HEIC to PDF
Turn iPhone HEIC photos into PDF documents in your browser. Free and private; photos are never uploaded to any server.
About this tool
Insurance claims, expense reports, and government portals often want documents as PDF, but your iPhone hands you HEIC photos. This tool wraps each HEIC photo into a PDF page right in your browser: no upload, no watermark, no signup.
Each photo becomes a PDF page sized to the photo itself, so nothing is cropped or squeezed onto letter paper. Because the conversion is local, receipts, IDs, and medical documents stay on your device.
Common uses
- Submit photographed receipts or documents to systems that only accept PDF
- Turn photos of a whiteboard or paper form into a shareable document
- Attach iPhone photos to a claim or application with strict PDF requirements
Automate via API
The same conversion is available as a REST endpoint for scripts, pipelines, and backends. POST the file, get the converted file back:
curl -X POST https://formatably.com/api/v1/tools/heic-to-pdf \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \ --data-binary @photo.heic \ -o photo.pdf
Direct requests accept up to 4 MB; the large-file flow handles up to 100 MB. Both are covered in the API documentation · Get an API key
HEIC notes
HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) is the default photo format on iPhones and iPads since iOS 11. It stores photos at roughly half the size of JPEG at the same quality, but support outside the Apple ecosystem is still patchy.
- Windows, older Android devices, and most web upload forms reject HEIC files.
- A .heif extension is the same container; both open the same way here.
- Live Photos convert as their still frame; the motion part is a separate video track.
PDF notes
PDF is the fixed-layout document format for sharing, printing, and archiving. Wrapping images into a PDF makes them paginated and universally viewable; extracting images from a PDF renders its pages back into pictures.
- Each image becomes its own PDF page sized to the image's dimensions.
- Rendering PDF pages to images rasterizes them; text in the output is pixels, not selectable text.
Frequently asked questions
Can I combine multiple photos into one PDF?
Each file converts to its own PDF at the moment. For multi-photo batches you get one PDF per photo, which most portals accept as multiple attachments.
What page size does the PDF use?
Each page is sized to the photo itself rather than forced onto letter or A4 paper, so nothing is cropped, stretched, or surrounded by huge margins. PDF viewers and printers scale it to the paper automatically when you print.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly and the canvas API; your files never leave your device. There are no ads and no trackers on tool pages. You can verify this yourself: open your browser's developer tools, watch the Network tab while converting, and you will see no upload requests. It even works offline once the page has loaded.
Is there a file size limit?
In the browser there is no hard limit; you are bounded only by your device's memory, and files of a few hundred megabytes are usually fine. The REST API accepts files up to 4 MB in a direct request, or up to 100 MB using the large-file upload flow described in the API docs.
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