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Photos to a Shareable PDF

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Turn photographs of documents into a single, properly sized PDF that is small enough to submit or email.

Why this recipe exists

Photographing a document with a phone is the fastest way to digitise it and the worst way to share it: you end up with several 4 MB images, in the wrong orientation for A4, that no submission portal will accept. This recipe downscales each photo to a sensible document resolution, compresses it, places each one on its own A4 page, and then compresses the assembled PDF to fit under 2 MB — the limit most government and university upload forms enforce.

What it does

  1. Downscale each photo to 1600px
  2. Compress each photo under 400 KB
  3. Place each photo on its own A4 page
  4. Compress the PDF under 2 MB
  5. Verify the document is under 2 MB

FAQ

Are my documents uploaded?
No. Resizing, compression and PDF assembly all happen in your browser. Given these are usually IDs, bank statements or signed forms, that is the whole point.
Will the text in my photos still be readable?
Yes. 1600 pixels on the long edge is comfortably enough to read printed text on an A4 page. Going higher mostly adds file size rather than legibility.
Can I control the page order?
Pages follow the order the images are listed, so add them in the sequence you want.

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