HEIC/HEIF support

[giamma]

Hello,

as an iPhone user I would love Picapport to support pictures in HEIC/HEIF format.

I created a simple plug-in that relies on the imagemagick linux package and the im4j Java library to convert HEIC/HEIF files to JPEG. Here is the source code:

https://github.com/giamma/picapport-heic-plugin

and here is a build

https://github.com/giamma/picapport-heic-plugin/actions/runs/4659413829

I tried installing the plug-in in PicApport and it gets picked up, I see the log repoted below. However this seems to have no effect: the plug-in is never invoked to perform a conversion, and the iPhone app is never uploading HEIC/HEIF images. Plus, if I am trying to upload a HEIC image from the Web Interface, Picapport says tha *.heic is not a picture and the upload is not performed. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

INFO @ 16:32:56.236 PluginManager.extractFile: /opt/picapport/.picapport/plugins/HEICImagePlugin/picapport-heic-plugin-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

INFO @ 16:32:56.248 PluginManager.extractFile: /opt/picapport/.picapport/plugins/HEICImagePlugin/HEICImagePlugin.properties

INFO @ 16:32:56.252 Load plugin /opt/picapport/.picapport/plugins/HEICImagePlugin/picapport-heic-plugin-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

INFO @ 16:32:56.320 Load plugin class: com.github.giamma.picapport.HEICImagePlugin

INFO @ 16:32:56.336 Load plugin properties from /opt/picapport/.picapport/plugins/HEICImagePlugin/picapport-heic-plugin-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.properties: File does not exist.

DEBUG@ 16:32:56.339 com.github.giamma.picapport.HEICImagePlugin: Version: 1.0.0

MSG @ 16:32:56.430 Plugin loaded: PicApport HEIC Plugin 1.0.0 (c) 2023 Gianmaria Romanato .heic image/heic (hideSubstitutes=true) implements IOtherFileFormat:com.github.giamma.picapport.HEICImagePlugin

MSG @ 16:32:56.497 Plugin loaded: PicApport HEIC Plugin 1.0.0 (c) 2023 Gianmaria Romanato .heif image/heif (hideSubstitutes=true) implements IOtherFileFormat:com.github.giamma.picapport.HEICImagePlugin

MSG @ 16:32:56.502 Plugin loaded: PicApport geojson plugin 1.0 (c) 2019 Contecon Software GmbH .geojson application/geo+json (hideSubstitutes=true) implements IOtherFileFormat:de.contecon.picapport.plugins.geojson.GeoJsonPlugin

[E. Schreiner]

Hi,

your plugin seems to be loaded successfully. To invoke it you have to make sure that the crawler runs at least once. (e.g. type startcrawler on picapport server console)

Based on your configuration the crawler should invoke your Plugin for every new .heic or .heif file in your configured path. So for test purposed I recommend to start PicApport

with an empty database.

The PicApport Webgui currently supports only the upload of .jpg and Videofiles(supported by our Video Plugin)

The reason for this is that we support setting of some Metadata with the Webgui.

To Upload other formats, we recommend to use PicApports internal WebDAV Server. See: https://wiki.picapport.de/display/PICE/Configuration+and+use+of+the+WebDAV+server+integrated+in+PicApport

On my iPad I use the iOS App WebDAV Nav+.

regards

Eric

[giamma]

Hi Eric,

Thank you for the advice, I will try your suggestions as soon as possible.

Giamma.

[giamma]

Hello Eric,

I confirm the plug-in indeed works!

It was a wrong expectation on my side that the Picapport App would start pushing HEIC images to the Picapport server after installing the plug-in. This is not happening, but when I use WebDAV and the WebDAV Nav+ app as you recommended to push and sync photos, my custom plug-in is correctly invoked to transform pictures into JPEGs. The menu item to download the original picture also works, so everything is OK :-)

Thanks alot.

Giamma.

[E. Schreiner]

Hi Giamma,

that sounds good. If you think your plugin is stable we can put a link to a download page if you like.

In this case just send me the URL.

best regards

Eric

[giamma]

Hi Eric,

The plug-in has been working flawlessly for me for several days, converting 1000+ images.

The home page is here https://github.com/giamma/picapport-heic-plugin, you can have a look at the sources if you wish.

In case of bugs people can contact me via github and I'll do my best to fix them.

Giamma.