Turn my photos into one PDF

When you need this

You have photographed six pages of a document and the form wants one PDF. Receipts for a claim. A handwritten letter. Certificates you do not have soft copies of. Sending nine separate JPGs when the instruction said "attach the documents as a single PDF" is one of the most common reasons an application gets sent back.

How to use it

1. Add the photographs in the order they should appear. Each one becomes a page.
2. Check the order before saving — phone galleries do not always hand files over in the order you expect, especially when the names are IMG_0231 and IMG_231.
3. Save the PDF and open it once to confirm the pages read correctly.

What it does and does not do

• Each photograph becomes a page at its own shape, so a tall photo does not get stretched to fill A4.
• It does not flatten or straighten the page. The photo goes in as taken. If you are photographing a document rather than a picture, scan a document with my camera gives a far better result — flat, square to the edges, readable, and a much smaller file.
• Photographs make heavy PDFs. Six phone photos can easily make a 15MB file, which most portals refuse.
• HEIC photos from an iPhone work, and so do JPG, PNG and WEBP.

If something goes wrong

• The PDF is too big. Expected with photographs. Run it through make my PDF smaller with the portal's limit.
• A page is sideways. Use turn my PDF pages the right way up.
• The pages came out in the wrong order. Fix it with split, delete or reorder PDF pages rather than starting again.
• The document is hard to read. Daylight near a window, the page flat on a table, phone directly above it rather than at an angle. Or use the camera scan tool, which fixes the angle for you.