heic-jpg-exif

heic-jpg-exif

Conversion from HEIC to JPG while retaining essential EXIF metadata

Install

npm install heic-jpg-exif

Usage (NodeJS)

const convert = require('heic-jpg-exif')

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

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

Convert an HEIC buffer to a JPEG buffer

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