1Upload every file you want combined — at least two of them.
2Drag the uploaded items into the order you want; the order is taken from the list, not from the filenames.
3Start the merge, which joins matching inputs without re-encoding them and reconciles mismatched ones exactly once.
4Download the single combined PDF file.
Merge PDF FAQ
Does it matter if the inputs are different formats?
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It does. PDF fixes the page: fonts, vectors, raster images and text coordinates are frozen so every reader sees identical layout. Matching inputs take a fast, lossless path; mismatched ones have to be reconciled to a common format, which is slower and costs one encode.
Anything specific to PDF when merging?
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Yes — a PDF is an object graph, not a page image, so text stays selectable and vectors stay sharp no matter what happens to the raster content inside it. That is worth checking when the inputs did not all come from the same source.
How does Merge PDF join the files together?
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Concretely, the page trees are appended into one document, so text stays selectable, bookmarks are merged into a single outline and nothing is rasterised anywhere in the process. Upload everything you want combined and the result comes back as a single file.
Can I control the order things are joined in?
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Yes — drag the uploaded items into the order you want before starting. Order is taken from the list, not from the filenames, so "IMG_2.jpg" sorting after "IMG_10.jpg" is not a problem you have to solve first.
Do bookmarks, links and form fields survive?
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Outlines, internal links and annotations are preserved wherever the operation allows it. Digital signatures are the exception: any change to the file necessarily invalidates a signature, because that is precisely what a signature is for.
What can I upload to Merge PDF?
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Any standard PDF, including ones produced by a scanner, by a word processor or by a print driver. Files with an owner password that only restricts editing are handled; files that need a user password to open are not, and we do not attempt to break encryption.
Is there a file size limit on Merge PDF?
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Yes: free accounts process documents up to 25 MB each, which covers most reports and contracts but not a long scanned document at 600 DPI; Ghostscript and qpdf do the work. Scanned PDFs are the usual thing that exceeds it, and compressing the document first is normally enough to bring it back under.
Will Merge PDF lower the quality of my PDF documents?
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Text and vector artwork are objects rather than pixels, so they stay perfectly sharp at any zoom no matter what happens. Only the embedded raster images can degrade, and only if the operation you chose resamples them.
Why would a modern-format site run Merge PDF?
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WEBP.to is built around the modern replacement for both of the old defaults: one format that does lossy, lossless, alpha and animation, and reliably lands smaller than the JPEG or PNG it came from. People arrive here having decided the old defaults are costing them bandwidth, and that decision immediately raises the rest: what size, what quality, what happens to the transparency. Merge PDF is on the same upload and the same account so those questions get answered in one place.
Once Merge PDF has run, what is worth doing next?
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The converter on this site moves images to and from WebP, PNG, JPG and AVIF, which is where you decide whether a smaller file is worth losing the older browsers. Doing it in that order matters: pick the pixels first and the container afterwards, because the container is the cheap decision and the pixels are the expensive one.
Do the sibling sites run something different?
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The engines are identical — same libraries, same workers, same caps. What is different is the opinion attached, and the opinion here rests on a property of the format this site is named after: the same .webp extension can hold a lossy VP8 frame, a lossless one, or an animation, so the sensible processing path is decided per file rather than per extension.
What happens to my file, and is an account required?
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No account, and nothing is retained: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, and nothing is inspected, listed or indexed. Accounts exist for history and batch size only.
