How to work with HEIC image file types in Python

Question

The High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) format is the default when airdropping an image from an iPhone to a OSX device. I want to edit and modify these .HEIC files with Python.

Answer 1

Simple solution after going over multiple responses from people.
Please install whatimage, pyheif and PIL libraries before running this code.

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[NOTE] : I used this command for install.

python3 -m pip install Pillow

Also using linux was lot easier to install all these libraries. I recommend WSL for windows.

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• code

import whatimage
import pyheif
from PIL import Image
import os

def decodeImage(bytesIo, index):
    with open(bytesIo, 'rb') as f:
    data = f.read()
    fmt = whatimage.identify_image(data)
    if fmt in ['heic', 'avif']:
    i = pyheif.read_heif(data)
    pi = Image.frombytes(mode=i.mode, size=i.size, data=i.data)
    pi.save("new" + str(index) + ".jpg", format="jpeg")

# For my use I had my python file inside the same folder as the heic files
source = "./"

for index,file in enumerate(os.listdir(source)):
    decodeImage(file, index)