Convert images to PDF

Drop up to 50 images and they come back as one combined PDF. We compress each page first, in the order you dropped them. Runs on our servers, no signup.

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Advanced settings
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Auto tunes each image.

A hard cap for “under 50 KB” portals.

Max resolution

Empty side keeps the ratio. Never enlarges.

What each page gets before it lands in the PDF

JPEG, 184 KBJPEG · 184 KB
JPEG, 73 KBJPEG · 73 KB
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A real page in the making: the engine compresses every image like this before embedding it, which is why the PDFs stay light.

How 50 images become one PDF (and stay in order)

Combining is the default, not a feature. Drop several images and one PDF comes back, one page per image, in the exact order you dropped them. Formats mix freely in a single batch. The JPGs from your camera roll, the PNG screenshots, the WebP a website gave you and the HEICs straight off an iPhone all land in the same file. The same engine that powers the rest of Blinkimg compresses every page before we embed it. That is why the next section's numbers look the way they do.

A PDF weighs what its pages weigh: measured

The wrapper is nearly free: 1.8 KB across a three-page file. Everything else is the pages. That is why compressing them first is the whole game:

RecipeEach pageFinal PDF
Auto quality74.7 KB226 KB
Quality 85 (print-safe)108.2 KB326.3 KB
Pages capped at 100 KB90.6 KB273.6 KB
One HEIC, one page72.9 KB72.9 KB (from a 199.7 KB photo)

Three-page PDF from three copies of the 188.3 KB reference photo, assembled by the same code that builds your file. The HEIC row is one iPhone photo → one page.

How these numbers are measured: every byte count on this page is the size of the actual encoded file our engine produced from the named source image. Those are the same bytes you would download, not an estimate or a best case. Rerun any of them yourself: drop your own file into the tool above and the meter reports your real result.

The PDF-under-100-KB problem, actually solved

The market leaders' own pages document this gap. One top converter's FAQ concedes its generated PDFs come out very large, then points you at a second tool. Another wrote a separate blog post for the 200 KB question its converter can't act on. Here the arithmetic is a control: cap the pages and you have capped the PDF. Set Max file size to a portal's per-page budget (50/100/200 KB presets included). The engine quality-searches every page to fit under it, never over. Our measured five-page run with 100 KB caps assembled to 455.6 KB. Even with every page sitting exactly at the cap, the file tops out just past 500 KB (2.6 KB of wrapper, measured). A page that can't make its cap fails with a clear error, and the result reports it as left out. It never silently blows the budget. Application portals, expense systems, court filings and university submissions all stop being a convert-then-compress two-step.

The built-in routes, and the catch in each one

  1. iPhone: Files app → Create PDF

    The quick action exists. It also refuses HEIC, the format your camera actually shoots, until you convert every photo first. This page accepts HEIC natively, in Safari, with the same 50-image batch.
  2. iPhone: the Notes print trick

    Insert photos, share, then pinch out on the print preview. It works, but it loses every quality and size control. It also produces some of the heaviest PDFs a phone can make.
  3. macOS: Preview

    Select images → File → Print → Save as PDF. Fine for a one-off; no compression control, no size cap, and HEIC batches get unwieldy fast.
  4. Windows: Microsoft Print to PDF

    Select → Print → the PDF printer. One dialog, fixed layout choices, no size control, and no HEIC without installing the paid HEIF extension.

What the pages look like: A4, white, filled, the right way up

Every page is a standard A4 sheet (595×842 points) with a white background, the layout portals and printers expect. Your image fills the sheet as far as its shape allows and sits centred. The sheet's orientation follows the image: landscape photos get landscape pages instead of floating tiny in a portrait frame. Sideways phone photos straighten automatically from their EXIF orientation. Transparent PNGs flatten cleanly onto the white sheet, since the engine flattens transparency to white for every JPEG it makes. Not offered, said plainly: US Letter, custom margins and drag-to-reorder. Drop order is page order, and no portal we know of has rejected A4.

Converting documents and IDs: the privacy part that matters

People convert passports, tenancy contracts, bank statements and medical forms on pages like this one. A photographed document carries EXIF, including the GPS location of the room it was shot in. We strip metadata by default from every page we embed, an angle you will not find mentioned by any of the big converters. We process and wipe the files themselves automatically: we keep nothing, never archive, never reuse. No account is attached to any of it, and no sign-in wall stands between you and the download.

When this is the wrong tool

  • Merging PDFs you already have? This tool builds PDFs from images only. It does not append to or merge existing PDF files.
  • Need selectable, searchable text? Pages are images, not OCR. A scanned contract stays a picture of a contract. Use an OCR tool when the text itself must be extractable.
  • Strict US Letter or margin requirements? Pages are A4 with the image filling the sheet, and there are no margin controls. If a system demands Letter with margins, a word processor is the safer route.
  • Just need the images smaller, no PDF? The compress pages do that directly: same engine, same caps, individual files back.

Rotating a page first? Rotate image. Trimming margins off a photographed document? Crop image.

Questions, answered

Short answers specific to this tool. Drop a couple of images above and see for yourself.

How do I combine multiple images into one PDF?
Drop them together. That is the whole workflow. Up to 50 images become one PDF automatically, one page per image, in the exact order you dropped them. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and iPhone HEIC can all mix in a single batch. There is no merge button and no signup.
How do I get the PDF under 100 KB, 200 KB or 500 KB?
Cap the pages and you have capped the PDF. A PDF weighs what its pages weigh, plus a small wrapper: 1.8 KB on our three-page file, 2.6 KB on five, growing slightly per page. Set Max file size in Advanced settings. Our five-page run with 100 KB caps assembled to 455.6 KB. The engine quality-searches each page under its cap, never over.
Why do image PDFs from other tools come out huge?
Most converters embed your photos at full size, then their own FAQs point you at a second compression tool. Here every image runs through the compression engine first, and we embed the JPEG stream as-is. The compressor and the converter are the same pass. That is the entire fix.
Does converting images to PDF reduce quality?
The PDF step itself loses nothing. We embed pages without re-encoding them. The compression pass before it makes the quality decision. Auto is tuned to be invisible: our 188.3 KB reference page became 74.7 KB. The quality slider raises it for print. Quality 85 measured 108.2 KB per page.
Can I convert iPhone HEIC photos straight to PDF?
Yes. Drop them as they come off the phone, with no JPG detour and nothing installed. That matters because iOS's own Files "Create PDF" quick action chokes on HEIC until you convert first. Measured: a 199.7 KB HEIC became a 72.9 KB one-page PDF, smaller than the photo it came from.
How do I convert a picture to PDF on iPhone or Android?
Open the converter in your phone's browser. You get the same 50-image batch and the same single PDF out, with size caps neither OS offers. Each native route has a catch: iOS Files rejects HEIC, the Notes print trick loses every quality control, and Android has no built-in image-to-PDF path at all.
What page size does the PDF use: A4, Letter, or fit-to-image?
A4 (595×842 points) on a white sheet, the international standard that prints everywhere. Each image fills its sheet as far as its shape allows and sits centred. The sheet turns with the image, so landscape photos get landscape pages. US Letter and custom margins are not offered. Every portal we know of accepts A4.
What happens to a transparent PNG in the PDF?
Transparent pixels flatten onto white, which matches the white A4 sheet. A logo on transparency prints exactly as it looks on paper. The technical answer the other converters skip: we embed pages as JPEG, and JPEG has no alpha channel, so transparency must flatten. We tell you the colour.
Can I reorder or rotate pages before converting?
Page order is drop order. Select files in the order you want and that is the PDF. There is no drag-to-reorder step. Sideways photos straighten automatically from their EXIF orientation. For a deliberate turn, rotate the image first with the rotate tool, then drop it into the batch.
Is it safe to upload ID scans, passports or bank documents?
We strip EXIF and GPS by default, the angle that matters most for documents. A photographed document stops carrying the location of the room it was shot in. We process and wipe your files automatically. We keep nothing, never archive, never reuse. No account is required.
Do I need to sign in, pay, or accept a watermark?
None of the three. The PDF downloads directly. There is no watermark, no account, and no "sign in to save your file" wall at the end of the flow. Free means the whole flow, including the download.
How many images can one PDF hold?
Fifty pages per PDF, at 30 MB per image, with mixed formats welcome in one drop. The free allowance is 300 images a day, counted live beside the tool. Need more pages in one file? Run a second batch and merge with any PDF tool.
What resolution should scanned documents be?
Set Max resolution in Advanced settings to about 2000×2000 for legible text at a small size. That caps the longest side, stays comfortably sharper than an A4 sheet needs, and keeps each page to tens of kilobytes. Full camera resolution on document scans is nearly all wasted bytes.

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