Convert HEIC to PDF

An insurer, a landlord, a visa portal — sooner or later something official asks for "a PDF, please" and your iPhone hands you a HEIC the portal will not open. This page decodes the photo in your browser and wraps it in a one-page PDF sized for printing, receipts and ID pages included — which is exactly why your photos are never uploaded to anyone, this site included.

  1. Your photos

    Drop your HEIC photos here

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    Your files are never uploaded.

    Drop a whole folder if you like — they convert one at a time so a large photo cannot run your browser out of memory.

  2. What you want back

  3. Your files

How to convert HEIC to PDF

  1. Drop your photos

    Straight from AirDrop, a cable, or a chat export — .heic and .heif both work, several at once.

  2. Check the format says PDF

    The same tool converts to JPG and PNG; PDF is pre-selected on this page. The line under the picker says what the choice costs before you spend it.

  3. Save each PDF

    Every photo becomes its own one-page PDF, named after the photo. Download them singly or all together.

What you get

A page sized for printing

The photo lands on a page at 300 dpi — a 12-megapixel shot prints at roughly 13 by 10 inches instead of becoming a 55-inch banner, which is what the naive pixel-per-point conversion produces.

The decoder is in the page

HEIC is decoded by libheif compiled to WebAssembly, running in your browser — no model, no server-side decoder. The first photo converts as fast as the fiftieth.

The JPEG inside is stored once

The photo is encoded to JPEG and embedded as-is — a PDF stores JPEG natively, so there is no second compression pass inside the document.

Made for exactly the sensitive case

The photos people convert for offices are IDs, leases and medical letters. They are decoded and wrapped in this page; your photos are never uploaded.

Questions about HEIC and PDF

Do several photos become one PDF?
No — each photo becomes its own one-page PDF, which is what upload portals usually want. To bind many images into a single document, convert them to JPG here first and drop those into the PDF editor on this site, which assembles one file with a page per image.
Does the photo lose quality?
One JPEG encode happens on the way in, at high quality — the same kind of step the JPG converter takes. The PDF wrapper itself adds no further loss; the JPEG bytes are stored exactly once.
Why does my iPhone shoot HEIC at all?
It stores the same photo in roughly half the space of a JPEG, which is why Apple made it the default in 2017. The format is fine; the problem is everyone else's software. Converting a copy for the office is the practical answer.
What about Live Photos and bursts?
The still frame converts. The motion part of a Live Photo lives in a separate video file that a PDF cannot hold anyway.
Is it free, and are my photos uploaded?
Free, no account, no watermark. Decoding and the PDF wrapping both run in your browser — your photos are never uploaded.

Just need a picture format? HEIC to JPG and HEIC to PNG run on the same decoder. New to the format? What HEIC is.