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How to Convert Images to PDF (JPG & PNG)

ToolOrbit Team 2 min readUpdated
How to Convert Images to PDF (JPG & PNG)

Turning photos or scans into a single PDF makes them easy to share, print, and archive. ToolOrbit’s Images to PDF tool combines your JPG and PNG files into one document, each image on its own page, all in the browser.

How it works

Each image is embedded directly into the PDF — JPGs as JPEG, PNGs as PNG — and a page is created at the image’s exact dimensions. Embedding avoids re-encoding, so your images keep their original quality.

Combining images into one PDF

  • Drop in or select your JPG and PNG images.
  • Reorder them — each becomes one page in that order.
  • Click Create PDF and the document downloads.
For multi-page scans, name your files so they sort in order, or use the reorder controls before building the PDF.

Private and offline

Because the conversion runs locally with pdf-lib, sensitive documents like ID scans or signed forms never get uploaded. Everything happens on your device.

Ordering pages before you build

Each image becomes exactly one page in the order it appears. If your images come from a scanner folder whose filenames sort alphabetically, confirm that order matches the intended document — otherwise use the reorder controls before generating. Renaming files like 01_page.jpg, 02_page.jpg out of order is the classic cause of a jumbled PDF.

Page size and very large images

A page is created at the image’s exact dimensions, which keeps quality intact but can produce unusual page sizes for very wide panoramas or very small icons. For typical scans and phone photos the result matches a standard document. JPG and PNG are embedded losslessly — a PNG stays crisp, a JPG is not re-encoded.

Beware the all-uppercase convenience: PDF itself handles the transparency of embedded PNGs well, but some older viewers render transparent regions as black. Flatten PNGs onto white before conversion if you must share with old software.

Scanning tips that make a cleaner PDF

Most scanner sloppiness survives into the PDF, so clean the originals before conversion: scan at 300 DPI, gray-level for documents rather than color, and trim blank margins in the scan step. Late pages turned 90° are the other classic — fix the orientation while the images are still images, because the converter faithfully preserves whatever rotation it receives.

  • 300 DPI balances size and legibility for text pages.
  • Flatten each page to a single background to avoid see-through scans.
  • Feed multi-page jobs in reading order — page order follows file order.

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