Turn each page into a lossless image with sharp text and clean edges.
PNG is the right choice when the page is mostly text, lines or flat colour. JPEG compression works by discarding detail the eye is unlikely to miss in a photograph, and around the hard edges of letterforms that shows up as a faint grey halo.
PNG stores every pixel exactly, so a converted page of text stays crisp at any zoom. The files are bigger, which is the trade you make for that.
For text documents, diagrams, tables, logos and screenshots. Use JPG for scans and photographs, where PNG gives you a much larger file for no visible gain.
PNG is lossless, so nothing is thrown away. A 288 dpi page can run to several megabytes. Drop the resolution if size matters more than sharpness.
The pages are rendered on white, since PDF pages are opaque. The output has no transparency.
Combine PDFs in any order you like.
Break one PDF into many, or take a range.
Delete the pages you don't need.
Keep only the pages you pick.
Rearrange, rotate and drop pages.
Turn pages the right way up.
Make an oversized PDF fit.
Photos and scans into one PDF.