HermitFile Pro

Turn photos into a PDF that fits your form's size limit

Portals ask for a PDF under 100 KB, or 200, or 300 — then give you no way to hit it. Set the number here and the converter works backwards to land under it.

or drag and drop them hereor tap anywhere in this box
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC · one page per image · drag a whole folder in
Any size — there is no upload, so there is no limit.

Nothing leaves this device. Open your browser's Network tab and watch — your file never appears.

One page or five hundred. Drop every image in at once, in the order you want them, and the PDF is built on your own device. Free, no sign-up, no page limit, and nothing is uploaded.

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    Top to bottom is the page order. Use the arrows to rearrange.

    Target file size

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    Nothing is uploadedYour browser opens the file and does the work. There is no server to send it to, so there is nothing to leak, log or delete later.
    No account, no sign-upNothing to sign up for, and no cap on file size. Free runs one file at a time, forever. Pro takes a whole batch in one pass.
    No upload, no waitingWork starts the moment you drop the file. A 40 MB photo does not have to travel to a data centre and back.

    Why the size target matters

    Application portals almost always cap the upload. NTA's JEE (Main) bulletin asks for category and PwD certificates as a PDF between 50 KB and 300 KB. USCIS online filing states that files must not be larger than 6 MB. Plenty of state portals stop at 100 KB. Go over and the form rejects the file, often without saying why.

    Most converters have no idea what number you are aiming for. They produce a PDF, and you find out it is 4 MB when the upload fails. Here you set the target first and the converter searches for the largest image quality that still lands underneath it — and if quality alone is not enough, it steps the resolution down rather than crushing the picture into mush.

    Why the file doesn't come back bigger than the photos

    A common bug in image→PDF converters is that they decompress your JPEG and then re-compress the raw pixels with deflate, the algorithm inside ZIP. Deflate is very good at text and very bad at photographs, so an 8 KB photo can come back as a multi-megabyte PDF. This tool embeds the JPEG frame directly, exactly as JPEG, which is what the PDF format is designed for.

    Photos from a phone come out the right way up

    Phone cameras usually store the picture sideways and add an EXIF tag saying which way to turn it. Tools that ignore that tag produce sideways pages — and tools that half-handle it produce squashed ones, because four of the eight rotations swap width and height. This one reads the tag and bakes the rotation in before the page is laid out.

    Nothing leaves your machine

    These are ID scans, certificates and signatures. Every other converter asks you to upload them to a server and trust a retention promise. This page has no server to upload to: the PDF is assembled by about 12 KB of JavaScript running in your own browser. Open the network tab and watch — the page loads its own files and stops. Here is exactly how that is enforced.

    How to turn images into a PDF

    1. Drop in the photos, one page each.
    2. Put them in order and set the KB limit the portal insists on.
    3. Press Build the PDF and download a file that lands under it.

    All 39 HermitFile tools

    Every one of them runs in your browser. Nothing you open is uploaded, and nothing is stored.

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    Image tools

    Make a passport photoFinds the face and frames it to a passport specification, then saves at the exact pixel size and under the KB limit. Check my passport photoCheck a passport or visa photo against the rules the authority actually publishes, before you submit it. Check my document uploadCheck a document against a portal’s published format list and size ceiling, before it is silently rejected. Resize to an exact KBHit a pixel size and a KB limit at the same time, without the picture being shrunk behind your back. Crop & rotateCut an exact rectangle by dragging or by typing the numbers. Rotate, flip, and never enlarge. iPhone HEIC to JPGConvert iPhone photos into a format every upload form accepts. Convert formatWebP, AVIF, PNG, JPG and more. Transparency gets the colour you choose instead of turning black. Compress an imageMake the file smaller while the picture stays exactly the same width and height. Clean a fileSee what a file says about you, then remove it — including text under a redaction box. View & remove EXIFSee the camera, timestamp and GPS coordinates hidden in a photo, then save a clean copy. QR code generator & readerEncodes exactly the link you type, with no redirect through anyone else’s domain. Reads codes from an image too. Read text from a scanPull selectable text out of a scanned PDF or a photo of a page, without the scan leaving your device.

    Video tools

    MOV to MP4Turn an iPhone .mov into an .mp4 by swapping the wrapper, with the video copied across and nothing re-encoded. Trim a videoKeep the part you want. The clip is copied rather than re-encoded, so no quality is lost. Split into partsCut a long recording into pieces short enough to post, without re-encoding any of them. Rotate a videoChange the rotation flag a phone wrote instead of re-encoding the picture. Seconds, not minutes. Remove the soundDrop the audio track and copy every frame across untouched — same quality, same size. Video to MP3Convert a video’s sound to MP3, or lift the original audio out byte for byte with nothing re-encoded. Video to GIFPick a range, a frame rate and a size, and get an animated GIF back with nothing uploaded. Green screen swapSwap a green or blue screen for a solid colour with a live preview, no AI model and no watermark. Silence removerFinds the quiet stretches by listening to the audio and cuts them out, with a timeline showing every cut first. Blur pad to a new ratioFit a video into 9:16, 1:1 or another shape with a blurred background instead of black bars. Compress a videoAim at a Discord, email or WhatsApp limit — or your own — and get an MP4 checked afterwards, not just promised. Noise removerLearns your recording’s own background hiss or hum from a quiet stretch, then subtracts exactly that. Auto-reframeCrops a landscape clip to a new shape and pans the crop to follow the motion, instead of a fixed centre. CaptionsBurns an .srt or .vtt subtitle file into the video as styled, timed on-screen text. Beat syncFinds the beats in the clip's own audio and lands a flash or a zoom-punch on each one. Highlight finderScores a clip by loudness and movement, and ranks the best stretches to cut out, losslessly.

    PDF tools

    Merge PDFsJoin several PDFs into one, in the order you choose, and rotate pages losslessly. Split PDFPull out a page range, or break a document into one file per page. Compress a PDFShrink the pictures inside the file and leave the text selectable. Refuses to hand back a bigger file. PDF to imagesRender each page to a JPG or PNG at the resolution you choose. PDF to textPull the words out of a PDF and copy them or save a .txt file. Says so when a PDF is a scan. Remove a PDF passwordSave a copy that opens with no password, using the password you already know. Rotate PDF pagesTurn some pages or all of them, permanently, with no loss of quality. Remove PDF pagesName the pages you want gone and get everything else back as one document. Redact a PDFSearch every page for a name or a number, remove the text itself, then check the finished file. Images to PDFCombine photos into one PDF that lands under the KB limit the portal demands. Bank statement to CSVEvery transaction out of a statement PDF as a spreadsheet, and it checks its own total against the closing balance.