How to Convert From HEIC to JPG in Python on WIndows

Question

Im trying to convert HEIC to JPG using python. The only other answers about this topic used pyheif. I am on windows and pyheif doesn't support windows. Any suggestions? I am currently trying to use pillow.

Answer 1

code below convert and save the picture as png format

from PIL import Image
import pillow_heif

    heif_file = pillow_heif.read_heif("HEIC_file.HEIC")
    image = Image.frombytes(
        heif_file.mode,
        heif_file.size,
        heif_file.data,
        "raw",
    
    )

    image.save("./picture_name.png", format("png"))

Answer 2

As of today, I haven't found a way to do this with a Python-only solution. If you need a workaround, you can find any Windows command line utility that will do the conversion for you, and call that as a subprocess from Python.

Here is an example option using PowerShell: https://github.com/DavidAnson/ConvertTo-Jpeg

It's also pretty easy these days to write a .NET-based console app that uses Magick.NET. That's what I ended up doing.

Answer 3

Just was looking at the same topic. I came across this:

https://pypi.org/project/heic-to-jpg/

I haven't had time to look more into this, but thought I'd share this.