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Turn a stack of phone photos into one clean PDF

4 steps About 5 minutes

Camera roll to one tidy PDF, small enough to email, without installing an app.

Compress Image to PDF Merge Compress

Receipts, ID copies and signed forms usually arrive as a pile of phone photos, and most upload boxes want a single PDF instead. You can go from camera roll to one tidy file without an app, and keep it small enough to actually email. The trick is to compress the images before they become PDF pages, because a PDF built from raw phone photos is enormous and painful to shrink afterward.

  1. 1

    Shrink each photo first

    Phone images are often several megabytes each. Compressing now keeps the finished PDF from ballooning to something you cannot send.

    Open Compress
  2. 2

    Convert the photos to pages

    Turn the photos into PDF pages, one image per page, in the order you want them read.

    Open Image to PDF
  3. 3

    Combine into one file

    If they came out as separate PDFs, merge them into a single document so the recipient opens one attachment, not ten.

    Open Merge
  4. 4

    Final squeeze for email

    Run one more compression so the whole thing clears your mail provider's attachment limit.

    Open Compress

Frequently asked questions

Can I control the page order?
Yes. Arrange the photos before converting, since the page order follows the order you add them. Renaming the files 1, 2, 3 first makes the sequence predictable.
Is anything uploaded to a server?
No. Each tool runs in your browser, so the photos and the finished PDF never leave your device. You can watch this for yourself on the privacy proof page.

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