Python bindings to libheif for working with HEIF images and plugin for Pillow.
Features:
- Decoding of
8,10,12bit HEIC and AVIF files. - Encoding of
8,10,12bit HEIC and AVIF files. EXIF,XMP,IPTCread & write support.- Support of multiple images in one file and a
PrimaryImageattribute. - Adding & removing
thumbnails. - Adding HEIF support to Pillow in one line of code as a plugin.
Note: Here is a light version pi-heif of this project without encoding capabilities.
python3 -m pip install -U pip
python3 -m pip install pillow-heiffrom PIL import Image
from pillow_heif import register_heif_opener
register_heif_opener()
im = Image.open("image.heic") # do whatever need with a Pillow image
im = im.rotate(13)
im.save(f"rotated_image.heic", quality=90)import cv2
import pillow_heif
cv_img = cv2.imread("16bit_with_alpha.png", cv2.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)
heif_file = pillow_heif.from_bytes(
mode="BGRA;16",
size=(cv_img.shape[1], cv_img.shape[0]),
data=bytes(cv_img)
)
heif_file.save("RGBA_10bit.heic", quality=-1)import numpy as np
import cv2
import pillow_heif
heif_file = pillow_heif.open_heif("image.heic", convert_hdr_to_8bit=False, bgr_mode=True)
np_array = np.asarray(heif_file)
cv2.imwrite("image.png", np_array)import pillow_heif
if pillow_heif.is_supported("image.heic"):
heif_file = pillow_heif.open_heif("image.heic", convert_hdr_to_8bit=False)
print("image size:", heif_file.size)
print("image mode:", heif_file.mode)
print("image data length:", len(heif_file.data))
print("image data stride:", heif_file.stride)import numpy as np
import pillow_heif
if pillow_heif.is_supported("input.heic"):
heif_file = pillow_heif.open_heif("input.heic")
np_array = np.asarray(heif_file)Working with the AVIF files as the same as with the HEIC files. Just use a separate function to register plugin:
import pillow_heif
pillow_heif.register_avif_opener()| Wheels table | macOS Intel |
macOS Silicon |
Windows 64bit |
musllinux* | manylinux* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPython 3.7 | ✅ | N/A | ✅ | N/A | ✅ |
| CPython 3.8 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| CPython 3.9 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| CPython 3.10 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| CPython 3.11 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| PyPy 3.8 v7.3 | ✅ | N/A | ✅ | N/A | ✅ |
| PyPy 3.9 v7.3 | ✅ | N/A | ✅ | N/A | ✅ |
* i686, x86_64, aarch64 wheels.
ARMv7l, PyPy 32-bit wheels are published only for pi-heif from 0.10.0 version.