heiya 0.1.1

Convert image to High Efficiency Image (HEIC/AVIF) and back with ease.

Heiya

A one-line solution for photographers to simply convert JPEG into HEIC/AVIF and preserve all the metadata.

Introduction

Heiya allows you to easily translate between JPG/TIFF and HEIC/AVIF, without losing image metadata such as geotag and lens information. All the common operations can be done using one line of code.

It is developed for photographers with a storage budget (like myself, lol) to build an automatic and efficient image storage pipeline.

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JPEG was invented six years before my existence. And yet, the majority of cameras in the current age still shoot JPEG.

HEIC and AVIF are what are called "High-Efficiency Images" (You can read about them here: AVIF vs HEIC).

• These are the future of media formats, JPEG is getting deprecated.
• They can result in a file size of as much as 100x less than traditional JPEGs.
• Devices and operating systems now have good support for both formats.
• However, there are no free and easy-to-use tools out there to simply encode all the JPEGs my camera took into AVIFs while preserving metadata.

Install Heiya from PyPI

• Heiya is developed on macOS and hasn't been tested on Windows or other OS such as Linux.

pip install heiya
pip install heiya --upgrade

Examples

A complete set of heiya examples can be found in the Heiya Demo Notebook.

Change log

NOTE: Not production ready yet.

[0.1.1] - 2022-10-02

• Wrote a more intuitive READEME.md, and updated haiya_demo.ipynb on Github.

[0.1.0] - 2022-10-02

• Attempting to fix an issue of incorrect param call from heiya.he_jpg.convert_jpg_to_he_jpg.

[0.0.9] - 2022-10-02

• Unsuccessful fix for an issue of incorrect param call from heiya.he_jpg.convert_jpg_to_he_jpg.

[0.0.8] - 2022-10-02

• Standarized function names for from_hei and to_hei.

[0.0.7] - 2022-10-02

• Fixed an issue of internal packages not being able to properly import.

[0.0.6] - 2022-10-02

• Added extensions and tools to __init__.py to fix referencing issue.

[0.0.5] - 2022-10-02

• Removed the requirement for glob.

[0.0.4] - 2022-10-02

• Removed the requirement for os.

[0.0.3] - 2022-10-02

• Code cleanup.

[0.0.2] - 2022-10-02

• Initial upload.

[0.0.1] - 2022-10-01

• Created the project.