How to turn photos into one PDF
A form asks for "one PDF" and you have five photos of documents. Sending five separate pictures is messy and often not accepted. Putting them into a single PDF takes a minute and everything stays on your device.
Take good photos first
A readable PDF starts with a readable photo. Lay the document flat, photograph it from straight above in good light, and avoid shadows from your phone or hand. Fill the frame with the page so the text is as large as possible.
Step by step
- Open the Filesmingo board and drop all the photos onto it.
- Select one photo and open the Combine tab to put several pictures in one PDF. For a single picture use the To PDF tab.
- Use the arrows to put the pictures in the order you want. That is the order of the pages.
- Pick the page size, A4 full width is a good default, and the margin, then create the PDF and download it.
What happens to a very tall image
With A4 full width, the picture fills the width of the page. A long screenshot that is taller than one page is cut into several pages without losing sharpness, so text stays readable and you do not get a tiny picture floating on a big blank page.
Keep the PDF small enough to send
Photos from a phone are large, so a PDF made from many of them can be heavy. If there is an upload limit, compress the images first or compress the finished PDF, then check that the text is still readable before you send it.
Check before you send
Scroll through every page once. Make sure the order is right, nothing is cut off at the edges, and no page is upside down. If a page is wrong, fix the photo and create the PDF again.