heic-jpg-exif


Conversion from HEIC to JPG while retaining essential EXIF metadata

Install

``bash
npm install heic-jpg-exif
`

Usage (NodeJS)

`javascript
const convert = require('heic-jpg-exif');
``

Convert an HEIC image file to a JPEG file at maximum quality (1)

`javascript
await convert('input.HEIC', 'output.jpg', 1);
`

Convert an HEIC buffer to a JPEG buffer

`javascript
const inBuffer = fs.readFileSync('input.HEIC');
const outBuffer = await convert(inBuffer);
`

Background

The HEIC image is first converted to a JPG with heic-convert and then complemented with the EXIF metadata of the source image using exifr and piexif-ts`.

See also

* heic-convert
* exifr
* piexif-ts