I need to convert a lot of CR2 photos to either JPG or PNG, no editing. How to do this?
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Ufraw
you can convert .cr2 to .jpeg by ufraw.
sudo apt-get install ufraw
Right click on the file and select open with ufraw.
** You can also import them to Gimp with gimp-ufraw and then export as .png or .jpeg.
sudo apt-get install gimp-ufraw
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Didn't work for my photos shot on Canon 700D. Unable to open file of type CR2. – Greg Aug 11 at 20:54
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I'll go a different route... Use ufraw-batch not ufraw.
sudo apt-get install ufraw-batch
## This will output (not replace) the file with a new extension.
## foo.CR2 exported to foo.png
ufraw-batch --out-type png *.CR2
See ufraw-batch --help and man ufraw-batch for more info.
answered Apr 5 '15 at 21:49
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5In some cases, ufraw-batch leads to a segmentation fault. It will successfully develop one RAW file, and then it stops. See bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ufraw/+bug/1768855 for further information. – user258532 Sep 14 '18 at 12:13
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For another alternative, use mogrify:
mogrify -format png *.cr2
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2it should be stated that mogrify is part of imagemagick, which is available at imagemagick.org. however, mogrify uses ufraw-batch in the background, so might as well use that directly – dominik andreas Apr 22 '18 at 9:29
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2+1 as mogrify circumvents the bug in ufraw-batch that leads to a segmentation fault (asper Sptember 2018) – Bruni Sep 23 '18 at 12:30
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This worked nicely. I just wish there was a verbose option because I didn't realize it was succeeding on a long-running job. – Sridhar Sarnobat Nov 29 at 2:06
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This is now a Famous Question. We do not like these sort of answers. This should be deleted. – fosslinux Aug 2 '16 at 3:15
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1It's not a helpful answer, but the xnconvert tool worked better for me than all of the other options. You have to download and install the .deb file (no PPA as far as I can tell) but the conversion process was fast and accurate, better colour reproduction than either ufraw or dcraw and faster than either batch process. Using it is reasonably easy, point it at a directory of CR2 files and tell it where to drop the JPEGs and click the button. – delatbabel Aug 26 at 6:27
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You could also program a simple loop in the console.
For example (using the fish console), and assuming the active directory only has RAW files.
set files (ls)
for i in $files
dcraw $i
end
or
set files (ls)
for i in $files
ufraw-batch --out-type=tif --out-depth $i
end
I use ufraw-batch that way because it often leads to an error, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ufraw/+bug/1768855 .
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The method that really worked for me:
You need dcraw and ppmtojpeg (install with apt)
for i in *.CR2; do dcraw -c $i | ppmtojpeg > $1.jpg; echo $i done; done
What it does: First convert CR2 to PPM with dcraw passing the output to ppmtojpeg which converts to JPG.
I found this here
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Use:
exiftool -Composite:PreviewImage -b photo.CR2 > photo.jpg
Longer answer:
ufraw-batch conversion quality is very bad. Imagemagick uses ufraw under the hoods (unfortunately). dcraw is better, but still not great. The best solution I found out was to use exif to extract PreviewImage metadata. I believe that's generated by the camera itself.
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Create a bash file like foo.sh and execute as ./foo.sh in command line:
#!/bin/sh
for i in $(ls)
do
ufraw-batch --out-type png $i
echo "conversion done $i"
done
