Image to PDF & PDF to Image Converter – JPG, PNG, WebP

Convert images to PDF and PDF to images in bulk, from URLs, with one API call:

• Images to PDF (JPG to PDF, PNG to PDF, WebP/HEIC to PDF): combine many images into one PDF, make one PDF per image, or build several named PDFs in one run. A4, US Letter, Legal, A3, A5 or fit to image, automatic portrait/landscape, margins, and compression options. JPG photos are embedded byte-for-byte (no quality loss).
• PDF to images (PDF to JPG, PDF to PNG, PDF to WebP): render every page, or a page range, at the DPI you choose (default 150). Optional ZIP per PDF and thumbnail mode (first page only).

Every output file is saved with a public download link, and you get one dataset row per PDF created or per page rendered. There is no browser and no proxy, so it is fast and cheap: $0.002 per page in either direction, plus $0.001 per PDF created.

What it does

• Image to PDF converter: accepts JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC/HEIF (iPhone photos), AVIF, TIFF, BMP and GIF (first frame). Images go into the PDF in the order you list them.
• Three output modes: one combined PDF (default), one PDF per image (batch JPG to PDF), or pdfGroups, where each named group of image URLs becomes its own PDF, e.g. one PDF per invoice, order or customer.
• Page layout: A4, Letter, Legal, A3, A5, or fit to image (the page has exactly the size of the image). The orientation is automatic (landscape pages for wide images) or forced. Margins are in millimetres. Each image is scaled to fit and centred, keeping its aspect ratio. EXIF rotation from phone photos is applied.
• Compression: auto keeps JPGs unchanged, keeps PNG/GIF/TIFF lossless and stores WebP/HEIC/AVIF as JPG. jpeg makes the smallest PDF by re-encoding everything at your quality. lossless means no quality loss at all. You can also downscale big photos (maxImageSize, e.g. 2000 px) to shrink the PDF about 4×. Transparent images get a white (or custom) background.
• PDF to image converter: uses Google's PDFium engine (the same engine Chrome uses), so fonts, vector graphics, form fields and annotations render correctly. Output is PNG (sharpest for text), JPG or WebP (smallest), at 36–600 DPI, with an optional grayscale mode.
• Page ranges: 1-5, 1,3,10-, or -3--1 for the last three pages. You only pay for pages rendered.
• ZIP per PDF: all page images of a PDF in one ZIP, free. Every page row contains the zipUrl.
• Thumbnails: the first page at a fixed width (default 400 px) for previews, catalogues and document libraries.
• Password-protected PDFs open with pdfPassword.
• Share links work: Google Drive, Dropbox and GitHub blob links (and arXiv /abs/ pages) are turned into direct downloads.
• Robust: downloads are retried with backoff (honouring Retry-After), and there is a file size limit. Each failure becomes a free error row with a clear errorCode, and the run carries on. Codes include http-404, not-an-image, is-a-pdf, not-a-pdf, invalid-pdf, password-required, wrong-password, too-large, invalid-url and invalid-page-range.

Use cases

• Receipts, invoices and delivery photos to PDF: merge the photos of each order into one PDF per order with pdfGroups, ready for accounting or e-mail.
• Scanned pages and phone photos (HEIC) to PDF: make a multi-page A4 document from page photos.
• E-commerce and real estate: product or property photo sets as PDF catalogues or brochures.
• PDF to JPG/PNG for the web: show PDF pages as images in a CMS, shop, blog, or social post.
• PDF thumbnails: cover images for document libraries, search results, LMS courses and Notion/Airtable records.
• OCR and AI pipelines: render PDF pages at 300 DPI for OCR engines or vision LLMs (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini) that take images.
• Automation: Make, Zapier, n8n or a webhook sends URLs and gets download links back.

Input example: images to PDF

{
  "operation": "images-to-pdf",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianare/exif-samples/master/jpg/gps/DSCN0010.jpg",
    "https://www.gstatic.com/webp/gallery/1.webp",
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/master/inputs/children-alpha.png"
  ],
  "pdfMode": "combine",
  "outputFileName": "holiday-photos",
  "pageSize": "A4",
  "orientation": "auto",
  "marginMm": 10,
  "imageCompression": "auto"
}

Several PDFs in one run:

{
  "operation": "images-to-pdf",
  "pdfGroups": [
    { "name": "order-1042", "imageUrls": ["https://example.com/1042-a.jpg", "https://example.com/1042-b.heic"] },
    { "name": "order-1043", "imageUrls": ["https://example.com/1043.png"] }
  ],
  "pageSize": "Letter"
}

Input example: PDF to images

{
  "operation": "pdf-to-images",
  "pdfUrls": ["https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf"],
  "imageFormat": "png",
  "dpi": 150,
  "pageRange": "1-2",
  "createZip": true
}

If you click Start with an empty input, a small demo runs (3 sample images → 1 A4 PDF), so you can see the output right away.

Output example

One row per PDF created:

{
  "type": "pdf",
  "status": "ok",
  "fileName": "holiday-photos.pdf",
  "pdfUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/STORE_ID/records/001-holiday-photos.pdf",
  "pageCount": 3,
  "pdfBytes": 440995,
  "imagesRequested": 4,
  "imagesFailed": 1,
  "pageSize": "A4",
  "orientation": "auto",
  "marginMm": 10,
  "imageCompression": "auto",
  "images": [
    { "url": "https://…/DSCN0010.jpg", "sourceFormat": "jpg", "width": 640, "height": 480, "embeddedAs": "jpg (original, lossless pass-through)" },
    { "url": "https://…/1.webp", "sourceFormat": "webp", "width": 550, "height": 368, "embeddedAs": "jpg (q85)" }
  ]
}

One row per page rendered:

{
  "type": "page",
  "status": "ok",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf",
  "fileName": "fw9.pdf",
  "page": 1,
  "pageCount": 6,
  "imageUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/STORE_ID/records/001-fw9-page-0001.png",
  "format": "png",
  "width": 1275,
  "height": 1650,
  "dpi": 150,
  "bytes": 551997,
  "zipUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/STORE_ID/records/001-fw9-pages.zip",
  "pdfTitle": "Form W-9 (Rev. March 2024)"
}

Failures appear as free rows with "type": "error", an errorCode and a readable error. A SUMMARY record in the key-value store holds the run totals. The Output tab has separate views for PDFs, Page images and Errors.

Pricing

Pay only for results. Errors, skipped images, ZIPs and the summary are free.

Event	Price
Page added to a PDF (image-page)	$0.002
PDF created (pdf-created)	$0.001
PDF page rendered to an image (page-rendered; pages above 10 megapixels, e.g. 600 DPI, count once per started 10 MP)	$0.002
Actor start	$0.00005

Examples: 1 image → 1 PDF = $0.003. 10 photos → 1 PDF = $0.021. A 100-page PDF → 100 PNGs = $0.20.

How it compares (Apify Store, October 2026):

Actor	Images to PDF	PDF to images	ZIP
This Actor	$0.002 / page + $0.001 / PDF	$0.002 / page	free
akash9078/image-pdf-converter	$0.005 / converted file	$0.005 / page	–
hipersoft/images-to-pdf	$0.005 / PDF	–	–
programmersoham/pdf-to-jpg-converter	–	$0.005 / page	$0.05

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options. The Actor stops cleanly when the limit is reached, keeps everything already created, and marks a cut-off PDF as partial.

FAQ

Does converting JPG to PDF reduce quality? No. With the default auto compression, JPG files are embedded unchanged (lossless pass-through), so the PDF is about the size of the photos. Choose jpeg with a lower quality or set maxImageSize when you need a smaller PDF.

Can I convert iPhone HEIC photos to PDF? Yes. HEIC/HEIF, AVIF and WebP are decoded and stored as high-quality JPG inside the PDF.

How do I get one PDF per image? Set pdfMode to per-image. To get one PDF per order or customer, use pdfGroups.

Which DPI should I use for PDF to image? 72 for small previews, 150 (the default) for screens and the web, 300 for print and OCR. PNG is the sharpest for text, JPG suits photos, and WebP gives the smallest files.

How do I download all page images at once? Turn on createZip. Each PDF gets a free ZIP, and its link is in every page row (zipUrl). You can also find every file under Storage → Key-value store.

My PDF is password-protected. Set pdfPassword. Without it the row reports password-required, and you are not charged.

How many images can go into one PDF? Hundreds. All images of one PDF are held in memory while the PDF is built, so for more than about 150 large phone photos in a single PDF, use 2–4 GB memory or set maxImageSize.

How long are the files kept? As long as the run's storage is kept on your Apify account (unnamed storages expire with your plan's data retention period). Download or copy them to your own storage if you need them for longer.

Can it extract the text of a PDF? This Actor converts files. For text or Markdown, use our PDF to Text & Markdown Actor (gazidev/pdf-text-extractor).

Use with AI agents / Apify MCP

The Actor works as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, LangChain, n8n AI agents). An agent can call gazidev/pdf-image-converter with {"operation": "pdf-to-images", "pdfUrls": [...], "dpi": 150} to "see" PDF pages as images, or with {"imageUrls": [...]} to turn screenshots or photos into a shareable PDF link. The inputs are small and flat, and the outputs are plain JSON with download URLs, which makes it easy for LLMs to use.

API example (synchronous run, returns the dataset items):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/gazidev~pdf-image-converter/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"operation":"pdf-to-images","pdfUrls":["https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf"],"imageFormat":"jpg","pageRange":"1"}'

Notes

• Only process files you have the right to use. The Actor downloads the URLs you give it and nothing else.
• Built with img2pdf, pikepdf, PDFium (pypdfium2), Pillow and pillow-heif.