How to convert images to EPUB without uploading them
Every "free" online images-to-EPUB converter you've used uploads your photos to a company server, converts them there, and — in several documented cases — keeps a copy or a live download link for days. For personal photos, scanned pages, and anything you wouldn't post publicly, that's an unnecessary risk. The safer approach is to convert the file where it already is: on your own device.
This tool does exactly that. When you drop images here, your browser:
- Checks each file is really an image — by its magic bytes, not its name — and that the file is complete, so a truncated download is refused with a clear message instead of producing an EPUB with a broken page. An image saved with the wrong extension still converts.
- Reads the photo's EXIF orientation data and stores the output upright, so a portrait phone photo doesn't come back sideways. The rest of the EXIF data, including location, is dropped.
- Builds a real EPUB 3 ebook by hand — mimetype first and uncompressed, a container file, package metadata with your book title and author, a navigation document, a table of contents, and one fixed-layout page per image. JPG, PNG and single-frame GIF bytes go in unchanged; every other format is rasterized to JPEG on the device first.
What makes this converter different
The pages that top the results for this search mostly convert on a server (AnyConv, ConvertFiles and Conholdate all upload your files first, and Conholdate caps free conversions at 20 MB and one file at a time), and the dedicated client-side pages we found handle a single format each — one converts JPEG only, another PNG only. This page is the only dedicated images-to-EPUB page we found that combines a batch of 20 files across all ten image formats with a ZIP download, a choice of one combined EPUB or one EPUB per image, book title and author metadata, per-image captions, multi-page TIFF support, EXIF rotation, and a live network-request counter so you can verify the privacy claim yourself. It runs entirely in your browser — there is no server to upload to.
When is images-to-EPUB the right choice?
Whenever a set of pictures belongs together as a book: scanned pages of a document or comic you want to read on an e-reader, a photo album to send to family as one file, a portfolio to open in Apple Books, or a set of slides to read on a Kobo. An EPUB keeps the images in order, with a title and author your reader shows in its library, where a folder of images would arrive scattered. If the destination wants a document for printing or forms, convert to PDF instead — an EPUB is a book, not a print file.
Honest limitations
No text layer
The EPUB pages hold pictures, not text. The book is not searchable, and you cannot select or copy words from it. Run the images through OCR beforehand if you need searchable text.
No quality recovery — and no loss for JPG/PNG/GIF
JPEG throws away detail when it compresses, and embedding cannot put it back. But nothing is lost either for JPG, PNG and single-frame GIF: the source bytes go into the EPUB unchanged. Rasterized formats are re-encoded once, at the quality you choose.
Fixed layout
Every page is exactly the size of its image (pre-paginated). Kindle, Kobo and Apple Books handle that well; some smaller readers show fixed-layout pages smaller than the screen or ignore the fixed size.
First frame only
Animated GIFs keep their first frame and HEIC sequences keep their first still — an EPUB page is a still image. A multi-page TIFF is the exception: it becomes one page per TIFF page.
Metadata is stripped
Camera metadata (EXIF, including location) is dropped when the image is embedded or rasterized. The orientation tag is read and applied first, so the output is stored upright. Only the book title, author and language you set are kept.
No DRM or password
This tool does not add DRM, a password or encryption to the EPUB. If a store needs a protected file, add protection afterwards in a desktop ebook tool.