CECO PDF

HEIC to PDF, straight from the phone

No need to change them to JPG first

An iPhone saves its photos as HEIC unless it is set to do otherwise, and many computers, printers and upload forms cannot open them. Drop the HEIC photos on the convert page as they came off the phone, put them in order and convert, and each becomes an upright page of one PDF, on A4 or US Letter paper or on a page the size of its photo.

Convert HEIC to PDF now — it opens the tool, with nothing to install.

Saved again, and the PDF says so

A PDF has no way to carry a HEIC picture as it is: HEIC compresses a photo in a way PDF does not have. So each photo is decoded and saved again, as a JPEG, which a PDF can hold. That changes its bytes, unlike a JPG, whose picture data goes into the PDF untouched, and the record in the PDF says that each HEIC photo was saved again rather than kept. If a photo's own picture data matters to you, a phone set to save JPG keeps it: that goes in exactly as the phone wrote it. Either way, what the phone noted beside a photo, such as where it was taken, is left out of the PDF.

Many photos at once

A day's photos of receipts, pages or notes can go in together, in the order you set, and come out as one PDF that those computers and forms will take. HEIC and JPG photos can be mixed in the same PDF, each kept or saved again according to its kind, and the record says which was which.

What it turns away

The limit for a single photo is 67.1 million pixels. One beyond it is declined before it is decoded, with its size in the message, since decoding it would take more memory than a conversion has.

Photos of identity documents — passports, identity cards and driving licences — are refused. Every PDF made here is looked at the way an upload is, and one taken for an identity document is deleted, with everything made from it, as the terms say.

How much at once

One conversion takes up to 50 files, 32 MB of them in all, and each file up to the size your plan uploads. For more files, convert them in batches and join the PDFs with Merge PDF. The PDF it makes holds no more pages than your plan allows in one document.

The record

The PDF says how it was made, in the record it carries and in your account's trail. For each file it names the kind, the fingerprint, and that it was saved again rather than kept, and whether it was turned upright. The files you send are kept only until the conversion has answered; the PDF is kept with your documents like any other, and deleted after 90 days, or whenever you erase it. What a download costs is on the pricing page.

Other files into PDF

Every kind of file the converter takes, and what the PDF keeps of each, is on Convert to PDF.

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