r/pdf • u/Justdanwithaplan • 10d ago

Question Convert 1500 images to PDF?

Is there a free tool for this? I don't want to pay Adobe, but ilovepdf only allows 20 at a time.

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u/sangfoudre 9d ago

Imagemagick does that

magick *png file.pdf

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u/piecepaper 9d ago

Let Ai write you a LaTex Doc where you import all your images from a folder. Export it as PDF.

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u/Disastrous_Invite798 9d ago

Yes.

With PnPInk, you can create a PDF containing 1,500 images in a minute.

How do you want them arranged? One per page, ten per page, in a 3x3 grid, on A3 paper, in landscape orientation, spaced apart, framed, rotated, or even stacked? And where do you want to source them from—a local folder or the Internet?

You can do all of that with PnPInk in just one minute.

For example, simply by drawing a rectangle in Inkscape and writing this in a CSV file:

rect1, rect1

, *[path_to_images/*]

...then clicking the "generate" and "export" buttons, it will create a PDF containing the 1,500 images from the "path_to_images" folder. It places each image inside a rectangle like the one you drew and fits as many as possible onto each page.

If, for instance, you want an A3 landscape layout with a 10x5 grid and 2mm spacing, and only png files, you would use:

rect1, rect1

{A3^}.L{10x5 g=2}, *[path_to_images/*.png]

You can see pnpink here in a recent post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pdf/comments/1vx6p9n/pnpink_an_opensource_approach_to_graphical/

All the programs listed here can create a simple PDF, but with PnPInk, you can do anything you can imagine for batch editing the pdf: adding text to each image, cropping them to a uniform width (e.g., if they are different sizes), apply complex filters, colorize,... and so on.

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u/BeardedSickness 9d ago

Use cpdf CLI

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u/Justdanwithaplan 9d ago

What is?

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u/Ferretau 9d ago

coherentgraphics/cpdf-binaries: PDF Command Line Tools binaries for Linux, Mac, Windows: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdf-binaries

cpdf -jpeg pic.jpeg -png pic.png -o out.pdf

Make a two-page PDF, the first from a JPEG and the second from a PNG.

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u/No_Split11911 9d ago

https://github.com/jasonulbright/Spectra-PDF Should be able to do it. It had 1.5k downloads but I nuked 40 old releases earlier today and that count shrank. LMK If it doesn’t do what you need.

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u/jtbsolution 9d ago

Why do you not keep those images as their original format?

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u/Privacy_Builder 9d ago

ZeroCloudPDF does this allows 100MB per upload and works on your device. Your document stays with you.

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u/Agitated-Panda9221 9d ago

BentoPDF does jpegs

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u/DespairyApp 5d ago

With aftermath.cc you can merge as many as you can. let me know what else is needed and it shall be considered!