HEIF to PDF Converter
LocalConvert .heif photos to PDF without uploading them
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HEIF, HEIC • Max 25 MB • Up to 20 files • 100 MB total
Files are processed in your browser and never uploaded
Processing limits
- Decoded images: 12,000 px per side, 40 MP each, 100 MP in total.
- These are memory budgets, not upload limits — a large file is only ever read by your own browser.
12,000 px/side · 40 MP each · 100 MP total
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How do I convert a .heif photo to PDF?
Add your .heif files, choose a page size, margin and quality, then convert and download. Each photo is decoded in this tab, re-encoded as JPEG, and placed on its own page — as one combined PDF or as separate files, in the order you arrange them. No codec pack, no camera software and no account is needed, and the photos are never uploaded.
About the HEIF to PDF Converter
Convert .heif photos into PDF pages in your browser. HEIF is the ISO container — High Efficiency Image File Format — that Samsung, Canon and Nokia cameras and several Android exports write; HEIC is the same container carrying HEVC-coded images, which is why Apple’s files use that extension and why one decoder reads both. Add one photo or a batch, set the page size, margin and JPEG quality, and get one multi-page PDF or a separate PDF per photo. Each photo is decoded here and re-encoded as JPEG before it is placed on the page, because a PDF cannot embed HEIF image data directly. A file holding several images — a burst, a sequence, or a Live Photo’s companion frames — converts its primary image only; the other frames and any depth or auxiliary map are not carried into the PDF. Nothing is uploaded: the photos are read and the PDF written inside this tab.
- Convert photos off a Samsung, Canon or Nokia camera that saved them as .heif, on a machine with no codec pack installed.
- Turn an Android photo export into a PDF a web form or a document system will accept, since many still reject HEIF outright.
- Combine several .heif shots into one ordered multi-page PDF for a claim, an inspection report or an expenses file.
- Check what a .heif file actually contains by converting one page of it, without installing a paid viewer or handing personal photos to an upload site.
How to use the HEIF to PDF tool
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Upload HEIF, HEIC files
Select HEIF, HEIC files from your device or drag files into the upload area.
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Choose settings
Choose settings such as Page Size, Orientation, Quality before processing.
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Convert to PDF
Run the HEIF to PDF tool to create the PDF output.
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Download the result
Download the finished file. The original file stays on your device and is not uploaded.
What is the difference between HEIF and HEIC?
HEIF is the container; HEIC is one way of filling it. High Efficiency Image File Format is the ISO standard that defines how images, thumbnails, metadata and auxiliary tracks are packed into a file. A .heic file is that container holding images coded with HEVC, which is what Apple devices write, and .avif is the same container holding images coded with AV1. Files that arrive with a plain .heif extension usually come from Samsung, Canon and Nokia cameras and from some Android exports. This page and the HEIC converter run the same decoder because there is one container to read either way; they are separate pages because the file you have is named one thing or the other, and searching for the wrong one should not be your problem.
What happens to a HEIF file holding more than one image?
Only the primary image becomes a PDF page. The container is genuinely multi-image — it can hold a burst, an image sequence, a thumbnail set, the extra frames behind a Live Photo, and auxiliary tracks such as a depth or alpha map — and the decoder here returns the file’s primary image, which is the one a photo viewer shows. The remaining frames and the auxiliary maps are not carried into the PDF. If you need every frame of a sequence, export them as separate files from the app that produced them and convert those.
Why is the photo re-encoded rather than embedded as it is?
Because PDF has no HEIF image filter. The format’s image types are things like DCTDecode for JPEG and FlateDecode for lossless raster data; there is no entry for HEVC- or AV1-coded pictures, so no reader would know what to do with the bytes. Each photo is therefore decoded and written as JPEG before it goes on the page, and the quality slider controls that one pass. Keep it high for anything you intend to print; lower it when you are batching many photos and the file size matters more than fine detail.
Will Windows or a web form accept the PDF when it rejected the HEIF?
That is usually the reason people are here. HEIF support outside the device that wrote the file is still patchy: Windows needs codec extensions from the Microsoft Store before Photos will open one, plenty of upload forms reject the extension outright, and older document systems have never heard of it. A PDF opens in every browser, every phone and every document system, which is why converting is the shortest route to a file the other side can actually read.
Are my files uploaded when converting HEIF to PDF?
No. The .heif files are decoded by JavaScript running in this tab and assembled into a PDF there, with no upload step at any point. Two consequences worth knowing: the conversion still works with the page loaded and your connection switched off, and because each photo is redrawn onto a canvas before being embedded, EXIF fields such as the camera model, the timestamp and the GPS coordinates do not survive into the PDF.
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