Under the hood
How it works — and where its limits are
Photographs of paperwork are how a lot of documents start life now: a phone picture of a signed page, a scan
saved as PNG, a screenshot of a receipt. Image to PDF wraps those pictures into a single, portable document that
email systems, application portals and colleagues’ devices all accept predictably. This tool embeds each
JPG or PNG into its own page of a new PDF with pdf-lib — the image data is embedded as-is, not re-rendered, so
the picture in the PDF is the picture you supplied.
The two page-size choices. With A4 pages, every page of the result is a standard
A4 sheet (595.28 × 841.89 points) and each image is scaled to fit inside it with a margin, keeping its aspect
ratio and centred — nothing is cropped and nothing is stretched. That is the right choice for printing and for
portals that expect uniform documents, and it mixes portrait and landscape photos gracefully, each fitted within
the same portrait sheet. With image size, each page takes the dimensions of its image (pixels converted
at 96 DPI, so one pixel becomes 0.75 points), which preserves the image’s own proportions page by page —
better when the PDF is a faithful container for the pictures themselves rather than a printable document.
Order is the content. In a combined document, sequence carries meaning: the front of the ID
before the back, the signed page after the terms. The list order is the page order, and the numbering on each
row is the final position. Drag rows or use the arrows before building; if you build in the wrong order, your
image files are untouched, so just reorder and build again.
What this tool does not do. It does not run OCR — the pages in the result are pictures, not
searchable text. It does not enhance, straighten or compress your images beyond embedding them; a blurry photo
makes a blurry PDF page. If file size matters, compress the finished PDF with our Compress tool, which knows how
to re-encode embedded images. Very large phone photos are embedded at full fidelity, which is honest but can
make a heavy PDF — again, the Compress tool is the follow-up step.
Local by design. Photos of identity documents and contracts are exactly the files that
should not tour the internet for a simple conversion. Here they never leave your device: the PDF is assembled in
this tab, and the site keeps no record of your images’ names or sizes.