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00 HEIC → PDF

HEIC to PDF

For the form that wants a PDF and your phone gave you a HEIC.

Drop files or a folder here

or choose from your device · paste with ⌘V / Ctrl+V

.heic .heif .hif

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72 points is an inch. 56 is about 2 cm, which is a normal book margin.

HEIC cannot go into a PDF as it is, so the photo is re-encoded as JPEG. 90 is high enough that the step is invisible.

  • No upload The conversion runs in this tab. Your file never travels — not to us, and not to the advertising.
  • No sign-up, no email, no daily cap There is no account system to sign up to.
  • No size limit we invented Only your device's memory — about ~2 GB on a desktop browser, ~400 MB on a phone.
  • Turn your Wi-Fi off and convert anyway The conversion needs nothing but this page. Ads will not load without a connection; your file will still convert. That is the whole claim, and it takes five seconds to check.

Turns an iPhone photo into a PDF, which is what job portals, visa applications, expense systems and council forms tend to insist on. The photo is decoded in this tab — no upload, and no watermark on the way out.

This one is not lossless, and here is why

Every other image-to-PDF conversion on this site copies the picture in untouched, because PDF can store JPEG and PNG data natively.

It cannot store HEIC. There is no HEVC image type in the PDF specification and no viewer that would render one. So the photo has to be decoded and written back out as JPEG, and that second encode is a real, if small, loss.

The quality setting controls it. At 90 the difference is not visible on a photograph; the file is larger than the HEIC was, because JPEG is a less efficient format. Any converter that claims a lossless HEIC to PDF is either wrong or producing something no reader can open.

Two ways to lay out the page

Standard page, scaled to fit puts the photo on A4 or Letter with a margin, matching the page orientation to the picture. Right for anything that will be printed or submitted.

Page exactly the size of the image makes the page the size of the photo, with no margin. Right for a scan or a photo book, where white borders would look like a mistake.

Photos that come out sideways, and why they do not here

A phone stores a portrait photo as a landscape frame plus an instruction to turn it — sometimes as a container property, sometimes as an EXIF tag, often both.

This reads both, works out which one the decoder already obeyed, and applies the other only if it has not. The rotation is baked into the pixels before the image goes into the PDF, because PDF has no orientation flag of its own to carry it.

Several photos, one document

Dropping a folder of photos produces one PDF each, keeping the original names. To get a single document — the usual requirement when a form wants "all supporting documents as one PDF" — run those through Merge PDF, which joins any number of them in the order you arrange.

Why this is the wrong thing to upload

The photographs people convert to PDF are passports, driving licences, payslips, bank statements, medical letters and signed contracts. That is not incidental — it is the entire use case, because those are the documents forms demand as PDFs.

Uploading them to a free converter to have that done is handing a stranger the exact set of documents you would least want them to have. Nothing here is transmitted; turn your Wi-Fi off first if you want to be sure.

Other names for this

Also searched as “heif to pdf”, “iphone photo to pdf”, “convert heic to pdf free”.

Questions

Why is this lossy when JPG to PDF is not?
Because PDF can store JPEG data directly but has no way to store HEIC. The photo must be decoded and re-encoded. At the default quality of 90 the step is invisible, but it is real and we would rather say so.
Will the PDF be bigger than the HEIC?
Yes, usually about twice the size. HEIC compresses roughly twice as efficiently as JPEG, and that advantage is what you give up to get a file the form will accept.
Can I put several photos into one PDF?
Convert them here, then join the results with Merge PDF. There is no file count and no daily limit on either step.
Will my portrait photo come out sideways?
No. The rotation is read from the file and applied to the pixels before the image is placed, because PDF has no orientation flag to pass it along in.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The PDF is built in this tab and handed to you as a download. That matters here more than most places: the documents people convert to PDF are contracts, CVs, medical letters and manuscripts.
Can I convert several files at once?
Yes. Drop as many as you like, or a whole folder. Each becomes its own PDF keeping its original name.