Papery

Turn photos and images into one clean PDF, privately in your browser.

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Try it online: https://pdf.richology.cn/

Papery is a free, lightweight image-to-PDF tool. Add multiple images, arrange them in the right order, rotate them when needed, and export a polished PDF without uploading your files to a server.

     

Why I built Papery

I once needed to turn several paper contracts into a single PDF. I only had my phone with me, so taking photos was the obvious solution—but it immediately exposed two problems:

1. Phone cameras usually save scans as JPG, PNG, or other image files. A set of separate photos is not a single, continuous PDF that is easy to send, review, or archive.
2. Many PDF creation tools put this basic workflow behind a paywall, require an account, add watermarks, or ask you to upload sensitive documents.

I wanted a simpler option: open a webpage, select the photos, put them in order, and download one PDF. That small need became Papery.

Where it helps

Papery is useful whenever several images need to become one shareable document:

• Contracts and signed documents — photograph every page and combine them in the correct order.
• Receipts and reimbursements — collect meal, travel, and purchase receipts into one expense file.
• Class notes and study materials — turn notebook pages, handouts, and whiteboard photos into a single PDF.
• Forms and applications — package photographed forms and supporting documents for submission.
• Portfolios and field reports — organize sketches, inspection photos, or site records into one document.
• Personal archives — preserve letters, certificates, recipes, or family documents in a format that is easier to store and share.

Features

• Add multiple images by file picker or drag and drop
• Reorder pages by dragging thumbnails
• Rotate or remove individual images before export
• Choose A4, Letter, or original image dimensions
• Adjust image quality to balance clarity and file size
• Add optional page numbers
• Process up to 200 images, with automatic resizing for very large dimensions
• Generate and download the PDF directly in your browser
• Switch between English and Chinese in the web interface

Privacy first

Your files stay on your device. Image processing and PDF generation happen locally in the browser; Papery does not upload your contracts, receipts, notes, or photos to a server.

This also means that processing speed and memory usage depend on your device, especially when working with many high-resolution photos.

How to use it

1. Open Papery.
2. Select or drag in your images.
3. Reorder, rotate, or remove pages in the preview area.
4. Choose the page size, image quality, and page-number preference.
5. Click Export PDF to download the finished document.

Install and run

Papery is a static web app with no build step.

With a coding agent

Paste the repository URL into Codex, Claude Code, or another coding agent and ask it to clone and run the project:

Clone and run this project locally: https://github.com/Richology/image-pdf

From the command line

Clone the repository and serve the directory with any local HTTP server:

git clone https://github.com/Richology/image-pdf.git
cd image-pdf
python3 -m http.server 8000

Then open http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

Built with

• HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript
• jsPDF for PDF generation
• SortableJS for drag-and-drop page ordering

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. If you have an idea, find a bug, want to improve accessibility or translations, or can make the workflow better, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

For a pull request, please keep the change focused, explain the problem it solves, and test the image-to-PDF flow in a modern browser.

License

Papery is released under the MIT License. You may use, modify, and distribute it under the terms of that license. Third-party libraries included in this repository remain subject to their respective licenses.