How to Combine Photos into One PDF on iPhone

Q: Can I extract text from an image on iPhone with the app?

Yes, with Pro — OCR to Text saves the words as a .txt file, and OCR to PDF builds a searchable PDF instead.

When you need one PDF instead of loose photos

Expense receipts, contract pages you photographed, a booking screenshot, homework — an office, a school or a landlord generally wants one PDF, not ten separate attachments. Photos to PDF is free and needs no internet at all.

How to convert photos to PDF on iPhone, step by step

Open Printer App and tap Photos to PDF on the Home tab.
Select all the photos you want in the picker. There is no limit on the number.
Wait a moment while the pages are built on the device. A preview of the PDF opens.
Scroll through the preview and check the page order.
Tap Share to save it to Files or send it by Mail or AirDrop, or Print to print it. Tap Done to close.

What each page looks like

Every photo becomes one US Letter page (8.5 × 11 in), scaled to fit with no margin and centred. A landscape iPhone photo at 4032×3024 draws at 8.5 × 6.375 in, with a white band of about 2.3 in (166.5 pt) top and bottom. A portrait photo at 3024×4032 fills the full 11 in height at 8.25 in wide.

Photos to PDF at a glance
Question	Answer
Page size	US Letter, one photo per page
Margins	None; the photo is centred and scaled to fit
Cost	Free
Needs internet	No
Text searchable	No; the pages are pictures

How to make the PDF searchable or extract text from an image

A PDF built from photos is just pictures — you can't search it or copy a word out of it. Pro adds two options that run Apple's on-device text recognition:

OCR to PDF makes a PDF of your photos with an invisible text layer baked in, so you can search, select and copy the words.
OCR to Text saves just the words, as a plain .txt file with a Page heading per photo.
It reads the photos you hand it, not an existing PDF, and the result lives or dies on how sharp and well lit the photo was.

Tips

Shoot documents flat and straight from above — or use Scan Document instead when you want to print right away.
Crop screenshots in Photos first; there's no crop tool in this app.
Want several photos sharing one page instead of one per page? That's Photo Collage, not this.

Questions and answers

Is converting photos to PDF free?

Yes, free, no page limit.

Can I choose A4 pages?

No — pages come out US Letter. Print on A4 and iOS scales them to fit, so the proportions shift slightly.

Why are my pages in the wrong order?

Photos load in parallel, so the order on the page can differ from the order you tapped. Check the preview, then fix it with Reorder in PDF Tools (Pro) or just build smaller PDFs.

Can I extract text from an image on iPhone with the app?

Yes, with Pro — OCR to Text saves the words as a .txt file, and OCR to PDF builds a searchable PDF instead.

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