Choose some photos to put them in a PDF.
One page per picture, at the size of the picture — not fitted to A4.
A photograph letterboxed onto a portrait sheet wastes most of the page and changes the proportions you chose. A page that is exactly the picture is what a scan-to-PDF produces and what people expect back.
And nothing is re-compressed. JPEGs and PNGs are embedded exactly as they are, so the PDF is as sharp as the pictures and no quality is lost on the way in. It is also why the PDF is roughly the size of the images added together — there is no magic compression step, and a tool producing a much smaller file threw something away.
And one thing is said here every time. Embedding an image carries its metadata with it, so a PDF built from photographs can contain the coordinates of where each one was taken. Run them through the Metadata Remover first if the document is going anywhere.
No. They are read from your disk into this browser tab and the PDF is assembled there. There is no upload and no server, which matters because the pictures people turn into a PDF are usually photographs of documents — an ID, a receipt, a signed page.
Because a photograph letterboxed onto a portrait sheet wastes most of the page and changes the proportions you chose. A page that is exactly the picture is what a scan-to-PDF produces and what people expect back. If you need A4 specifically, resize the images to A4 proportions first.
No. JPEGs and PNGs are embedded exactly as they are, so the PDF is as sharp as the pictures and no quality is lost on the way in. That is also why the PDF is roughly the size of the images added together — there is no magic compression step, and a tool that produced a much smaller file would have thrown something away.
Only JPEG and PNG can be embedded without being redrawn. Accepting others would mean decoding and re-encoding them through a canvas, which makes the tool lossy for the sake of saving you one step. Convert them on the Image Resizer page first and bring them back.
Yes — the files are listed with arrows to move each one up or down, and that list is the page order. It is worth checking: a file picker hands back whatever order your operating system listed, which is rarely the order a document should be in.
Yes, if the photos do. Embedding an image carries its metadata with it, so a PDF built from photographs can contain the coordinates of where each one was taken. Run them through the Image Metadata Remover first if the document is going to anybody. The page says this every time rather than assuming you know.
Yes, and the transparency is kept — a PDF page has no background of its own, so it prints as white and composites as nothing. If you want a solid background, flatten the image before bringing it here.
A total size rather than a count, shown on the picker. Everything is held in this browser tab at once — the images and the document being built — so the limit is refused up front with a number rather than failing part of the way through.
The images are read in your browser and nothing about them is transmitted or stored. They are embedded as they are — so whatever metadata they carry, including GPS coordinates, goes into the PDF with them. Nothing you type here is sent to our servers — the calculation runs entirely in your browser.
