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HEIC image support #117
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Hi, I've been using this library for a while and it works really great, one thing that came up recently is to give HEIC image support, but when I try to load them, it cannot be done, it shows an error, it would be possible to add support for those images with this library?
Thanks.
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blueimp commentedon Jun 30, 2020
Thanks for your suggestion @batusai513.
I've marked this as a feature request, but it's likely that I will only add this if the HEIC format (HEIF) is natively supported by browsers.
There is the following library that supports converting HEIC images to JPEG/PNG/GIF on the client-side:
https://github.com/alexcorvi/heic2any
Unfortunately the distribution file for
heic2anyis more than a Megabyte in size.See also: blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload#3645
edent commentedon Oct 22, 2020
You may be interested in https://github.com/exif-heic-js/exif-heic-js for reading HEIC EXIF metadata. It is a relatively small library.
blueimp commentedon Oct 24, 2020
Thanks for sharing @edent.
I think it's worth considering if reading HEIC EXIF metadata alone is worth it, but so far I still prefer to see if the format will get broad browser support first.
Aarbel commentedon Jul 26, 2021
@blueimp do you support now heic files loading ? Would be really wonderfull
blueimp commentedon Sep 25, 2021
Not yet supported unfortunately.
robbaman commentedon Nov 5, 2025
Afaik heic in canvas support on browsers is pretty common these days, but it doesn't seem to work with this library. Any chance this could be added (or some pointers to where in the code this should be added)?