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There you go, no ads, free, fast and simple! You can change the name of the pdf to whatever you want just by changing the name in the command.

JPG files, the command would be: convert *.jpg outputfile.pdf PNG files in the current folder to outputfile.pdf convert *.png outputfile.pdfĪbove you see the command to convert your images, in this example I am converting all. The command for this is the same in every distro. If you don’t have the images in the right order with numbers, the pages will be mixed randomly when generating the PDF. has to be called 2.png or 2.jpg and so on…. has to be called 1.png or 1.jpg depending on your filetype. You then have to make sure your images are in the right order. When you have installed the 2 applications, then you are ready to convert your files. Install it on Debian/ubuntu Linux with the following command: apt-get install ghostscript imagemagick Convert the images to PDF Install it on Arch Linux with the following command: pacman -S ghostscript imagemagick NOTE: It is really important that ghostscript is installed first, else imagemagick will not know where it is located doing compilation. If you know the installation command to other Linux distributions please leave a comment so i can add them. for this you need 2 applications called “ghostscript” and “imagemagick”.īelow are the commands needed to install it on Arch Linux and Debian/ubuntu Linux. Installing softwareįirst you have to install the software you need to make the magic happen. I am using Arch Linux on my laptop, but it should be the same on any other Linux system except the installation command for the 2 programs you need might be a little different. only 2 programs that can be installed with your package manager easily! This guide show you a free solution on Linux, that just works, is fast, and does not add any crap to the PDF. There are also a bunch of Windows applications that do this, but they are often complicated or full of ads. There are many solutions for this on the internet, including free sites that just does it for you if you upload your images, but they almost always put some kind of watermark on the pages if you don’t pay them. I think we all have been in the situation before, you have some scanned documents in JPG or PNG format that you need to convert into a PDF file.