Job Photos to PDF
Drop in the photos you took on site, write a line under each one, and get back a single PDF with your business name at the top of every page. It is the document an adjuster, a general contractor or a homeowner actually wants, instead of eleven separate attachments.
How it works
- Pick the photos, or drag them onto the box. Phone photos are fine, and they come out the right way up.
- Write a caption under each one. Location, date, what the camera is looking at.
- Choose one, two or four photos per page, then download. The PDF is built on your own device.
What you get
- Your business name, phone and license number on every page
- The job address and the report date in the header
- A caption under every photo, in the order you set
- Photo numbers, so a caption can be quoted in a letter or an email
- One, two or four photos to a page
- Page numbers, and the file name you choose
Why a photo report beats eleven attachments
A roof inspection or a water damage walk through produces thirty photos in ten minutes. Sent as thirty attachments they arrive out of order, they get stripped by an email gateway, and nobody can tell which downspout is in the third picture. Sent as one PDF with captions they read as a document, and a document is what gets filed against a claim or a contract.
It also changes the argument. A photo with a caption reading "north elevation, hail bruising on the field, 14 May" is evidence. The same photo with the file name IMG_4471.jpg is not.
What the report is good for
Before and after documentation on a remodel, so the change order conversation starts from a picture. Existing damage recorded on day one, which is the cheapest insurance there is against being blamed for it on day thirty. Daily progress on a job that has a general contractor waiting on updates. Insurance supplements, where the adjuster wants the damage, the measurement and the location in one place.
Pair it with the free daily log and the two together make a complete record of what happened on site, which is what wins a dispute nine months later.
The photos stay on your device
This is the part most photo to PDF sites will not say plainly. On almost every one of them the images are uploaded to a server, converted there, and handed back as a download link. Yours are not. The file is assembled by your own browser, so a picture of a customer's kitchen, or their address written on a permit taped to a window, is never sent anywhere.
You can prove it: load this page, turn your internet off, and build a report anyway. It still works, because there is nothing here to connect to.
Photo sizes and file size
Modern phone photos are twelve megapixels and several megabytes each. Thirty of them at full size makes a PDF nobody can email. Each photo is resized to a long edge of 1600 pixels and saved as a JPEG before it goes in, which is more than enough detail to print at full page size and keeps a thirty photo report to a few megabytes.
HEIC files from an iPhone are handled if your browser can decode them, and most phone browsers can. If a photo will not load, the fastest fix is to open it in your phone's gallery and share it, which converts it to JPEG on the way out.
Questions people ask
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The PDF is built inside your browser using the same code that builds every other document on this site. There is no upload, no account and no copy kept.
Will iPhone photos come out sideways?
No. The orientation stored in the photo is read and applied, so a picture taken in portrait prints in portrait.
How many photos can I add?
There is no fixed limit, but a report over about a hundred photos will get slow on a phone because your device is doing all the work. Split a very large job into a report per area or per day, which reads better anyway.
Can I reorder the photos?
Yes. Every photo has up and down arrows, and the order in the list is the order in the report.
Does it work offline?
Once the page has loaded, yes. That is a side effect of doing the work on your device instead of on a server.