v0.1.1

📦 Release: v0.1.1 – Official Initial Release

ImageConvert is a Python library for converting images across a wide variety of formats while preserving essential metadata and file timestamps.

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🚀 Highlights in v0.1.1:

• Supported Formats:

  • JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
  • PNG (.png)
  • BMP (.bmp)
  • TIFF (.tiff, .tif)
  • WebP (.webp)
  • SVG (.svg)
  • RAW (.raw)
  • HEIF/HEIC (.heif, .heic)

• Core Features:

  • 🔄 Image conversion with support for EXIF and timestamp preservation.
  • 🧠 EXIF metadata extraction and re-embedding (including camera data, GPS, etc.)
  • 📂 Batch conversion with directory recursion.
  • 🕒 Preserves file creation, modification, and access times.
  • 🧭 EXIF GPS location parsing with human-readable output.
  • 🔍 Detailed image info retrieval, including format, size, DPI, camera info, and more.

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⚠️ Not Yet Supported:

• Saving to .heif, .heic, .svg, and .raw formats (reading only).
• Advanced metadata editing beyond preservation.

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📘 Example Usage:

from imageconvert import ImageConvert

# Convert a single image
ImageConvert.convert("photo.heic", "photo.png")

# Batch convert an entire folder to .jpg
ImageConvert.batch_convert("images/", "converted/", ".jpg")

# Get metadata info of an image
info = ImageConvert.get_image_info("photo.jpg")
print(info["camera"], info.get("gps"))

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For full documentation and examples, please refer to the README or visit the GitHub repository.