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Convert jpeg files to PDF under Linux

Submitted by Jozsef on February 8, 2008 - 12:06pm

How to convert jpg files to one PDF?

Requirements:

  • Linux

    is my favorite. But you can use any other distribution.


  • Type the follow line to Ubuntu commmand prompt for intall ImageMagick: 
    sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Convert from jpegs to PDF:

  • Go to the work directory (directory of jpegs):
    cd work/directory/path
  • Convert the JPG files to PDF:
    convert *.jpg foo.pdf

So easy, not?

Leave a comment if you can or can't convert your files?

Have you same problem in Windows? Download the . PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application that is able to print. (Not just JPG)

Another solution in Linux:

Any KDE application can print in PDF file (same method as PDFCreator). Select JPG-s and print in PDF.

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Comments

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on March 27, 2008 - 8:59am

Works perfectly. Really sweet. Thanks.

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on December 17, 2009 - 12:25am

Thanks a lot. It really worked suberb.

Submitted by on July 6, 2008 - 8:08pm

Works like a treat!

Submitted by on July 17, 2008 - 5:13am

Just what I needed. Thanks!

Submitted by on July 24, 2008 - 12:04am

Thank you, it works!!!
--> Mandriva 2008 One spring

Add the following lines to your KDE file:

vi .kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/PDF_merge_images_to_pdf.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
ServiceTypes=image/*
Actions=setAsPdf

[Desktop Action setAsPdf]
Name=Convertir a PDF
Icon=pdf
Exec=convert %U foo.pdf

Submitted by on August 27, 2008 - 9:32pm

This doesn't work for me with the wild card, if I do convert *.jpg foo.pdf, I get "can't find *.jpg" I'm using ubuntu.

thanks
mbs

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on September 1, 2008 - 7:45am

I got the same message first try. Remember - case sensitive so try *.JPG

Submitted by on August 27, 2008 - 9:35pm

It works...great. I was in the wrong directory the first time.

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on October 9, 2008 - 12:12pm

doesn't work for me, says it fails to find the file/directory...
i m doing something wrong, am i?

Submitted by Jozsef on October 17, 2008 - 11:25am

Hello,

Check your filenames. All file and directory name is case sensitive in linux. Check your command and modify it from *.jpg to *.JPG or something other correct extension.

Submitted by Ronah (not verified) on November 13, 2008 - 12:44pm

thanks. it works the way I expected. :D

Submitted by allen (not verified) on December 15, 2008 - 12:37am

I tried to run this on 40 jpeg pages, and ran out of memory, had to add another 500MB of swap,
most of the images were at 300 dpi, vmsize went past 2.2GB

Allen

Submitted by Jozsef on December 16, 2008 - 12:37am

Yes, you need to add more swap if you haven't got enough memory. The convertion will be slower with swap, but convert process does not ran out of memory.

Thx your comment.

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on January 29, 2009 - 1:04am

If there are text (as images) in jpeg does ImageMagick convert those to characters?

Submitted by Jozsef on February 20, 2009 - 10:40pm

No, it doesn't convert those to characters.

Submitted by Lukasz Rybka (not verified) on February 4, 2009 - 1:59pm

If you want to convert single file:
convert 000.jpg 000.pdf

But if you want to convert multiple jpgs to one PDF you have to add -adjoin param:
convert *.jpg -adjoin 000.pdf

It works on mine Ubuntu and it's what manual says about converting few images into multiimage PDF.

Submitted by mpcoc (not verified) on February 13, 2009 - 5:37pm

I tried to run this on 40 jpeg pages, and ran out of memory, had to add another 500MB of swap,
most of the images were at 300 dpi, vmsize went past 2.2GB

Submitted by on April 13, 2009 - 10:41pm

Converting more than a few images can be a little tricky using only the command line. To batch convert them, use F-Spot.

1. Open F-Spot.
2. Add the images you want to convert, they must be in the order you want them.
3. Click print, and select "Print to file"

Your output will be the PDF file.

Submitted by Trond (not verified) on August 26, 2009 - 12:30pm

Or you could simply do this: for x in *.jpg; do convert $x `basename $x jpg`pdf; done

Submitted by Lior Zimmerman (not verified) on June 20, 2009 - 12:45pm

first, let us change the name of the jpgs to pdf:
prename 's/\.jpg$/\.pdf/' *.jpg
then, join them with pdfjoin:
pdfjoin *.pdf

Done :)

Submitted by CAML (not verified) on July 5, 2009 - 12:35am

I'm new in linux. I've tried to convert *.jpg files into pdf and it worked...

Submitted by Al (not verified) on August 31, 2009 - 7:41pm

These command convert *.JPG wathever.pdf works perfectly!!
Thanxxx!!!

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on October 17, 2009 - 10:52pm

Thanks a lot. Everything works fine!

Submitted by on November 12, 2009 - 6:58am

Hi Thomas,

First of all thank you very much for mentioning about this tool.

I installed it and converted a bunch of files. All went smooth.

But the size of the pdf files generated were huge. This tool has a "compress" option but I don't know what value to pass.

So, I tried the suggestion (given in one of the comments) to use F-Spot and it worked sweetly.

And I managed to add 10 jpg files to F-Spot and select them all, click print, and chose the option to print to a pdf file.

Done. My jpg files were converted and that too with much less size.

Thanks anyway for everyone who gave your valuable thoughts.

Submitted by AJEDE (not verified) on November 24, 2009 - 8:03pm

Thanks a lot.
It worked like magic.

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on December 13, 2009 - 11:33pm

That is awesome!
Thank you mate!

Submitted by Vladimir (not verified) on December 30, 2009 - 9:56am

Yes, this is a goal.
Thahks!

Submitted by Fred (not verified) on January 15, 2010 - 8:58pm

Just magic. 'Have been working on Linux (Xubuntu) for over 2 years now, no looking back...

Thank you so much for sharing!

Submitted by on January 30, 2010 - 2:01pm

Hi
I tried that with the command line but every time my pdf is corrupt or damaged. If i convert one jpg file is ok if i convert multiple jpgs to a pdf file it gives me the damaged pdf file.

could you send me a replay to my email?

best regards
Sani

Submitted by gwern (not verified) on February 19, 2010 - 4:46pm

I should mention that the pdfjam solution is far more efficient than imagemagick, it seems. The former took my 69MB of files and gave me a 71MB PDF, while the latter gave me a 445MB (!) PDF.

Submitted by max (not verified) on March 3, 2010 - 12:54am

Doesn't work for me. It says "segmentation error" after a long while... Is there a limit for the number of pictures to put ?

Submitted by balmydrizzle (not verified) on August 20, 2010 - 4:43am

Cause I tried that version & the command is hung there.

Submitted by Rmitboy (not verified) on March 21, 2010 - 6:12pm

Thank you so much!

Submitted by Marco (not verified) on May 24, 2010 - 9:05pm

Simply amazing!!

Submitted by Masoud (not verified) on June 13, 2010 - 1:22pm

That's fantastic! I knew how to print to pdf using print menu in the GNOME Image viewer, but it adds nasty white margins and a very large file size. This method doesn't have such drawbacks. Thanks! :)

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on July 14, 2010 - 9:24am

Nice! if images have different sizes, can i tell imagemagick to convert resize them on the fly? something like
convert *jpeg -page 1400X1600 filename.pdf ?

Submitted by Stea (not verified) on August 5, 2010 - 5:31pm

Nice:)

Submitted by Peter Funk (not verified) on September 17, 2010 - 6:12pm

Example: four DIN A4 sized 150 dpi jpeg-files (each about 330 kB on disk) resulted in a 23 MB PDF file without compression. Using the command:

convert -compress jpeg *.jpg output.pdf

created a PDF with reasonable 1.3 MB instead.

Submitted by Michaelos (not verified) on October 5, 2010 - 4:54am

This really worked for me just fine :).

Long live imagemagick !!!

Submitted by Alpa (not verified) on October 28, 2010 - 10:08pm

I need to convert PDF to JPG, my PDF has form fields (Textbox, dropdowns) on it and this conversion produces junk image which says I need to upgrade my PDF version to read it. I have a latest PDF reader. Have the same problem when I use pdftk to merge this form fields PDF with other PDFs, all other PDFs gets merged but the one with controls shows the same error message - need to upgrade PDF version.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on December 1, 2010 - 7:36pm

Thanks!

Submitted by DiegoV (not verified) on December 9, 2010 - 7:12pm

It's really magic.

Submitted by Emma (not verified) on May 5, 2013 - 5:42pm

Thank you :)

Submitted by bop_pop (not verified) on August 15, 2013 - 6:58am

convert -destiny 300 (or 600, 1200.....) *.jpg foo.pdf - quality of convertation
convert -scale 2000x1000 (or......) *.jpg foo.pdf exact resolution

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