Pathine

JPG to PDF

Combine JPG photos into a single PDF, at full quality.

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JPG 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 JPGs are turned into a PDF on your device and never uploaded.

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    About the Pathine JPG to PDF

    Combines JPG photos into a single PDF, in the order you choose. A JPEG that carries no rotation flag is copied into the document exactly as it is — not decoded, not redrawn, not re-compressed — so the pages are pixel-for-pixel the photographs you started with and the file comes out about the size of them added together.

    That matters more for JPG than for any other format, because a JPEG is already compressed. Every tool that redraws it through a canvas adds a second generation of loss on top of the first, which is why photos converted elsewhere often look slightly soft, slightly blocky, and somehow larger than the originals.

    The conversion runs in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, no account is asked for, and there is no queue — the documents people convert from phone photos are usually the ones they would least like to hand to a free website.


    When you'd reach for it

    A form you filled in on paper and photographed

    Almost every organisation that asks for a signed form back wants a PDF, and almost nobody owns a scanner. A photo per page, in order, is the whole job.

    Passport, licence or utility bill for an application

    Identity checks routinely ask for several photographed documents as one file. Doing it here means those photographs never sit on someone else's server.

    Expense receipts

    Fourteen JPGs attached to an email get sent back; one PDF in date order gets approved. The reordering controls exist because the camera's filenames rarely match the order you want.

    A photo portfolio or contact sheet

    "Fit to image" gives borderless pages the shape of each photograph, which is what makes a PDF worth sending as a portfolio rather than a folder of files.


    How to convert JPG to PDF

    1. Add your JPGs

      Drop them here or choose them. Up to 60 at a time, and more can be added afterwards without losing the order you have already set.

    2. Get the order right

      Drag the rows, or use the arrows. Each row carries a thumbnail, because IMG_4471.JPG and IMG_4472.JPG tell you nothing about which page is which.

    3. Pick a page size

      A4 or US Letter with a small margin for anything being printed or submitted; "fit to image" for borderless pages. Orientation can follow each photo or be forced one way.

    4. Save the PDF

      It downloads straight away. Your JPGs are untouched — the conversion produces a new document and changes nothing on your disk.


    Common questions

    Does converting JPG to PDF reduce the quality?

    Here, no. An upright JPEG goes into the PDF as the original compressed data, so there is no second round of compression and no visible change at all. A photo that carries a rotation flag has to be redrawn to come out the right way up, and that single re-encode is done at high quality.

    Why is my PDF about the same size as my photos?

    Because it essentially is your photos. The images are not re-compressed, so the document is the sum of them plus a small amount of structure. If that is too large to email, the PDF Compressor will shrink it — it re-encodes the images inside a PDF and leaves the text alone.

    Are my photos uploaded to a server?

    No. Everything happens in this browser tab, which is the point: the JPGs people convert to PDF are usually photographed identity documents, signed contracts and medical paperwork. There is no upload, no queue, and no retention policy to read.

    Will my photos come out sideways?

    No. Phones store a photo the way the sensor saw it plus a tag saying which way up it belongs, and PDF has no equivalent tag. The rotation is read and applied before the image goes in, which is the step most free converters skip.

    Can I put several photos on one page?

    Not from here — each image becomes its own page, which is what makes the ordering meaningful. For a contact sheet, arrange the photos in an image editor first and convert the finished sheet.

    What if some of my files are PNG or HEIC?

    Mix them in freely; they go into the same document. The general Images to PDF page is the same tool without a format named in the title.

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