Merge PDF

To merge PDF files, add them to the box above, put them in the order you want and press the Merge button. This tool can also merge PDF and JPG files together, so a phone photo, a scanned certificate and a typed letter end up in one tidy document.

The basic merge runs entirely in your browser, so your files are not uploaded. Options that need more power, such as compressing the result or making scanned text searchable, are clearly marked before you use them.

Yes, you can merge PDF and JPG files into one PDF here, in a single step. Many documents people need to send are a mix: a typed application form as a PDF, plus photos of an Aadhaar card, a marksheet or a receipt taken on a phone. Instead of converting the photos first, add everything together and merge.

The tool accepts JPG and JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF (the first frame), BMP and iPhone HEIC photos. Multi-page TIFF files and Word, Excel and PowerPoint files are also accepted; they are converted to PDF on our server first, and the tool tells you so before it happens.

Phone photos are turned the right way up automatically. Cameras often save a picture sideways and only mark it as rotated, which is why photos can appear on their side in other tools. Here the rotation is applied before the photo becomes a page, so it comes out upright.

Under Options you can choose how photos become pages. Same as image keeps each photo at its own size, while A4, Letter or Legal place it on a standard page, and Match the first PDF uses the size of your first document. You can also pick portrait or landscape, add a small or large margin, and choose whether the photo fits inside the page or fills it.

A common example is an identity card. Take a photo of the front and the back, add both photos and your application PDF, and merge JPG and PDF into one PDF with the card front, card back and form in order. Transparent PNG images, such as a signature or a logo, are placed on a white page. If you only have photos and no PDF, JPG to PDF and Image to PDF turn them into a PDF on their own.

This is a way to merge PDF without watermark, sign-up or a daily allowance. The merged file contains only your pages: nothing is stamped on them, and there is no account to create and no email to give.

There is no limit on how many files you can merge and no limit on how many times you can use the tool, That is what merge PDF free no limit should really mean: no cap on files, on tasks or on pages. Many free tools stop you after two or three files, or after a few tasks an hour; this one does not.

The real limits come from your device, and we state them plainly. In the browser, each file can be up to 200 MB and all files together up to about 1 GB, which is what a typical phone or laptop can hold in memory comfortably. Options that run on our server, such as compression or OCR, accept up to 100 MB, and Word, Excel and PowerPoint files up to 50 MB.

The reason this can stay free is simple: the basic merge is done by your own browser, so it costs us almost nothing to run. Only the optional server steps use our machines, and those are designed to be quick and to delete your files straight away.

You can merge and compress a PDF in one step: turn on Compress after merging in Options, and the tool merges your files and then shrinks the result before you download it.

Merged files get large because each part keeps its own images at full size. A few phone photos can add several megabytes each, and scanned pages are pictures too, so a ten-page bundle can easily reach 10 MB or more.

There are two ways to compress. Choose a level (Less, Recommended, Extreme or Lossless) when you just want a smaller file. Choose an exact size, such as Under 500 KB or Under 1 MB, when a website sets a limit; the tool then works to get the merged file under that size while keeping the text sharp.

When it finishes you see both sizes, for example compressed from 8.4 MB to 940 KB, and a note confirming the file is under your limit. If a target is too small to reach while keeping the pages readable, the tool says so honestly and offers to go smaller anyway, rather than handing you an unreadable file without warning.

To merge and compress PDF files this way, the merged file is uploaded to our server once, compressed, sent back and deleted. The option shows an Uploads to our server label so you always know before it happens. If you skip compression, nothing leaves your browser.

Many job, exam and government portals accept only small files, often 1 MB, 500 KB or even 200 KB. To merge PDF under 1MB, open Options, choose Under 1 MB in Compress after merging, and merge as usual. The same works for 500 KB, 200 KB, 2 MB or a custom size.

The table shows typical limits and the option to choose. Always check the exact limit on the form you are filling in, because it can differ from one portal to another.

A few habits make small targets easier. Include only the pages the portal asks for, using the page range on each file or the Pages view. Scan documents in black and white rather than colour where colour is not needed. Photos taken in good light compress far better than dark, noisy ones.

If you only need to shrink a single document rather than combine several, the Compress PDF to 1 MB and Compress PDF to 200 KB tools are built for exactly that.

To merge scanned PDF pages in the right order, add the scans and arrange them in the Pages view, or let the tool interleave double-sided scans for you.

Many office and home scanners scan one side of a stack at a time. You end up with one file holding pages 1, 3 and 5, and a second file holding the backs, often in reverse order because the stack was turned over: pages 6, 4 and 2. Turn on Double-sided scan: interleave the first two files, keep Second file is in reverse order ticked, and the merged PDF comes out as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Scans taken with a phone are often slightly tilted or unevenly lit. The Straighten and clean scanned pages option evens out the lighting and straightens tilted pages, so the merged scanned PDF looks like it came off a proper scanner.

Scanned pages are pictures, so their text cannot normally be searched or copied. Make text searchable (OCR) reads the text and adds an invisible text layer, while each page looks exactly as it did. You can choose English, Hindi with English, Hindi and Marathi with English, or Marathi with English.

Straightening, cleaning and OCR run on our server, so the merged file is uploaded once for them and deleted afterwards. They are marked with an Uploads to our server label in Options.

To merge PDF with page numbers, open Options, tick Add page numbers and merge. Numbers are added in your browser, so this option needs no upload.

You choose where the numbers go (bottom or top, left, centre or right), the format, the number to start from, the size from 8 to 14 points, the margin and black or grey text. Skip the first page leaves a cover page unnumbered and starts counting from the next page. Numbers are placed the right way up even on pages you have rotated.

Bookmarks make a long merged document easy to move around. By default the tool adds a bookmark for each file, named after the file, and keeps the bookmarks your PDFs already had, so a bundle of five reports opens with a clickable outline. You can also add a table of contents page at the start that lists each file with its page number and links straight to it.

You can arrange, rotate and remove pages before you combine PDF files, without opening another tool.

The Files view shows one card per file with its first page, name, page count and size. Drag cards to reorder them, rotate a whole file, duplicate it, remove it, or type a page range such as 1-3, 5 to use only some of its pages. Sort the list by name or date, or reverse it, in one click.

The Pages view shows every page of every file. Drag a page anywhere, even into the middle of another file, rotate it, delete it, duplicate it or insert a blank page after it. Hold Shift or Ctrl to select several pages and rotate or delete them together, and use the size slider to make thumbnails bigger or smaller.

Every change can be undone with Undo or Ctrl+Z and redone with Ctrl+Y, so you can experiment freely before you combine PDF pages into the final file. For one-file jobs, Split PDF, Organize PDF, Rotate PDF and Delete PDF pages each do a single task.

You can merge PDF files on an Android phone or an iPhone in the browser, with nothing to install. Open this page, tap Select files and pick PDFs from your files, or photos from your gallery, including iPhone HEIC photos.

Drag the cards with your finger to reorder them; press and hold briefly on a page in the Pages view to pick it up. Tap Merge PDF, then Download, and the merged file is saved to your downloads, ready to attach to an email or upload to a portal.

On a phone, Options work just as on a computer, so you can merge PDF and photos, add page numbers and compress to 1 MB without switching apps.

By default, your files never leave your device: the merge is done by your own browser, and this page makes no upload when you use the standard options.

Some things cannot be done in a browser, so they run on our server: converting Word, Excel, PowerPoint and TIFF files, unlocking a password-protected PDF, compressing, OCR, cleaning scans and adding a password. Each of these is labelled before you use it.

When a file does go to our server, it travels over an encrypted HTTPS connection, is processed straight away and is deleted as soon as you download the result; anything not collected is deleted automatically within 15 minutes. There is no account, and nothing is shared.

Check the order before you merge PDF pages into one file. The Pages view shows every page at once, which makes a missing or repeated page easy to spot, especially in a bundle built from many photos.

Name the output file clearly. Change merged.pdf in Options to something like Anita-Sharma-application.pdf, so the person receiving it knows what it is; the name is also stored as the document title.

Keep page sizes consistent when it matters. If a bundle mixes A4 documents, Letter documents and odd-sized photos, Make all pages A4 gives it a uniform look for printing, at the cost of links and form fields on resized pages.

Rotate before you merge, not after. Turning a landscape table or a sideways photo in the Pages view takes one click, and the page numbers you add will still be placed the right way up.

Keep the originals. The merged PDF is a new file; your original files stay untouched on your device, so you can always merge them again in a different order. To edit the words inside the merged document, PDF to Word turns it into an editable Word file.