heic-to-jpeg-convert

Shell script for bulk-converting HEIC image files to jpeg.

New apple phones use HEIC format for images. JPEG is much wiedly supported than HEIC, so heic-to-jpeg conversion is often needed.

HEIC stands for High Efficiency Image Coding and it also known as HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format). See wiki for more details. . This tool relies on heif-convert tool, which is part of the libheif-examples package on ubuntu 18.04.

Dependency:

• linux
• heif-convert command on PATH. Installation on Ubuntu 18.04: sudo apt install libheif-examples

Quickstart

1. Clone this repo on a linux machine: git clone https://github.com/liszi/heic-to-jpeg-converter.git
2. Install dependencies. If you have Ubuntu 18.04, run sudo apt install libheif-examples
3. In command line, enter target directory, where you want to store the jpeg files.
4. Start conversion: <path-to-git-repo>/heic-to-jpeg-convert.sh <path-to-heic-files>

Example run

If you have hiec files in /home/jimmy/programs/heic-to-jpeg-converters folder, and you cloned the repo to /home/jimmy/programs/heic-to-jpeg-converter folder, and you want to save your images to /home/jimmy/converted_images folder do the next:

1. cd /home/jimmy/converted_images
2. /home/jimmy/programs/heic-to-jpeg-converter /home/jimmy/programs/heic-to-jpeg-converter/*.HEIC

Arguments

Script takes one or multiple heic files as an argument. So you can use wildcards as an argument for converting multiple files at a time.