Turn HEIC photos into a PDF
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Choose HEIC or HEIF photos, put them in order, and build one checked PDF without an upload. Each primary photo is decoded in this browser tab, and decoding starts only after you choose a file. Match each page to its photo or use A4 or US Letter with the margin you choose. Page count, page sizes and image dimensions are verified before download.
How to turn HEIC photos into a PDF
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Choose HEIC photos
Choose .heic or .heif photos, or drop them on the page. Decoding starts only after you choose a file.
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Sort the iPhone photos
Each primary photo gets a row with a preview. Move rows up or down, or remove one, so the pages follow the order you need.
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Fit the photos to paper
Match image keeps each photo's proportions. A4 or US Letter turns to landscape for a landscape photo, with a margin of none, 0.25 inch or 0.5 inch.
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Check it, then save
The finished PDF is reopened. Each page image must keep the decoded photo's pixel width and height before the download is offered.
What goes into the PDF
The primary HEIC image is decoded in memory. Transparent pixels are flattened onto white, then the image is stored as JPEG at quality 92. The verifier reopens the PDF and checks every page size and embedded image dimension before the download appears.
Where HEIC to PDF fits
pdfpix is a free HEIC to PDF converter that asks for no account and sets no daily cap. Decoding runs inside this browser tab, so an iPhone photo becomes a PDF page without the file reaching a server. Nothing is uploaded to convert it, and the decoder starts only once you have chosen a file.
HEIC is what recent iPhones save by default, and it is the format most desktop software still refuses to open. Turning the photo into a PDF page is the reliable way to hand it to somebody else, because every reader on every platform opens a PDF. Only the primary image in each file becomes a page. Live Photos, burst frames and depth maps are not carried across, and transparent pixels are flattened onto white so a page never arrives as a grey block.
Each decoded photo is stored in the PDF as a JPEG at quality 92, which keeps the picture readable at print size without carrying the full uncompressed frame. Phone photos are large all the same, so a PDF built from twenty of them will not be small. Compress PDF reduces the image data afterwards, and Size breakdown names the pages responsible before you compress anything.
To put these pages beside an existing document, use Merge PDF. For a folder holding several image formats, use Images to PDF. If the photos are pages of a document rather than pictures, Scan documents with your phone covers getting a straight, readable page in the first place.
Questions
- Are my HEIC photos uploaded?
- No. The HEIC decoder is loaded into this tab and decodes the photos there.
- What happens to image quality?
- The primary HEIC image is decoded once and stored as JPEG at quality 92. Its decoded pixel width and height are kept, but the original HEIC compression stream is not.
- Does it include Live Photo video?
- No. It converts the primary still image only. Motion, depth maps, bursts and auxiliary images are not added to the PDF.
- What happens to transparent pixels?
- They are flattened onto white before the photo is stored in the PDF.
- Does photo text become selectable?
- No. Text inside a photo is made of pixels. This conversion does not run OCR.
- Why did one photo fail to open?
- The tool refuses a photo larger than 80,000,000 pixels, and a HEIC variant the decoder cannot read. The tool shows why, and the other photos stay in the list.
Related tools
Each runs in a browser tab like this one, reads its own output back before the download, and needs no account. The footer links every tool.
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Where to go next
- Image to PDF Put JPG and PNG images into a single PDF, in the order you choose.
- JPG to PDF Turn photos or scans into one PDF, in page order.
- Scan documents with your phone Turn a phone photo into a document scan that looks like a scan.
- Combine images into one PDF Turn a folder of images into one PDF in the right order.