How it works
- Drop your images on the page, choose them, or on a phone, take a photo.
- Drag them into order, or use the arrows. Rotate any image that came out sideways.
- Choose the page size: fit each page to its image, or put every image on A4 or Letter.
- Download the PDF.
Each image becomes one page, centred and the right way up. Photos are turned upright using the information your camera saved, and transparent PNGs get a white background.
Nothing is uploaded
Most “JPG to PDF” websites upload your photos to their servers. That is slow, often limited, and not where you want to send photos of IDs, contracts or bank slips. SmallKits builds the PDF inside your browser. You can switch on flight mode after the page has loaded and it still works.
Make scans look like scans
Photographing paper documents with a phone? Tick “Clean up scanned documents” and pages are turned black and white with stronger contrast, so grey shadows disappear and the text stands out. It also makes the file much smaller.
Smaller or sharper
Choose Smaller file for email and upload forms with size limits, Balanced for everyday use, or Best for printing. Huge photos are resized before they are added, so the PDF stays a reasonable size.
Formats
JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and BMP work everywhere. HEIC photos from iPhones work in Safari; in other browsers, set your iPhone camera to “Most compatible” (Settings, Camera, Formats) or export the photos as JPG.
What next
Need to add the result to another PDF? Use Merge PDF. Still too big for email? Run it through Compress PDF. Need a signature on it? Use Fill and sign PDF.
A worked example
A job application asks for your ID, two certificates and a reference letter as one PDF under 5 MB. You photograph each document on a table in good light, open Images to PDF on your phone and tap “Take a photo” four times, or choose the photos from your gallery. You put the ID first, rotate one certificate that came out sideways, choose A4, Small margins and “Smaller file”, and tick “Clean up scanned documents”. The result is a clean, four-page, black-and-white PDF of about 1 MB, ready to upload.
Tips for good phone scans
- Use daylight or a bright, even light. Avoid your own shadow over the page.
- Hold the phone directly above the page, parallel to it, so the page is not skewed.
- Put the page on a dark surface so the edges stand out.
- Fill the frame with the page, and tap the screen to focus on the text.
- Turn off the flash for glossy paper to avoid glare.
Page size explained
Fit image makes each page the shape of its photo, which suits photos and screenshots. A4 and Letter put every image on a standard page, centred and scaled to fit, which suits documents you will print or submit. Landscape images automatically get landscape pages, and Small margins leave a white border so nothing is cut off when printing.
Privacy matters most for documents
The photos people turn into PDFs are often the most sensitive files they have: IDs, passports, payslips, bank statements and contracts. Because SmallKits never uploads them, there is no copy on a server to be leaked, sold or kept longer than you expect.
Problems and fixes
- An image is sideways: use the rotate button under its thumbnail.
- The file is too big: choose Smaller file, or run the result through Compress PDF.
- An iPhone photo will not open: it is probably HEIC; open the page in Safari, or export the photo as JPG.
- Grey, shadowy scans: tick the scan clean-up option.
Terms explained
- HEIC
- The photo format iPhones use by default.
- EXIF
- Information a camera saves with a photo, including which way up it was taken.
Everything you choose here is remembered only while the page is open. Close the tab and the images are gone from the page, because they were never stored anywhere else.
Related free tools
- Free merge PDF tool: to add the result to other PDFs.
- Free fill and sign PDF tool: to sign the document you just made.
Updated 2026-10-29