Description

A command-line micro utility for converting HEIC images to JPEG written in C.

Usage

Dependencies

• libheif
• libjpeg

dependencies can be installed on Linux with the following commands (Ubuntu / Debian)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libheif-dev

Compiling

Run the following bash script in the project directory to build and compile the project. The CMake script supports Windows as well.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Running

You can run the executable in the following format:

./main image_name.heic new_image_name.jpg

Inspiration

Tbh I’m currently in the middle of the midterms so anything that keeps me from studying can be regarded as an inspiration to write a barely half decent C program. The other inspiration was my hatred towards this very ill supported format for supporting files (HEIC). Every time I want to backup images from my iPhone to my laptop I have to convert all the images stored in HEIC to JPEG and since there aren’t any decent tools to convert HEIC images to JPEG I also decided to make another crappy tool to achieve the same awful results as everyone else.