Image to PDF Converter

Screenshots, logos and transparent PNGs

Screenshots convert especially well, because the sharp edges of interface text survive untouched. Logos and icons with transparent backgrounds keep their transparency, so they appear on white in most readers. Diagrams and charts exported from presentation or design software also stay crisp at any zoom level the original resolution allows. One thing to understand is that every page in the resulting PDF is an image. The words you see in a screenshot are pixels, not live text, so you cannot select, copy or search them in the PDF. If you need searchable text, use the original document's own Save as PDF option instead.

Why PNG PDFs can be large and how to shrink them

Lossless storage is perfect for flat graphics but expensive for anything photo-like. A PNG of a photograph, or a screenshot full of images and gradients, can easily weigh several megabytes, and a PDF of ten of them adds up quickly. If you need a smaller file, choose a value under Target PDF size. The tool then converts each page to JPEG on a white background, lowering quality and size step by step until the PDF fits. That works well for size, but it means transparency is replaced by white and fine edges may soften slightly. For graphics where transparency matters, try the PNG compressor first.

Step by step

Five steps:

1. Press Choose images and add your photos or scans.
2. Put the pages in order and rotate any that are sideways.
3. Leave Target PDF size on 200 KB, or change it if your form allows more.
4. Press Create PDF and wait while the tool tries sizes.
5. Check the status line, then press Download PDF.

How the size reduction works

The tool works through a fixed ladder of settings. It starts at full size, with the longest side of each image capped at 3,000 pixels, and tries JPEG quality 90%, then 80%, 70% and so on down to 30%. If none of those fit, it shrinks the images to 85% of their size and runs through the qualities again, then 70%, 55% and finally 40%. That is five scale steps combined with seven quality steps. It stops at the very first combination that comes in under the limit, which means you get the sharpest version that fits rather than one that is needlessly small.

Keeping text readable at a small size

At 200 KB every byte counts, so give the compressor less to store. Photograph pages on a plain background with strong contrast between ink and paper. Crop away empty table, floor or margins before adding the images, using the crop tool. Include only the pages that are actually required. For printed or handwritten documents without colour, converting them with Grayscale Image first removes colour information the reader never needed, which often lets the tool keep a higher quality step. After downloading, open the PDF and zoom in to check that small print and signatures are still clear.

When 200 KB cannot be reached

Sometimes the amber message appears: the target was not reached. This usually happens with many pages, or with very detailed images such as colourful certificates and photos of busy scenes. At the smallest step the tool still has to store something readable for every page. Try removing pages that are not required, cropping each image tightly, or converting to grayscale. Also reread the portal's instructions: many limits apply per uploaded file, and a form may let you upload each document separately rather than as one combined PDF, which makes each file far easier to fit.

Other size limits

Not every form asks for 200 KB. Change the Target PDF size box to 100 KB for very strict portals, or to 500 KB or 1 MB when you have more room and want better quality. Choosing Custom shows a Maximum size in KB box where you can type any limit between 20 and 20,000 KB, for example 300 for a form that says 300 KB. Sizes are measured in decimal kilobytes, the way upload forms measure them, so 200 KB means 200,000 bytes. Set the limit slightly below the stated maximum if a portal has refused files that were right on the line.

JPG, HEIC, WEBP and more in one PDF

A typical set of documents rarely arrives in one format. Your phone may save HEIC, a website may hand you WEBP, a scanner may produce TIFF and an old camera BMP. You can add all of them in one go. Each file is decoded locally with the same readers TryImager's converters use, and photos taken on a phone are turned the right way up using the orientation the camera recorded. An SVG is drawn at its natural size, with the longest side capped at 4,000 pixels so a huge vector does not exhaust memory. Animated GIFs contribute a single still rather than an animation; this tool does not offer frame selection.

Mixing portrait, landscape and different formats

Real documents are rarely uniform. A form may be portrait while an attached map is landscape, and a screenshot may sit next to a phone photo. With orientation set to Auto, the decision is made separately for each page: wide images get landscape pages and tall images get portrait pages, so nothing is shrunk to fit the wrong shape. If you need every page facing the same way, for example for printing and stapling, choose Portrait or Landscape instead. Mixing formats is equally simple, because each file is decoded on its own before being placed on its page.

Putting pages in the right order

Every tile shows a page-number badge, so you can see at a glance where each image will land. On a computer, drag a tile by its picture and drop it in its new position; the numbers update immediately. On a touch screen, the Move earlier and Move later buttons are often easier than dragging. Keyboard users can focus a tile and move it with the arrow keys. A small habit saves time with long documents: rename the files 01, 02, 03 and so on before adding them. Most file pickers then sort them correctly, and the tiles arrive already in order.

Scanning a multi-page document with your phone

Lay each page on a flat, dark surface so its edges stand out, and photograph it in daylight near a window rather than under a ceiling lamp that casts your shadow across the paper. Hold the phone directly above the page and move closer until the page fills almost the whole frame. Keep the phone in the same orientation for every page so the set looks consistent, and take one photo per page rather than trying to fit two side by side. Check each picture for sharpness before moving to the next page. Then add all the photos here and merge them in order.

Getting the best quality

Because untouched JPG data goes straight into the PDF, the result can only be as good as the photo you start with. Use the original file from your camera or phone rather than a copy that was sent through a messaging app, which usually shrinks and recompresses images. Avoid taking screenshots of photos: a screenshot captures the screen's resolution, not the picture's, and adds extra blur. If you are photographing paper, do it near a window in daylight, hold the phone directly above the page and let it focus before you take the shot. Good light does more for sharp text than any setting in a converter.

Choosing page size, orientation and margins

Use A4 if you are in India, Europe or most of the world, and US Letter for offices in the United States and Canada; both print without scaling surprises. Fit to image makes every page the exact shape of its photo, which is best when the PDF will only be viewed on a screen and you do not want white borders. Orientation set to Auto turns each page sideways when its photo is landscape. The Small margin adds a narrow quarter-inch frame that keeps photos clear of a printer's unprintable edge, while Medium doubles that for a more formal look, for example when a document will be bound or stapled on one side.

Who uses JPG to PDF

Job seekers combine photographed certificates and ID cards into one file for an application. Students turn photos of handwritten assignments into a single PDF their teacher can open on any device. Employees collect pictures of receipts into one expense report instead of sending ten attachments. People dealing with insurance claims or property paperwork photograph policy pages, bills and damage, then send them as one organised document. In each case the receiver gets a single file that opens in any PDF reader, in the order you chose, and you avoid emailing loose photos that arrive out of sequence or get compressed by the mail service.