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Convert JPG to PDF
Turn JPG photos and scans into one clean PDF, one image per page. Choose A4 pages or exact image sizing — and nothing is re-compressed or uploaded.
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- No watermarks
- Free plan: 3 tasks a day
Overview
About JPG to PDF
SwiftPDFEdit's JPG to PDF converter turns one or more JPG images into a single PDF document, one image per page, in the order you arrange them. The original JPEG data is embedded directly into the PDF rather than re-encoded, so the photos in the finished document are pixel-for-pixel the ones you started with.
Photographs of paperwork are how most documents begin life now: a receipt snapped in a taxi, a signed form photographed on a desk, a whiteboard after a meeting, an ID card for an onboarding portal. Almost every system that receives those wants a PDF — because a PDF is one file, paginates predictably, prints at a fixed size and cannot be mistaken for a casual photo.
You choose how each image sits on the page. “Fit to A4” places the photo on a standard A4 sheet, centred and scaled to fit with tidy margins, which is the right choice for anything that will be printed or filed alongside other documents. “Match image size” makes each page exactly the dimensions of its image, which avoids all white space and suits screenshots, product shots and anything destined to stay on screen.
Because the JPEG bytes are embedded rather than re-encoded, conversion is lossless and fast — there is no generation-loss from re-compressing an already-compressed photo. The consequence is that the PDF is roughly the size of the images that went into it: ten 4 MB phone photos make a roughly 40 MB PDF. If that is too heavy to email, run the result through Compress PDF, which is far more effective than shrinking each photo first.
The whole conversion happens in your browser, which matters when the images are of a passport, a payslip or a signed contract. Nothing is uploaded, and PNG files can be mixed into the same batch if some of your images are screenshots.
Step by step
How to convert JPG to PDF
Open the JPG to PDF converter
Go to swiftpdfedit.com/jpg-to-pdf and sign in to your free account.
Add your JPG images
Drag and drop one or more JPG files, or click to select them. PNG files can be added to the same batch.
Put the images in page order
Use the move controls to arrange the list. The first image becomes page one, and so on.
Choose the page size
Pick Fit to A4 to centre each image on a standard page with margins, or Match image size to make each page exactly as large as its image.
Convert and download
Click Convert to PDF. The images are embedded without re-encoding and the finished document downloads as images.pdf.
Questions
JPG to PDF — frequently asked questions
Yes — add as many images as you like and each becomes a page, in the order shown in the list. That is the default behaviour; there is no separate “merge” step.
No. The original JPEG data is embedded into the PDF unchanged, so there is no second round of compression and no generation loss. What you see in the PDF is exactly the image you supplied.
Your choice. “Fit to A4” centres and scales each image onto an A4 page with margins — best for printing and filing. “Match image size” sizes each page to its image exactly — best for screenshots and screen-only documents.
Because the photos are. Embedding is lossless, so the PDF weighs roughly what its images weigh; modern phone cameras produce 3–6 MB per shot. Run the finished PDF through Compress PDF if you need it smaller for email.
Yes. Both formats can go into the same batch and each keeps its native quality — PNG for screenshots and graphics, JPG for photographs.
No. A photo of text is a picture of text — the PDF contains pixels, not characters. Making a scan searchable requires OCR, which is part of the Pro plan, not this converter.
No. Your file never leaves your device — all processing happens locally in your browser. Photos of identity documents and contracts stay on your device from start to finish.
Yes. Mobile browsers let you pick images straight from your camera roll, which makes phone-to-PDF a two-tap job with no app to install.
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