diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
index 64c3030c7..9e8dbf350 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ class RasterisedDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
             "image/bmp",
             "image/gif",
             "image/webp",
+            "image/heic",
         ]
 
     def has_alpha(self, image) -> bool:
diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/signals.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/signals.py
index 7d6f6902f..e4d8449ed 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/signals.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/signals.py
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@ def tesseract_consumer_declaration(sender, **kwargs):
             "image/gif": ".gif",
             "image/bmp": ".bmp",
             "image/webp": ".webp",
+            "image/heic": ".heic",
         },
     }
diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/tests/samples/simple.heic b/src/paperless_tesseract/tests/samples/simple.heic
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6b9a95e67
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/paperless_tesseract/tests/samples/simple.heic differ
diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/tests/test_parser.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/tests/test_parser.py
index f7490fbbf..514b7163f 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/tests/test_parser.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/tests/test_parser.py
@@ -880,6 +880,12 @@ class TestParserFileTypes(DirectoriesMixin, FileSystemAssertsMixin, TestCase):
         self.assertIsFile(parser.archive_path)
         self.assertIn("this is a test document", parser.get_text().lower())
 
+    def test_heic(self):
+        parser = RasterisedDocumentParser(None)
+        parser.parse(os.path.join(self.SAMPLE_FILES, "simple.heic"), "image/heic")
+        self.assertIsFile(parser.archive_path)
+        self.assertIn("pizza", parser.get_text().lower())
+
     @override_settings(OCR_IMAGE_DPI=200)
     def test_gif(self):
         parser = RasterisedDocumentParser(None)