▲ 1 ▼ Convert HEIC to JPG in Go
The “High Efficiency Image File Format” or HEIF is an image format often used by Apple devices. Although called HEIF, the file types are often heic (presumably the ‘c’ stands for container?)
They use a similar encoding method of video formats and are deemed
better quality and lower file size than standard jpeg files.
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It may be worth noting that HEIF supports some features not available in JPEG, such as transparency or 10-bit color support. Therefore, the conversion may be even more lossy than just re-encoding the image data.