Image to PDF
Also known as: convert image to PDF, photo to PDF, JPG to PDF
Converting an image to PDF wraps one or more photos — JPEGs, PNGs, or scans — into a single PDF document with fixed pages. It is the standard way to bundle receipts, IDs, or scanned pages into one portable, printable file that opens the same on any device.
- Each image becomes a fixed PDF page
- Bundles multiple photos or scans into one file
- Add OCR to make the text searchable
Why convert images to a PDF
A PDF presents images as ordered pages that print and display consistently everywhere, which is why forms, applications, and offices ask for them. Combining several photos into one PDF keeps a multi-page document — a contract, a set of receipts, an ID front and back — together as a single file.
Each image becomes a page, sized to fit the chosen page format. The PDF is a container around your images, so it does not improve image quality; very large source images can make the PDF large, which is where PDF compression helps.
Make it searchable
An image-based PDF has no real text underneath, so you cannot select or search its words. Running OCR afterward adds a text layer, turning a stack of page images into a document you can search and copy from.