A python script to convert all HEIC photos in a folder to JPG format

heic2jpg.py

from PIL import Image
from pathlib import Path
from pillow_heif import register_heif_opener
from tqdm import tqdm
from argparse import ArgumentParser
register_heif_opener()

def main(params):
    print("Converting HEIC files to JPG")
    files = list(Path(".").glob("*.heic")) + list(Path(".").glob("*.HEIC"))

    if len(files) == 0:
        print("No HEIC files found")
        return

    for f in tqdm(files):
        image = Image.open(str(f))
        image.convert('RGB').save(str(f.with_suffix('.jpg')))
        if params.delete:
            f.unlink()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = ArgumentParser()
    # delete option, default false
    parser.add_argument("-d", "--delete", action="store_true", help="Delete the file after conversion")
    params = parser.parse_args()
    main(params)

requirements.txt

tqdm==4.66.1
Pillow==10.1.0
pillow-heif==0.13.1