Almost nobody owns a scanner any more, but plenty of forms still ask for “a scanned copy, as a PDF.” The practical answer is a phone camera and a converter. Toolsyy’s Images to PDF tool turns JPG, PNG and WebP files into one document — and because it runs in your browser, photographs of your passport or payslip never leave the device.
Step by step
- Open Images to PDF and select your photos. You can add more later.
- Put them in order with the ↑ and ↓ buttons — each image becomes one page, top to bottom.
- Pick a page size, orientation and margin.
- Click Create PDF and download it.
Choosing the page size
This is the setting people skip, and it’s the one that determines whether the result looks like a document or like a photo album.
- A4 (most of the world) and Letter (North America) put your image on a real paper-sized page with a white margin. Choose one of these if the PDF will be printed, or if it’s going to a form or an office that expects a document.
- Fit page to image makes the page exactly the dimensions of the photo. No white border, no cropping — the PDF is just the picture. Best for something that will only ever be viewed on screen.
With A4 or Letter, Match each image orientation is usually the right choice: a wide photo gets a landscape page and a tall one gets portrait, so nothing is squeezed into a shape that doesn’t suit it. Force portrait or landscape only when every page must be the same way up — which printers and document-management systems sometimes require.
Why your photo looks small on the page
A common surprise: you add a large photo, choose A4, and the image sits in the middle with a lot of white around it. That’s the margin doing its job, and the slider lets you shrink it to zero.
The image is always scaled to fit inside the page — never cropped and never stretched. If the photo’s proportions don’t match the page’s, the leftover space appears as a border on two sides. That’s unavoidable geometry, not a setting: an A4 page and a phone photo are simply different shapes. If you want zero border, use fit-to-image.
File size, and when to compress first
Modern phone cameras produce files of several megabytes each. Ten of them make a PDF too big for many upload forms, which often cap at 5 MB.
Because a JPEG is embedded into the PDF as-is, the PDF is roughly the sum of the images you put in it. So the fix is to shrink the images first: run them through the Image Compressor, then build the PDF from the smaller versions. Compressing beforehand is far more effective than trying to shrink the finished PDF, because the images are where essentially all the bytes are.
There’s a privacy bonus too. Re-encoding a photo through the compressor strips its EXIF metadata — including the GPS coordinates your phone recorded when you took the picture. See our guide to compressing images for the details.
What happens to each format
PDF natively understands JPEG, so a .jpg is embedded byte-for-byte
with no re-compression and no quality loss whatsoever. PNG and WebP files are
converted first — losslessly — into a form the PDF can carry. The practical
result is the same either way: what you see in the PDF is what was in the
original image.
FAQ
Can I combine several photos into one PDF?
Yes. Add as many images as you like, drag them into order with the arrow buttons, and they become one PDF with a page per image. This is the usual way to send a multi-page scan taken with a phone camera.
Does converting to PDF reduce image quality?
No. A JPEG is embedded into the PDF exactly as it is, with no re-compression, so the image inside the PDF is the same data as the original file. PNG and WebP images are converted losslessly to a format PDF understands.
Should I choose A4, Letter or fit-to-image?
Choose A4 or Letter if the PDF will be printed or shared as a document, because those pages match real paper. Choose fit-to-image if the PDF is only for viewing on screen and you want no white border at all.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The images are read from your device into browser memory, assembled into a PDF locally, and handed straight back to you. Nothing is sent to a server, which matters when the photos are of documents like passports or bank statements.
Related guides
- How to compress images — shrink your photos before building the PDF.
- How to merge PDF files — join your new PDF onto an existing one.
- How to reorder and rotate PDF pages — fix a page that came out sideways.
Try it now: Free Images to PDF Tool