HEIC to PDF Converter
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Turn the HEIC photos your iPhone shot into a PDF that opens on anything — Windows, Android, a printer, a claims portal, an expense system. Drop in one photo and you get a one-page document; drop in twenty and they become a single multi-page PDF in the order you arranged them, one photo per page. Paper size, margin, orientation and image quality are all yours to set before you convert.
How to Convert HEIC to PDF
- Upload Your HEIC Photos: Drag the files onto the page or click "+ Add Files". Pages come out in the order the files are listed, so arrange them before converting.
- Choose Single PDF or Individual PDFs: The "Combine?" control defaults to "Single PDF", which merges every photo into one multi-page document. Switch it to "Individual PDFs" to get a separate file per image.
- Set Paper Size, Margin and Placement: Defaults are A4, Portrait, a Narrow 0.5-inch margin, and "Contained" placement centred on the page. Change "Paper size" to Letter or Legal for US printing, or to "Original" to size each page to the photo itself.
- Convert and Download: Click Convert and save the PDF. No sign-up, no watermark. Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, converted on our servers, and deleted automatically a few hours later.
What Each Control Does
| Control | Default | Alternatives | Effect on the PDF |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combine? | Single PDF | Individual PDFs | One multi-page document, or one file per photo |
| Paper size | A4 | Letter, Legal, Tabloid, Ledger, Executive, A3, ARCH A/B, ISO B4/B5, Screen, Original | Sets the page rectangle the photo is placed on |
| Page layout | Portrait | Landscape | Swaps the page's width and height |
| Margin | Narrow (0.5") | No margin, Moderate (0.75 x 1"), Normal (1"), Large (2 x 1") | White border kept clear around the image |
| Image placement | Contained | Cover | Contained fits the whole photo inside the margins; Cover fills the page and crops the overflow |
| Image alignment | Center | Top, Bottom | Where a Contained photo sits when the page is taller than it needs to be |
| Image Quality (%) | 75 | 1-100 | Compression of the image embedded in each page |
Paper Sizes Available
| Preset | Inches | Millimetres | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| A4 (default) | 8.27 x 11.69 | 210 x 297 | Standard document size outside North America |
| Letter | 8.5 x 11 | 216 x 279 | Standard US and Canadian office paper |
| Legal | 8.5 x 14 | 216 x 356 | US legal filings and long forms |
| A3 | 11.69 x 16.53 | 297 x 420 | Posters, two-up prints, plans |
| Tabloid / Ledger | 11 x 17 / 17 x 11 | 279 x 432 | Large-format proofs, spreads |
| Executive | 7.25 x 10.5 | 184 x 267 | Compact letterhead |
| ARCH A / ARCH B | 9 x 12 / 12 x 18 | 229 x 305 / 305 x 457 | Architectural and engineering sheets |
| ISO B5 / B4 | 6.93 x 9.85 / 9.85 x 13.9 | 176 x 250 / 250 x 353 | Books, European envelopes |
| Screen | 6.5 x 5.18 | 165 x 132 | Landscape page sized for on-screen reading |
| Original | Matches the photo | Matches the photo | Page takes the image's own dimensions — no borders, no letterboxing |
Frequently Asked Questions
Will converting HEIC to PDF reduce my photo quality?
Some recompression is unavoidable. The HEVC-coded HEIC is decoded and re-encoded as a JPEG-compressed image that gets embedded in the page, at the "Image Quality (%)" setting — 75 by default. At that value the loss is hard to see on screen or in a normal print. Raise the slider toward 100 for detail-critical scans or artwork, and lower it if the PDF has to fit an upload cap.
Can I combine several HEIC photos into one PDF?
Yes, and that is the default. Leave "Combine?" on "Single PDF" and every photo you upload becomes a page in one document, in the listed order. Pick "Individual PDFs" for one file per photo. If you need to mix HEIC with JPGs, PNGs or screenshots in the same document, use the general image to PDF merger, which accepts HEIC alongside the other image formats.
What is the difference between Contained and Cover placement?
"Contained" scales the whole photo down until it fits inside the page margins — nothing is cropped, and any leftover space stays white. "Cover" scales the photo up until it fills the page edge to edge, cropping whatever hangs over the sides. Contained is right for documents and receipts where losing an edge would lose information; Cover suits full-bleed photo pages.
Why do my portrait iPhone photos come out the right way up?
Because the orientation flag the iPhone writes into EXIF is applied to the pixels before the image is placed on the page. That is the same step that goes wrong in tools that ignore EXIF and leave portrait shots lying on their side. A tall photo on a Portrait A4 page will still leave white bands at the sides if its aspect ratio is narrower than the page — switch to "Original" paper size if you want no bands at all.
Does the "Image Transparency" option do anything to a HEIC?
Not in practice. A HEIC source is always rendered to a JPEG-compressed page image, and JPEG has no alpha channel, so there is nothing for the setting to preserve — any transparent area ends up white. The control matters for PNG sources, where transparency can be carried into the page. Leave it alone for iPhone photos.
How do I make the PDF smaller before emailing it?
Two levers, in this order: lower "Image Quality (%)" before converting — a drop from 75 to 60 usually cuts a photo-heavy PDF substantially — and choose a smaller paper size so less area is filled. If the finished file still needs to shrink, run it through Compress PDF. Most mail providers cap attachments around 20-25 MB, so a long photo PDF is worth checking before you send it.
Why won't my iPhone photos open on a Windows PC or an Android phone?
Because they are HEIC, and only Apple platforms plus Safari 17 and later read that format without help. Windows needs the HEIF Image Extension plus HEVC support installed; Chrome, Firefox and Edge decode none of it. Wrapping the photos in a PDF sidesteps the codec question entirely, since a PDF viewer is standard on every platform. If you want a plain image instead of a document, convert to HEIC to JPG.
Can I just make the PDF on the iPhone itself?
For a quick one-off, yes: recent iOS versions include a "Create PDF" action in the Files app share sheet, and the Print preview in Photos can be saved as a PDF. What that route does not give you is control — no choice of paper size, margin, placement or image quality, and no reliable way to set page order across a large batch. That is the gap this converter fills.
What happens to my photos after the conversion?
They are uploaded over an encrypted connection, converted on our servers, and deleted automatically a few hours later — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared or made public. The output PDF has no watermark and no page count limit, so a whole holiday's worth of photos can go into one document.