Convert GIF to PDF
Old GIF scans, charts and diagrams, collected into one PDF on your device.
- Nothing is uploaded
- Works offline after first visit
- Open source
- No watermark · limit is your device’s memory; phones hold less
Put GIF images into a PDF in your browser, one per page. Old scans, diagrams and fax images welcome. It is free, needs no account and adds no watermark, and your files are not uploaded: everything runs in your browser on your device. The size limit is your device’s memory, and phones hold less; give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, and then it works offline.
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Most GIFs people want in a PDF are not memes. They are the still images that older systems produced: pages from a document archive, scanned forms from an intranet, charts exported by legacy reporting software, maps and diagrams from websites built in the 2000s, and fax-to-email images. GIF was the web’s standard for graphics before PNG, so a lot of this material still sits in that format.
Drop the GIFs and each one becomes a page of a single PDF, in the order listed. The first frame of each file is used, since a PDF page cannot animate. Because GIF is limited to 256 colours, diagrams and text come through crisp; photographs saved as GIF were already reduced to that palette when they were made, and the PDF shows them exactly as the GIF did.
The GIF is decoded by your browser and placed on the page as a high-quality JPG at its original pixel size. Transparent areas turn white, which is how a PDF viewer would show them anyway. None of the files leave this tab.
Scanned pages saved as GIF are often small, around 1700 pixels wide for a letter page at 200 dpi. Choose A4 or Letter if the PDF will be printed; each image is scaled to fit inside the margin and centred, so pages of slightly different sizes still line up.
How it works
- Drop one or many GIF files, or tap to pick them. Reorder them with the arrows.
- Choose a page size: fit to each image, A4 or Letter, plus orientation and margin.
- Convert, and the PDF downloads from your browser.
In your browser, not on a server
A JPG is embedded directly into the PDF by pdf-lib, unchanged, unless it needs rotating by its EXIF orientation (as sideways phone photos often do), in which case it is decoded and re-encoded at high quality. A PNG is embedded losslessly. Other formats are decoded by your browser (HEIC via libheif, TIFF via UTIF.js, one page per TIFF page) and embedded as high-quality JPG. Page size, orientation and margins are applied while laying out each page in memory.
Compared with upload-based tools: Uploading a folder of receipts or ID scans to make one PDF is exactly the kind of thing that should not need a server. The PDF is assembled on your device in the time it takes to pick the files.
Verify it yourself. Give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, then turn off Wi-Fi or switch to airplane mode and run the tool again. Or open your browser's developer tools (F12, or Cmd-Option-I on a Mac), pick the Network tab, and watch it while you convert. The panel above does the same count for you.
Questions
What happens to an animated GIF?
Its first frame becomes the page. If you need a specific frame, you would have to export it as a still image first; this page does not pick frames.
Can I combine GIFs with JPG or PNG files?
Yes, on the general images to PDF tool, which accepts mixed formats in one document. This page only lists GIFs in the file picker.
Why do the colours look flat or banded?
That comes from the GIF itself: the format stores at most 256 colours per image, so photos saved as GIF show banding. The PDF reproduces the GIF faithfully; it cannot restore colours that were never stored.
Is the file uploaded anywhere?
No. There is no server in this process. The page is a static file and the work is done by code running inside your browser tab. Give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use; then you can turn off Wi-Fi and it still works.
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