How to convert HEIC to PDF

How to convert HEIC photos into one PDF

1. Choose the photos. Pick up to 20 HEIC photos of up to 10 MB each. A JPG or PNG, such as a screenshot, can go in the same PDF.
2. Put them in order. The list under the box is the page order. The arrow moves a photo up one place and the cross takes it out. You can add more photos before you convert.
3. Press Convert to PDF. Each photo takes a second or two. The next screen shows the number of pages and the size of the file.
4. Download the PDF. Every photo is one page, turned the way it looks in Photos on your iPhone.

The converter reads no text and uses no account, so it costs you nothing. One connection can run 20 conversions an hour and 60 a day.

What you get in the PDF

Pages

One per photo, in the order of the list

Orientation

Upright, as the photo appears on the iPhone

Page size

A4 on the long side, the short side follows the shape of the photo

Sharpness

About 210 dpi on an A4 page, enough to read small print and to print it

Live Photos and bursts

The main still image of each file

Location and camera data

Left out of the PDF

Kept

The photos are deleted right after converting, the PDF after 1 hour

A photo with more than 50 megapixels is refused, and the message names it. Every current iPhone photo is below that, including 48 megapixel shots.

Why is my iPhone photo a HEIC file?

An iPhone set to High Efficiency saves photos as HEIF, the format behind the .heic extension. It compresses better than JPEG, so the photos take less space on the phone[1]. The catch comes when a website, an office or a school asks for a PDF. A photo in any format is not a PDF, so the photos have to be put into one first.

To take JPEG photos from now on, open Settings, tap Camera, then Formats, and choose Most Compatible[1]. New photos then use JPEG[1]. Photos you copy to a Mac or a PC over a USB cable may also arrive as JPEG, because the iPhone can convert them on the way[1].

Other ways to convert HEIC files

On a Mac, open the photo in Photos or Preview, choose File, then Export, and pick a format such as JPEG or PNG[1]. That gives you a JPEG for each photo, one at a time. The converter on this page makes a single PDF from several photos in one step, in any browser, on Windows, a Mac or a phone.

For one photo you want to read or edit rather than send, a PDF is the wrong target. The photo to Word converter reads the text with OCR and returns a Word file you can change.

Photos of documents: get them readable before you convert

• Lay the page flat in even light, with no shadow from your hand or phone across it.
• Hold the phone straight above the page and fill the frame with it, edges included.
• Take one photo per page, so each page of the PDF is one page of the document.
• Check the photo for blur before you take the next one. A blurred page stays blurred in the PDF.

Translate the document in your photos

A photographed letter, certificate or form is often in a language you don't read. On the result screen, Translate this PDF opens the PDF in the LoreAI app. The app reads it with OCR and returns an editable Word file in one of 105 languages, with tables and headings in their places. Your first document is free, up to 3 pages.

The app also takes a HEIC photo directly, so a single page needs no PDF at all. LoreAI is not a certified translation service. Where an office asks for a certified translation, a translator signs a statement for the Word file.

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