to clean those as well, the metadata remover does it without re-encoding them.
The other direction, and the other formats
Going the other way, PDF to JPG turns the pages of a document back into pictures. For a mixture of formats in one document there is image to PDF, for screenshots and transparency PNG to PDF, and for photos straight off an iPhone HEIC to PDF.
Guides that go further
Part of the formats behind your photos. What each format is, when to use it, and what to do when a file will not open.
- Photo file formats: HEIC, JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and more, explainedPhoto file formats compared: which keep transparency, which every app opens, and what to turn a HEIC, AVIF, WebP or JFIF into before you edit or share it.
- HEIC vs JPG vs PNG: which should your photos be?HEIC vs JPG vs PNG compared on file size, quality, compatibility, transparency and editing, with a plain answer for keeping, sharing and editing photos.
- Is it safe to upload photos to online converters and background removers?Is CloudConvert safe? Is remove.bg safe? What CloudConvert, Convertio, ezgif, remove.bg and Photoroom say about your uploads, checked 16 September 2026.
- How to reduce a PNG's file size without losing transparencyReduce PNG file size by resizing, cutting colours and lossless optimising, with free PNG optimizer tools that keep transparency and run on your own device.
Questions
How do I convert a JPG to PDF?
Drop the photos on this page, put them in the order you want by dragging, and click Save PDF. Everything happens in your browser: no account, no upload, no watermark and no limit on how many pictures go into one document.
Does converting to PDF lose quality?
Not here. A PDF stores a JPEG in the same form a JPG file does, so your photo is copied into the document byte for byte rather than being decoded and saved again. That is the difference from most converters, which draw the picture onto a canvas first and hand you a second generation of JPEG compression. The one case that has to be re-encoded is a progressive JPEG, because the PDF format's image filter is not defined for those, and the page does it at the quality you set.
Can I put several photos into one PDF?
Yes, and that is the normal way to use it. Every picture becomes one page, in the order shown, which you can change by dragging a page or with the arrow buttons. Tick "a separate PDF per picture" if you would rather have one file each, and they arrive as a ZIP.
Will it fit an A4 page?
Yes. A4 is the default, with US Letter, Legal, A3 and A5 beside it, and the preview shows the actual page before you save anything. "Same as the picture" makes the page the shape of the photo instead, at the resolution written in the file, so a 300 dpi scan comes out the size the scanner was looking at.
How do I stop the photo being cut off or leaving white bars?
That is the "how it sits" setting. Fit puts the whole picture on the page and leaves space where the shapes do not match, which is what you usually want. Fill covers the page and lets the edges fall outside it. Stretch distorts the picture to the page exactly. The preview updates as you change it, so you can see which one you meant.
Is there a size limit or a number of files limit?
No. There is no server paying for the work, so there is nothing to meter: the practical limits are your device's memory on a very large batch and the few seconds each big photo takes. A picture too large for the device to hold is reduced rather than crashing the tab, and the page says so when that happens.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The PDF is written inside this browser tab by code you can read. There is no address on this site that could receive a picture, and after the page has loaded once it works with no connection at all, which is the easiest way to check.
Does it keep the location and camera data from my photos?
The EXIF block is not carried into the PDF: what goes in is the picture, its size and, when the photo was taken sideways, the fact that it needs turning. The original files on your device are untouched. If you want the originals cleaned too, the metadata remover on this site does that without re-encoding them.
Which way up will a phone photo be?
The right way up. A phone writes photos in whatever way the sensor was facing and adds a tag saying how far to turn them, and this reads that tag and turns the page accordingly. You can also turn any page yourself by a quarter at a time before saving.
Your files never leave this device
Most online converters upload every file to a server, convert it there and keep it for a while. Here your browser decodes and encodes the picture itself, so there is nowhere for the file to go. You can check it: load this page, switch the browser to offline, and convert a file. How to check a site is not uploading your photos.