Convert JPG to PDF under 2 MB
Combine your photos or scans into one PDF of 2 MB or less, with room for a whole document at a quality that prints well.
- Runs in your browser
- Nothing is uploaded
- No sign-up
- Up to 20 pages in one PDF
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How to use the JPG to PDF 2 MB converter
Add your photos or scans, up to 20, and download one PDF under 2 MB. The limit is preset. Ten pages come out sharp enough to print and twenty remain readable; one or two pages are stored at nearly full quality. Arrange the pages with the arrows first.
- Add your picturesUp to 20 pages of photos or scans.
- Arrange the pagesThe arrows on each picture set the order.
- Download the PDFA whole document in one file under 2 MB.
About this tool
2 MB is enough for a complete document. Ten photographed pages keep about 1350 pixels of width each, which prints cleanly, and even the full 20 pages stay readable at about 900. A rental agreement, a set of mark sheets, a claim with its receipts, a portfolio of drawings: all fit in one file without visible strain.
With one or two pages the limit hardly bites. A single scanned page goes in at full size and a quality in the nineties, two keep their full size at a quality near 80, and a 12 megapixel photo keeps all its pixels. If you only ever make short PDFs and have 2 MB to work with, the result is close to what the original-quality setting on the general converter would give.
Use the room well by ordering the pages before you download. The numbers on the pictures in the list are the page numbers, and moving a picture updates the PDF straight away.
What you get
- Limit preset to 2 MB, and editable
- Ten pages at print quality, twenty still readable
- Short documents kept at nearly full quality
- Counted as 2,000,000 bytes
- Reorder, add and remove pages at any time
- Nothing is uploaded
When to use the JPG to PDF 2 MB converter
Complete document sets
Everything a bank, a landlord or an embassy asked for, in one file with the pages in the order of their checklist.
Agreements and deeds
A long signed agreement photographed page by page and kept as a single record.
Portfolios
Ten drawings or photographs sent as a PDF that opens on any device, each page shaped like its picture.
Coursework
A full assignment of handwritten pages uploaded where the platform allows 2 MB a file.
What 2 MB gives each page of text
| Pages in the PDF | Share for each page | Width of a full page of text | What reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 or 2 | 1 MB or more | Full size, at a high quality | Everything; as good as the source |
| 3 | About 666 KB | Full size, at quality 59 in a test | Everything; prints sharply |
| 5 | About 400 KB | About 2130 px | Everything; prints sharply |
| 10 | About 200 KB | About 1360 px | Everything; prints cleanly |
| 20 | About 100 KB | About 890 px | Ordinary print; the smallest print is soft |
How it works
There is a ceiling as well as a floor. No picture is saved above quality 96, and none is enlarged past its own pixels, so a share larger than a picture can use is simply left unspent. A single scanned page reached that ceiling at about 1.6 MB in a test, which is why a one-page PDF made here with a 2 MB limit comes out smaller than 2 MB. At the other end, twenty pages bring each share down to about 100 KB and the pictures to roughly a third of their original width.
Each page of the finished PDF is an ordinary JPEG image placed on a sheet. On paper sizes it is drawn inside the margin at up to 72 dots per inch, scaled down to fit if it is larger; on "Same shape as each picture" the sheet is cut to the picture and there is no margin. Either way the picture's bytes are the same, so the choice of paper has no effect on the 2 MB. The limit is 2,000,000 bytes, which a file manager shows as 1.91 MB.
Common problems and how to fix them
- The PDF is only 1.2 MB although the limit is 2 MB
- The pictures are already stored at their full size and the top quality. The limit is a maximum; the page does not pad the file to reach it.
- Twenty pages took a long time to make
- Twenty large photos mean twenty rounds of decoding and several encodings each. Give it a few seconds, and keep the tab open and in front while it works.
- Some pages are upright and some sideways
- That is the Auto direction following each picture. Choose Upright or Sideways to force every sheet the same way; pictures are then fitted into that sheet.
- I need more than 20 pages
- The page takes 20 pictures. Make two PDFs and combine them in a PDF program, or put two pages on one picture first with Join Images.
Frequently asked questions
Is a 2 MB PDF good enough to print?
For up to about ten pages, yes. In a test, ten full pages of text came out about 1360 pixels wide each, around 165 dots per inch on A4, which prints clearly. With one to three pages the pictures stay at full size.
My 2 MB PDF came out smaller than 2 MB. Why?
The pictures were already as good as they can be. A picture is never saved at a quality above 96 or enlarged beyond its own pixels, so a short document stops below the limit: there is nothing more to spend the room on.
Can I go above 2 MB if my portal allows 5 MB?
Yes. Type 5 in the size field with the unit on MB. For no limit at all, use Image to PDF on its original-quality setting, which copies JPGs in untouched.
Does every page have to be the same size or direction?
No. With the direction on Auto, each sheet turns to suit its own picture, so upright and sideways pages can be mixed in one PDF.
What is the difference between this and the 1 MB page?
Only the number the size field starts with. Twice the room gives each page about half as much width again, or a noticeably higher quality where the pictures are already at full size.
Should I choose a size limit or the original quality?
If nobody has set a limit, use the original-quality setting on Image to PDF: JPGs are copied in untouched. Use a limit only when a form or an email system makes you.
Will the PDF open on any device?
It is a plain PDF with one image on each page and no special features, which is the most widely supported kind. It has been opened in a browser's built-in viewer during testing; other readers were not tested.