Convert HEIC to PDF

Almost nobody wants a photo as a PDF for its own sake. What happens is that a form demands one.

Visa applications, insurance claims, school admissions, expense systems, tenancy paperwork and bank onboarding all tend to accept PDF and nothing else. Meanwhile the document you need to send is a bank statement or a passport page sitting on your iPhone as a HEIC, which is a format those same systems have never heard of.

This converts one into the other without installing anything, and without handing a photograph of your passport to a website you have never used before.

Each file you drop becomes its own single-page PDF. Three photos give you three PDFs, which is what most forms want, since they usually ask for each document separately.

Merging several photos into one multi-page PDF is a different job and this tool does not do it. If a form asks for a single file containing several pages, you will need a merge tool after this step.

The PDF page matches the dimensions of the image rather than being forced onto A4 or Letter.

Forcing a phone photo onto a portrait page leaves white bars down the sides and shrinks the content, which makes small print harder to read for whoever receives it. Upload systems care about the file being a PDF, not about the paper size, so matching the photo gives the most legible result.

Conversion cannot rescue a bad photograph, so it is worth getting the original right. A few things make the difference between an accepted submission and a rejected one.

Photograph the document flat, in even daylight, with the camera parallel to the page rather than at an angle. Avoid your own shadow falling across it, which is the most common reason a scan comes out unreadable. Fill the frame with the document so the detail is not wasted on your desk.

If the form asks for a scan specifically, the iPhone Files app can produce one directly, and that will usually beat any photograph.

The photos people convert to PDF are rarely holiday snaps. They are passports, bank statements, payslips and medical letters, which is exactly the material you should not be uploading to an unknown converter.

Here the decoder and the PDF writer both run inside your browser. The document is read from your device and the PDF is written there. No server receives it, because no server is involved. Load the page, disconnect from the internet, and it still works.

The only network request is for the decoder itself, around two megabytes, fetched once, because no browser outside Safari can read HEIC unaided.