Pathine

Images to PDF

Turn photos and scans into one PDF, in the order you choose.

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Images to PDF Built on your device

Drop your images here

One or many. You can reorder them before saving, and nothing is uploaded — the PDF is assembled on your device.

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    Add an image to begin.

    Your images are turned into a PDF on your device and never uploaded.

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    About the Pathine Images to PDF

    Turns a pile of images into one PDF, in whatever order you put them. Drag the rows to reorder, or use the arrows — filenames from a camera or a scanner are IMG_4471 and scan_0003, so the thumbnails are usually the only way to tell which page is which.

    The PDF is assembled in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, which matters here because the images people turn into PDFs are passports, payslips, signed forms and medical letters — the exact documents that should not be sitting in a stranger's upload folder waiting for a retention policy to delete them.

    Where it can, the original file goes into the document untouched. A JPG or PNG that needs no rotation is copied in byte for byte rather than redrawn, so the result is a PDF of your photographs rather than a PDF of screenshots of your photographs, and it comes out roughly the size of the images that went into it.

    Photographs taken on a phone are checked for the rotation flag cameras write instead of turning the pixels. PDF has no equivalent field, so a tool that ignores it hands back a document full of sideways pages — the most common way this job goes wrong, and the hardest to fix afterwards.


    When you'd reach for it

    Photographed documents that have to be submitted as a PDF

    Landlords, schools, insurers and visa portals almost all ask for a PDF and almost nobody photographs a document with anything but a phone. This is the step in between.

    Receipts for an expense claim

    One PDF in date order is far easier for whoever approves it than fourteen photos attached to an email, and it is usually what the form demands anyway.

    Scans that arrived one page at a time

    Flatbed scanners and phone scanning apps produce a file per page. Putting them back in order and saving them as one document is what makes them readable as a document.

    A set of screenshots that needs to travel as one file

    Bug reports, chat logs and booking confirmations are easier to send, print and archive as a single paginated file than as a folder of PNGs.


    How to convert images to PDF

    1. Add your images

      Drop them here, choose them, or paste a screenshot straight from the clipboard. Up to 60 at a time, and you can keep adding without starting over.

    2. Put them in order

      Drag a row to move it, or use the up and down arrows. Each row shows a thumbnail, the pixel size and the file size, so similar filenames are still easy to tell apart.

    3. Choose the page

      A4 or US Letter for anything being printed or submitted, or "fit to image" for a borderless page the shape of the picture. The margin setting adds white space around each one.

    4. Save

      One image becomes a one-page PDF named after it; several become one document. The whole thing happens on your device, so it is as fast as your machine is.


    Common questions

    Are my images uploaded anywhere?

    No. The document is built in this browser tab and never leaves it. This is the whole reason to use it rather than a free converter that wants your identity documents on its server first — there is nothing here to upload and nothing to delete afterwards.

    Will my photos lose quality?

    Not in the usual case. A JPG or PNG that needs no rotation is embedded exactly as it is, with no re-encoding at all. Images that cannot go in directly — HEIC, WebP, or a photo carrying a rotation flag — are redrawn once at high quality, because the alternative is a page that comes out sideways.

    Why did my phone photos used to come out sideways?

    Phones rarely rotate the pixels when you turn the camera. They store the picture as the sensor saw it and add a tag saying which way up it goes. PDF has no such tag, so a converter that copies the file in without looking produces a document full of pages on their side. This reads the tag and straightens the image before it goes in.

    What does "fit to image" do to the page size?

    It makes each page the same shape as its picture, with no letterboxing. The page is sized so the image sits at 150 dots per inch, which is a real print density — so a large photograph produces a physically large page. Choose A4 or Letter instead if the result is going to be printed on paper.

    Can I mix formats in one document?

    Yes. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP and HEIC can all go into the same PDF, in any order. HEIC is the one that depends on your browser — see the HEIC to PDF page for what that means.

    Is there a limit on how many images?

    Sixty at a time, and no size limit beyond your device's memory, since there is no server imposing one. Nothing is kept decoded in the background — each image is measured, thumbnailed and released — so a long list stays workable on a phone.

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