PDF to HEIC Converter: Every Page as a 300 dpi HEIC Image
Convert PDF to HEIC for free: upload a PDF, choose all pages or only some, and download one HEIC image per page, packed in a ZIP when there are several. Each page is rendered at 300 dpi, and our 5-page test came back as five HEIC files of about 16 KB each.
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How to Convert a PDF to HEIC Images
Upload a PDF, pick the pages to convert, and download them as HEIC images.
- 01Choose a PDF file to upload.
- 02Choose Convert All Pages or Convert Selected Pages, then click Next.
- 03Click Start Images Extraction.
- 04Download the HEIC image, or a ZIP if you converted several pages.
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What the PDF to HEIC Converter Does
- High-quality outputEach page gets rendered at 300 dpi before it turns into a compact HEIC image.
- Fast conversionUpload, pick the pages, convert and download in a few clicks.
- Easy to useConvert all pages, or pick the ones you need from the page previews.
- Private processingWe convert your file on our own server and delete it automatically within two hours.
- No watermarkWe don't add a watermark to the HEIC images.
- Free online toolConvert PDF pages to HEIC without installing any desktop software.
Converting PDF Pages to HEIC Images: Quality, Size and Compatibility
When you want a PDF page next to your photos on an iPhone, in a message or in a photo library, an image file is easier to handle than a PDF. This converter turns PDF pages into HEIC images, the photo format Apple devices use, one image per page.
Need to go the other way? Our HEIC to PDF converter turns HEIC photos back into a PDF.
Convert Your PDF to HEICHow to convert PDF to HEIC
- Choose a PDF of up to 25 MB, or drag it onto the upload area.
- Pick Convert All Pages or Convert Selected Pages and click Next.
- If you chose selected pages, click the pages you want in the preview.
- Click Start Images Extraction and download the result.
Each page becomes its own file, named Page-1.heic, Page-2.heic and so on. Several pages arrive in one ZIP, while a single page comes back as one .heic file.
To keep the ZIP small, select only the pages you need, or delete the rest from the PDF first with one of our page organizing tools. If the PDF needs a password to open, unlock it first with Unlock PDF.
What a HEIC image is
HEIC is the High Efficiency Image File Format with pictures compressed by the HEVC video codec. HEIF files that contain HEVC-encoded images are known as HEIC files, and Apple made the format the iPhone camera default with iOS 11.
A HEIC image usually takes far less space than a JPEG of similar quality. It's lossy like JPEG, and the file is a picture of the page, so you can't select its text any more.
Quality and file size of the HEIC images
Ghostscript renders each page at 300 dpi in full color, and libheif encodes the result as HEIC. An A4 page turns into an image of about 2480 by 3508 pixels, which is plenty to zoom into small print.
Pages with text and flat colors compress really well. Photo pages give bigger files: our photos.pdf, five A4 pages of real photographs, came to 1.1 to 1.4 MB per HEIC page, 6,662,374 bytes in all, against 25,923,753 bytes as JPG. And a blurry scan stays blurry, since a new format can't add detail.
HEIC encoding is slower: those five photo pages took about 35 seconds on our test server, against under 3 seconds in PDF to JPG.
Filled form fields in the HEIC images
Form entries only show up when the PDF carries a drawn appearance for them. In October 2026 we filled the name field of a test form twice: saved with an appearance, the HEIC showed the name; saved with only the NeedAppearances flag, which asks the viewer to draw the field, the field came out empty.
Ghostscript, which renders the pages, left that field blank, while Poppler and MuPDF drew the name from the same file. Running the form through Flatten PDF (one of our PDF optimization tools) fixed it: the flattened copy converted with the name in place.
PDF to JPG and PDF to PNG use the same Ghostscript, so check filled forms there as well.
Which devices open HEIC files
iPhone and iPad with iOS 11 or later and Macs with macOS High Sierra or later open HEIC, according to Apple's guide to HEIF and HEVC media. Send a HEIC photo by Mail or Messages to a device without support, and Apple may convert it to JPEG on the way.
Windows may need Microsoft's HEIF Image Extension, and plenty of web forms and older programs won't take HEIC at all. If someone can't open the files, send them the pages from PDF to JPG instead.
HEIC, JPG or PNG: which to choose
HEIC makes sense when the images stay on Apple devices and storage matters. Pick PDF to JPG when anyone might open the files, and PDF to PNG for sharp, lossless screenshots of text and diagrams.
Hang on to the PDF itself whenever you need searchable text, working links or form fields. We delete your PDF and the images from our server automatically within two hours.
What happened when we tested PDF to HEIC
We converted test3.pdf, a small 5-page test file of 2.0 KB, with Convert All Pages, the default. The tool returned test3_PDFToHEIC.zip, 65.8 KB, holding Page-1.heic to Page-5.heic.
Each image was 2083 by 2083 pixels (the 500-point square pages at 300 dpi) and about 16 KB, and the page text looked sharp when we opened Page-1.heic on a Mac. Tested in October 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions about converting PDF to HEIC
Can I convert a PDF to HEIC for free?
Yes. There's no charge, no account and no watermark, for PDFs of up to 25 MB.
Can I convert only selected PDF pages?
Yes. Pick Convert Selected Pages and click the pages you want before you start.
Will the HEIC image keep the PDF text and links?
No. Each page becomes a picture, so you can't select the text and links stop working.
Do I get one multi-page HEIC file?
No. You get one HEIC image per page, and several pages come packed in a ZIP file.
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