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JPG to PDF Converter

Convert Image to PDF, JPG to PDF, PNG to PDF – Combine Images to PDF?

Many often there is a requirement to convert Images to PDF. The requirements include need to convert JPG to PDF. 

 

This requirement has increased substantially due to the ongoing scenario, wherein schools are left with no other option but to conduct examinations from home. This leaves the students with the burden of sending the examination sheets to the teachers. 

 

 

Most of the time the requirement is to capture the answer sheets and send as an attachment. It would have been easier for students if they need to just send the images. However, this will obviously lead to lots of challenges at teachers end; as it will be very difficult for them to check answers from different image files.

 

 

So, schools are urging students to send the images in form of a single document in PDF form. Now, comes the challenge – How to combine multiple images to PDF file? 

 

 

Does IrfanView  the fastest image viewer and editing tool come to our rescue? Off-course, it does. 

 

Steps to convert multiple images to PDF using IrfanView

 

  • Open IrfanView image viewer and editor
  • Select Options > Multiple images>Create Multiple PDF…(Plugin)

  • You will get a pop-up screen in which you can chose the output directory (1), the output filename (2) Select the images that you need to combine. After this you can add the images (3)

 

  • You also get to see the preview of the images that you choose: 

  • If the order of selected images is not correct, you can use the buttons to change the order by selecting “Move Files up/Down” options.
  • Once everything is ready; click on the “Create PDF Image” to generate pdf file.

  • The Oops moment: Please ensure that you have plugins installed otherwise you may run into an error while trying to generate the PDF.  

  • If you have the required plugins installed, you will get a success message.

  • Here’s the output PDF from the 3 images that we selected:

Conclusion

Once again, IrfanView has been successful in quickly helping us combine multiple images to generate PDF.  

It’s fast, quick, easy and flexible. Isn’t it?

References

IrfanView Official site

IrfanView Wikipedia site

Irfanview – The Fastest Image Viewer & Editor

 

IrfanView is the fastest, intuitive, powerful free image viewer and editor.

 

The lightning speed at which this tool is able to open images has no match. 

 

IrfanView has been highly popular tool ever since it’s first release in 1996. It is completely free for personal use and that too without any annoying Shareware messages like “I Agree” or “Evaluation expired”.

 

It’s small footprint (size) of about 3.4 MB and the power it brings in is simply unimaginable.

 

Huge User Base

IrfanView has been highly popular tool ever since it’s first release in 1996. Since year 2003, IrfanView has over 1 Million downloads every month. 

I have been using this tool for over 2 decades, and it gets better with each release. You can read some info on IrfanView Wikipedia link. 

What makes IrfanView so very popular?

The speed, features and continuous development have resulted in widespread popularity of the tool. 

 

As per Wikipedia, “In a series of image quality tests conducted in 2004, compared with commercial image compressors and Adobe Photoshop 7, Irfanview 3.91 produced “consistently better images than the Adobe Photoshop JPEG encoder at the same data rate”, and its JPEG2000 compression quality “closely followed” the best codec.“

 

Interesting features of Irfanview that have made it a must have utility:

 

  • Cut, Copy, Crop
  • Auto Crop Borders
  • Create Panorama Image
  • Rotate – Left, Right
  • Flip – Verticle and Horizontal
  • Image Resize
  • Convert to Grayscale, Negative
  • Image Effects
  • Color Corrections
  • Save Image in multiple formats including PDF
  • Add overlay text/image (watermark)
  • Image Rotation, Crop and EXIF / IPTC Info
  • Screen Capturing
  • 32 and 64 bit version
  • Huge list of supported file formats – Note: for some formats; plugins are required
  • Thumbnail/preview option
  • Edit Image (Paint) option – to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
  • Fast directory view (moving through directory)
  • Batch conversion (with advanced image processing of all files)
  • Multipage TIF editing
  • Multiple undo steps
  • Scan (batch scan) support
  • Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)

Practical useful Feature – Combine Images to PDF?

Due to the ongoing scenario, schools are left with no other option but to conduct examinations from home. This leaves the students with the burden of sending the examination sheets to the teachers. 

Most of the time the requirement is to capture the answer sheets and send as an attachment. It would have been easier for students if they need to just send the images. However, many schools are urging students to send the images in form of a single document in PDF form; which will ease out the work of the teachers as then they have to use only single document to check. 

If you have such requirement, don’t forget to read our article on how to convert JPG to PDF document using our  favorite and fastest image viewer and editing tool – IrfanView. 

Need more Features?

If you are looking for additional power and features, don’t worry. Several others who found IrfanView an excellent tool, have contributed to it’s by writing powerful plugins that further enhance the power of this awesome tool. 

Good thing is that like Irfanview, both 32 and 64 bit versions of the plugins are available. You can download these plugins from here.

Where to Download?

IrfanView is available both for Windows 32 and 64 bit versions. 

You can download from these links: 32 bit or 64 bit.

Conclusion

Irfanview is faster, powerful and much more flexible than the operating system’s default. It’s shortcuts are quite intuitive.

 

Go, make it the default image viewer on your machine. This is the first step of getting my new machine ready.

 

I am sure you gonna love it!!