HeicConvert

HeicConvert is a script which, when installed, will create an icon on your Linux desktop.

Dragging and dropping any jpg or png image on the HeicConvert icon will create a heic format copy of the image in the same location as the original image. For example the file DSC02422.JPG dropped on the icon will result in the creation of another file DSC02422.heic. Exif information of the jpg file will be copied to the generated heic file.

Heic images are at least one-third in size as compared to the jpg format images.

You can even drag and drop a whole folder on the icon, and all the images in it will be converted to heic.

• DOWNLOAD the package Heic-Convert-installer.zip.
• Unzip the package Heic-Convert-installer.zip which will create a folder Heic-Convert-installer.
• Just double-click on the INSTALL file in the Heic-Convert-installer/ folder, and choose the "run" option. Thats it! Check that a new icon has been added to your desktop.
• Drag your images and drop them on the HeicConvert icon
• The script uses the libheif-examples & exiftool packages. If these are not installed, install them using the command

  sudo apt install libheif-examples
  sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl