heif – Tarik Billa

How to work with HEIC image file types in Python

March 23, 2023 by Tarik

Consider using PIL in conjunction with pillow-heif: pip3 install pillow-heif from PIL import Image from pillow_heif import register_heif_opener register_heif_opener() image = Image.open(‘image.heic’) That said, I’m not aware of any licensing/patent issues that would prevent HEIF support in Pillow (see this or this). libheif is widely adopted and free to use, provided you do not bundle … Read more

Convert HEIF (.heic) to JPEG on a server? [closed]

March 6, 2023 by Tarik

It’s complicated because iOS 11 is actually storing tiles of HEVC encoded images in a HEIF container, but there’s a demo using the nokia lib to extract them all, ffmpeg to decode them and then stitching them into a single jpeg with imagemagick in the heiftest repo linked from corrupted HEIC tile when converting to … Read more