Convert HEIC to PDF
iPhone photos regularly need to become documents — insurance claims, expense reports, rental applications, photos of IDs. This decodes the HEIC in your browser and embeds it losslessly in a PDF sized to the photo. I want to be plain about the privacy part: these are exactly the photos that should never be uploaded to a random converter, and here they are not.
Also useful: Convert JPG to PDF
How it works
Drop iPhone photos directly — HEIC decodes in the browser, which is exactly where photos of IDs and claims should stay.
Every photo turns into a lossless single-page PDF sized to the shot; expect files bigger than the HEIC, since nothing gets recompressed.
Download each PDF, or take the whole claim bundle as one zip.
HEIC vs PDF
An iPhone photo and its PDF differ in the one dimension institutions care about: one is a snapshot, the other is a submission. Claims portals and application systems want the latter. Expect a much larger file though — lossless embedding undoes HEIC’s compression; going through HEIC to JPG first keeps it slim.
| HEIC | ||
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossy | Container (embeds images) |
| Transparency | No | No |
| Animation | No | No |
| Support | Apple devices; patchy elsewhere | Universal |
| Best for | iPhone camera storage | Documents, forms, printing |
Frequently asked questions
No — that is the whole reason I built this. The conversion runs in your browser using WebAssembly, so your files never leave your device; there is no server in the loop at all. It also means the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded, and there is no file size limit beyond your device’s memory.
No new loss — the HEIC decodes once, and those exact pixels embed losslessly in the PDF. Nothing is recompressed, resized or watermarked. The document shows precisely what your camera roll shows.
Because the photo embeds losslessly, and HEIC is one of the most compressed formats there is — a 2 MB HEIC can become a 15 MB PDF at 12 megapixels. If the receiving system has a size limit, run HEIC to JPG first, then JPG to PDF: JPEGs embed natively without re-encoding, and the PDF stays close to the JPG’s size.
Yes — drop the whole batch and each photo becomes its own single-page PDF, downloadable individually or as one zip. Combining multiple photos into a single multi-page PDF is not built yet; it is the top request and on my roadmap.
Because their systems file documents, not pictures: intake software indexes PDFs, stamps them, attaches them to case numbers. An HEIC — a format many of those systems cannot even open — falls at the first hurdle. Converting on your device closes that gap without handing personal photos to a third-party server, which matters more for IDs and claims than for anything else you upload.
Only where documents are demanded. Plenty of portals accept jpg directly, and there HEIC to JPG is the lighter, simpler submission. The PDF wrapper pays off for claim bundles, printed forms and anything a case worker will file — just remember each photo becomes its own single-page document for now, so a batch arrives as a zip rather than one bound PDF.
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