Convert HEIC photos to PDF
iPhone cameras shoot in HEIC by default, and half the world cannot open HEIC. A PDF opens everywhere — mail clients, portals, print shops, the office. Drop the photos, and each one becomes a page of a PDF your browser writes, on your device.
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You photograph a document — a receipt, a signature, a page you are not allowed to scan — and the phone saves it as .HEIC, the iPhone's default since the iOS 11 era. Now the recipient's form, the company's e-mail, or the print shop will not take HEIC: the Word doc wants a PDF, the portal lists PDF and JPG and nothing else, and the person you are sending it to is on a Windows machine that opens the file to a blank icon. A converter that only gives you JPG still leaves you doing the second step by hand.
This page does both halves in one pass. The HEIC decodes on your device — the one-time decoder is about 1 MB, cached after first use — and straight from the canvas the PDF writer builds the document: one photo per page, in the order you drop them, or the full batch combined into a single file with a checkbox. No intermediate JPG to manage, no second upload, no waiting on a server that will have its own opinions about your file.
The page does not add paper sizes, margins or selectable text — what it gives you is pixel-perfect pages and a single .pdf file, with the EXIF block (including the GPS coordinates your phone writes into every photo) stripped on the way out. Send it to a stranger; it will arrive as what you photographed.
How it works
Two controls matter: the order you add the photos, and whether the batch becomes one file or many.
Add the HEICs in page order
Drag them onto the page, choose them from the file picker, or paste with Ctrl+V on desktop. If the sequence matters — front of the ID before the back, first signature before the second — add them one by one, because queue order is page order and the queue has no drag handle.
One file or several?
With two or more photos in the queue, the settings panel shows a checkbox labeled Combine all into 1 PDF. Check it and the batch ships as one document, one page per photo; leave it off and each photo gets its own .pdf. The Quality slider (82 by default) and a Max width in pixels are there to keep a phone-photo batch under a size cap.
Generate, read the size, download
Press Generate images. Each card prints the file size before you save anything — for a combined file, one card named livreimage.pdf. The HEIC decoder is the first thing to load on a fresh device; after that every photo on the queue is handled locally.
Why PDF instead of just HEIC to JPG
A JPG is the format half the world can open; a PDF is the format the other half will accept from you. The difference matters in three cases that a JPG does not cover: a multi-photo batch that needs to travel as a single file, a recipient on a system that only lists .pdf as allowed, and a print shop whose intake rule is PDF regardless of how the page was made. If you have one photo and the form lists JPG, the dedicated HEIC to JPG page is the shorter path. If the form lists PDF, or if it is three photos and one file, this is it.
What each page looks like when it opens
A page is built at the pixel dimensions of its source photo — a 4032 × 3024 iPhone shot becomes a 4032 × 3024 page — and orientation follows the image, so a landscape photo gives a landscape page. Nothing is stretched, cropped or padded to fit a paper size; there is no Letter or A4 option, because adding one would mean guessing. When you print, choose Fit to page in the dialog and the viewer scales it correctly to whatever sheet the office actually has.
Two things about the page that are worth knowing before you share it: the page is a flat JPEG of your photo, so there is no selectable or searchable text — no OCR on this site — and the EXIF block comes out with the page, GPS included. For a document going to a stranger, both of those are what you want.
Keeping a phone-photo batch under the e-mail cap
Three or four untouched iPhone shots pushed into one PDF will clear a 5 MB e-mail attachment ceiling with room to spare at the defaults; four or five will not. Two levers do the work: the Quality slider, where 60 is a fine line for paper documents and a noticeable one for skin tones, and Max width, where capping a 4000 px photo at 1600 px throws away three quarters of the pixels and most of the file weight. A page of printed text at 1600 px wide remains comfortably legible on a screen and on paper at normal reading distance.
- Quality 82 + original size — about 2–4 MB per phone photo; fine for an archive, too heavy for a 5 MB batch
- Quality 60 + original size — about 1–2 MB per photo; paper documents hold up better than faces here
- Quality 82 + Max width 1600 — about 250–500 KB per page; the safe default for a batch under an e-mail cap
- Quality 60 + Max width 1600 — about 150–300 KB per page; long batches and 2 MB limits
What this page is not
Several searches for an iPhone-to-document tool end up somewhere else. This page: builds a PDF from images, on your device, with no text layer. It does not:
- Extract or search text — no OCR, so Ctrl+F finds nothing in the output
- Merge two existing PDFs — only images enter the queue, and a .pdf in the drop zone is ignored
- Add margins, page numbers, watermarks or several photos per page — a desktop PDF printer does that
- Rotate or straighten crooked pages — if the photo is tilted, retake it before it becomes page one
Frequently asked questions
Why not just convert the HEICs to JPGs and send those?
One photo, form that lists JPG — yes, that is the shorter path. Three photos and one file, or a form that lists PDF and nothing else, are the cases this page exists for: the JPG step happens once, invisibly, inside the PDF build, and the result is a single .pdf instead of three .jpgs in a folder.
Is the text on the page copyable?
No. The page is a flat JPEG of the photo, so there is no text layer to select or search. If the recipient needs to copy the words, ask them to photograph it back — or keep a typed copy for yourself before you send the PDF.
I photographed my ID back-to-back on the same day. How do I get the order right?
Queue order is page order, and there is no drag-to-reorder. If the back landed ahead of the front, remove the one out of place, add it again so it goes to the end, and press Generate once more.
My Windows machine shows HEIC as a blank icon. Does this page change that?
The HEIC stays HEIC on disk — this page decodes it in the browser to make the PDF, it does not rewrite your file. For the blank-icon problem on the desktop, install the HEIF Extensions from the Microsoft Store; for sending the photo as a PDF, this page is the fast route.
Can I put five receipts in one PDF under a 5 MB e-mail limit?
Set Max width to 1600 and Quality to 60 before you generate; at those settings a receipt page lands around 150–300 KB, so five pages fit with margin. Read the size on the card and nudge the width down if the limit is tighter than you expected.
Does the photo — with the GPS in it — get uploaded to make the PDF?
No. The HEIC decoder (about 1 MB, one time) comes down to your device; after that the decode, the JPEG re-encode of each page and the PDF write all happen in your browser. The GPS coordinates written into the original are dropped on the way out, which is what you want when the recipient is not your bank.