HEIF to Image Converter

This is a command-line tool to convert HEIF images to other image formats such as JPEG, PNG, etc. It uses pillow-heif to read and convert HEIF images. It also supports multiprocessing to speed up the conversion process.

Note This converter supports extraction of images from the heic file.

Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Anant-mishra1729/heif-to-image-converter.git

Install the dependencies

pip install pillow-heif tqdm

Usage

usage: htoi.py [-h] -i IMAGE [-o OUTPUT] [-t TYPE] [-q QUALITY] [-p PROCESSES]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i IMAGE, --image IMAGE
                        Image to convert
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output directory
  -t TYPE, --type TYPE  Type of image: jpg, png etc. (default = jpg)
  -q QUALITY, --quality QUALITY
                        Quality of image (default = 100)
  -p PROCESSES, --processes PROCESSES
                        Number of processes to use (default = 2)

Example

python htoi.py -i Cyprus.heic -o cyprus -t jpg -q 100 -p 3

Multiprocessing

By default, the script by default uses 2 processes to convert the images. You can change the number of processes using the -p option.

License

MIT