PDFs and photos,
joined into one
Add your documents, put them in order, get one PDF back. The files are combined on your device — no server ever sees them.
PDFs and photos,
Add the files you want joined
PDFs and photographs together — images become pages. Read from your disk and combined here. Nothing is uploaded.
PDF · JPEG · PNG · HEIC · WEBP · UP TO 40 ITEMS
Nothing added yet
Pages are copied across exactly as they are — same text, same images, same page sizes. Nothing is re-rendered or re-compressed.
Why this one does not upload anything
Merging is the operation people most often perform on documents they should be most careful with: signed contracts, scanned identity documents, medical letters, bank statements assembled for a mortgage application. Every mainstream merge tool asks you to upload all of them at once.
Merging is not concatenation
You cannot join two PDFs by sticking one file onto the end of another. Each document numbers its internal objects from one, so both files contain an object 4 meaning entirely different things. Combining them properly means walking the page tree of each document, copying every object a page depends on — its fonts, its images, its colour spaces — renumbering all of it into a fresh space, and rewriting every internal reference to match. That is why this needs real work rather than a file append.
Nothing is re-rendered
Pages arrive in the merged document byte-identical to how they left the original. Text stays selectable, images keep their original compression, page sizes are preserved individually, so a landscape scan in the middle of a portrait document stays landscape. Tools that rasterise pages to combine them destroy all of that.
Photographs can be pages
A receipt photographed on a phone, a signed page you scanned, an identity document, a delivery note — these arrive as JPEG or HEIC, and they usually need to sit inside a PDF alongside real documents. Add them here with your PDFs and each one becomes a page in the order you chose. Photographs are turned upright automatically using the orientation tag the camera wrote, and their GPS coordinates and camera details are stripped before the picture reaches the document.
Modern PDFs, too
Documents produced since about 2005 often pack their objects into compressed streams, which is why some simple merge scripts fail on files exported from Word or printed from a browser. Those containers are unpacked and read here, so a document from any recent producer works.
Common questions
Can I merge a photograph with a PDF?
Yes. A photograph becomes a page, in whatever position you put it. Useful when a scanned or photographed page has to sit inside a document made of real PDFs.
Can I mix photos and PDFs in the same document?
Yes. Add JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, GIF or BMP images alongside your PDFs and each image becomes a page, in whatever order you arrange them. Photos are rotated upright automatically and their location data is removed on the way in.
Are my PDFs uploaded?
No. They are read from your disk and combined in the browser. No request is made, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.
Is there a page or file limit?
Up to 40 documents at a time, with no page limit beyond your device's memory. Several hundred pages is comfortable on a laptop.
Does merging reduce quality?
No. Page content is copied across unchanged, with no re-rendering and no re-compression.
Can I change the order?
Yes. Reorder or remove any document before merging, using the arrows beside each one.
Does the merged file keep the original metadata?
The merged document is built fresh, so the authors and timestamps of the originals are not carried into it. Page content is untouched.
The other tools
All free, all in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Open
Check a file for hidden data
Privacy score out of 100, a plain-English list of what your file reveals — location, names, tracked changes, hidden sheets — and a verified clean copy. Photos, HEIC, PDFs, Office files and ZIP archives.
Check a file →You are here
OpenMerge PDF
Combine PDFs and images into one document. JPG, PNG and HEIC photographs become pages, reorder them as you like, and nothing is re-rendered or uploaded.
Compress PDF
Reduce PDF file size without blurring the text. Images are re-encoded at a quality you choose; text and vector graphics stay untouched.
Compress a PDF →OpenSplit PDF
Extract any pages or ranges into a new document — type 1,4,7-12. Free, no signup, no watermark.
Split a PDF →OpenJPG to PDF
JPG, PNG and HEIC into a PDF. Photos are turned upright automatically, copied in without re-compression, and can be rotated by hand.
Convert JPG to PDF →OpenPDF to JPG
Recover the photographs embedded in a document at their original quality, exactly as they went in.
Extract images →OpenCompress images
Batch compress JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC. Choose the quality and size, and see before and after on every file.
Compress images →OpenWCAG 2.2 checker
Check a page against WCAG 2.2 — contrast, labels, headings and the new 24-pixel target size rule — with the exact change needed for each failure.
Check a page →