Convert JPG to PDF
Convert JPG images to PDF free, in your browser.
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Forms are the reason. A photograph of a passport, a signed page, a receipt or a certificate is what somebody actually needs, and the system they are using takes PDFs and nothing else. The picture is fine; the wrapper is wrong.
This is the cheapest conversion on the site because nothing is re-encoded. A JPG is embedded into the PDF byte for byte, exactly as you dropped it in, and the page is drawn to the shape of the picture. The image you get out of the PDF later is the identical file, not a copy of it, which is unusual: most tools re-render the picture on the way in and quietly cost you a little quality for no reason.
One consequence of that is worth saying, because it surprises people. Because the JPG goes in untouched, everything it was carrying goes in with it, including the camera, the timestamp and any GPS coordinates. Converting to PDF is not a way to strip that. Clean the image first if the PDF is going somewhere public.
How to convert JPG to PDF
- Drop your JPG files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
JPG and PDF side by side
| JPG | ||
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 1992, from the Joint Photographic Experts Group | 1993, from Adobe, opened as a standard in 2008 |
| Where it opens | Everywhere, on everything, including hardware old enough to vote | Every device made in the last twenty years, identically |
| Best at | Photographs, and anything going somewhere you cannot predict | Sending a document that must look the same everywhere, including printed |
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Questions about JPG to PDF
Does the photo lose any quality?
None at all. The JPG is copied into the PDF as it is, with no decoding and no re-encoding, so the picture in the document is bit-for-bit the file you started with. This is why the conversion is instant even on a large photo. What it cannot do is make the image better: a PDF page has no resolution of its own, so a small blurry photograph stretched across a page is still a small blurry photograph.
How large will the PDF be?
A few kilobytes more than the JPG. There is no compression pass and no downscaling, which is deliberate: most people converting to PDF are sending it somewhere it will be read, printed or filed, and silently degrading it would be the wrong default. If the result is over an upload limit, <a href="/compress-image-to-1mb">compress the photo first</a> and then convert, which costs less quality than compressing the finished PDF.
Can I get several photos into one document?
Not here, which produces one PDF per image. For a three-page form photographed a page at a time, that is the wrong shape and <a href="/images-to-pdf">images to PDF</a> is the right tool: it keeps the order you drag the files into and gives each picture its own page. As a rule, if whoever asked for it expects one attachment, use that page instead of this one.
Does the metadata in the photo go into the PDF?
Yes, and this is the one thing to watch. Three quarters of this site removes hidden data by accident, because converting, resizing and compressing all redraw the picture. This conversion does not redraw anything, so the Exif block travels into the PDF intact, coordinates included. If the document is going to a landlord, a forum or a public filing, run the photo through <a href="/remove-metadata">Clean</a> before converting it.