How to Convert JPG to PDF Without Losing Quality

Convert JPG to PDF in 4 steps

1. 1

   Open JPG to PDF and add your photos

   Go to JPG to PDF and drag your files onto Select JPG images, or click to browse. The tool accepts .jpg, .jpeg and .jfif files, up to 20 images, 25 MB each and 300 MB in total.

2. 2

   Put the pages in order

   Each photo appears as a numbered card. Click Up or Down to move it, or the trash icon to drop it. The card number is the page number in the PDF.

3. 3

   Choose page size and orientation

   Under Page size, pick A4, Letter or Fit to image. Under Orientation, pick Portrait or Landscape. Orientation is greyed out with Fit to image, because each page then takes the photo's own shape.

4. 4

   Convert and download

   Click Convert image to PDF (or Convert 8 images to PDF for a batch). When you see PDF created!, click Download PDF.

Does converting JPG to PDF reduce quality?

Usually not at all. A normal JPEG is copied into the PDF as is, without decoding and re-saving it. The PDF shows exactly the pixels your camera or phone recorded, and the file is only slightly larger than the photos combined.

There is one exception. Phone photos often carry an EXIF rotation flag instead of being stored upright. The tool rotates those photos so they display the right way up, which means re-encoding them at 95% JPEG quality. You won't see the difference on screen, but it explains why one rotated photo can come out a slightly different size from the rest.

Which page size should you pick?

• A4 or Letter if the PDF will be printed or uploaded to a form that expects a standard page. Each photo is scaled to fit the page and centred, with white space on the sides that don't match.
• Fit to image if the PDF is only for screens. Every page has exactly the photo's proportions and no white border. Each pixel becomes one point (1/72 inch), so a 4000-pixel-wide photo makes a page about 55 inches wide. Viewers and printers scale it down without trouble, but don't be surprised by the page dimensions.
• Landscape for wide shots such as receipts photographed sideways or whiteboard pictures. With Portrait, a wide photo shrinks to a strip across the middle of the page.

JPG to PDF on Windows, Mac and iPhone

Windows 10 and 11: select the photos in File Explorer, right-click and choose Print (on Windows 11, under Show more options), then pick Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer. The Print Pictures dialog adds its own margins and crops to its layouts.

Mac: select the photos in Finder, right-click and choose Quick Actions > Create PDF. The pages follow the Finder order, so rename the files first if the order matters.

iPhone: in the Files app, select the images, tap the three-dot menu and choose Create PDF. Photos in the Photos app need to be saved to Files first.

Fixing common JPG to PDF problems

• "A maximum of 20 images is allowed." Convert in batches and join them with Merge PDF, or use Images to PDF, which takes up to 100.
• "Files skipped: only JPG/JPEG images are supported." The tool checks the file contents, not the name. A PNG or HEIC renamed to .jpg is skipped. Use PNG to PDF for PNGs.
• The PDF is too big to email or upload. Phone photos are large. Run the result through Compress PDF, or a fixed target such as Compress PDF to 1 MB.
• A page is sideways. Fix it afterwards with Rotate PDF.

Frequently asked questions