Photos into a PDF you already have
An application form arrives as a PDF and wants a photo of a receipt after page two; a report needs three site photos at the end. Open the PDF together with the photos and its pages join the strip as locked page cards, marked with their page number. Drag any photo between them, or press “Photos after the PDF” or “Photos before the PDF” to put them all on one side. The photo pages use the full page setup — A4 or Letter, margins, two to a page — while each page of your PDF keeps its own size.
A worked example: a four-page PDF (three A4 pages of text and a landscape Letter page) and two photos, with “Photos before the PDF”, became a six-page file of 62,007 bytes. The text on pages three to six could still be selected and copied out, word for word, and the landscape page kept its own size.
Copied, not redrawn
Most tools that merge a PDF with images render every page of the PDF to a picture and build a new document from the pictures, which turns sharp text into blurry pixels and makes it impossible to select or search. Here the pages of your PDF are copied into the new file object by object — the page’s content, its fonts and its images, byte for byte — so the result is exactly as sharp as the original. The cards in the strip are drawn stand-ins showing each page’s shape and number; the PDF’s pages are not rendered on screen, and they do not need to be to be copied.
What it leaves alone
It does not edit the original pages, add photos on top of them, fill forms or sign. Links, comments and form fields on the original pages are not carried over, because they belong to the old document’s structure. For a PDF made only from photos, start at convert photos to PDF; to keep the result under an upload limit, see the size-limited builder; and JPG to PDF explains how photo pages are copied without recompression too.
Questions about add photos to a PDF
Are the PDF's own pages changed?
No. They are copied into the new file as PDF objects — their text, fonts and images exactly as they were — never redrawn as pictures and never re-compressed. Text that could be selected in the original can still be selected. The receipt counts them as “from your PDF, unchanged”.
Can I put a photo on top of an existing page?
No. This adds pages; it does not edit them. Placing a photo on a page, filling a form, signing, or changing the text are editor jobs this tool does not do.
Are my files uploaded?
No. The PDF and the photos are read by this browser and the new file is written here. Nothing is sent, which matters for the kind of PDF people add photos to — an application, a claim, a contract.
What does the PDF contain?
Your PDF's pages as they were, and the photo pages as images, in the order you set. No file names, no camera or location data, and no title unless you type one; links and comments on the original pages are not carried over.
Which PDFs will not open?
Password-protected PDFs are refused with that reason; this tool does not open protected files. Damaged files are read where the pages can still be found.