Image & photo to PDF

Image to PDF

Online image-to-PDF converters ask you to upload your pictures to a stranger's server. Paperly does the same conversion on the device: import the photos, arrange the pages, export the PDF. The images never leave your computer or phone.

Paperly PDF editor tools for merging, splitting, and organizing pages

What it is

Converting an image to PDF means wrapping one or more photos in a PDF document so they can be shared, printed, and archived as pages. Paperly imports pictures from Photos or Files, lets you clean and order them, and produces a single PDF — without sending your images to a converter website.

When you reach for it

  • Photos of whiteboards, notes, or book pages need to become one document
  • A form was photographed instead of scanned and must be sent as a PDF
  • Screenshots or images need to be archived together in order
  • A recipient specifically asked for a PDF instead of a camera roll dump

How Paperly does it

  1. 01

    Import the images

    Pick photos from your library or files from the Files app. Paperly lines them up as pages in a new document.

  2. 02

    Clean and arrange

    Apply the same crop and cleanup the scanner uses, drag pages into order, and run OCR so the text inside the photos becomes searchable.

  3. 03

    Export as one PDF

    Share or save a single PDF with every image as a page — compressed to a sensible size if you need it smaller.

Questions people ask

Yes. The conversion happens entirely on your device. Unlike web converters, your images are never uploaded, queued, or stored on anyone else's server.

Yes. Imported images and freshly scanned pages live in the same document, so a PDF can mix camera photos, imports, and new scans in any order.

Paperly keeps the file sensible, and the compression tool can shrink it further while keeping the pages readable — useful before emailing.

Related features

Try image to pdf where it runs best.

Paperly for iPhone — private, on-device, and free to download.