Converted is a shoot-from-the-hip media asset conversion system. It aims to convert video, audio, images, and text into alternate formats without any additional configuration or modification needed. This is a one-size-fits-all approach and may not be appropriate if you desire specific outcomes for your converted file.

Note: This is an early stage and the project description is aspirational. We don't yet support text conversion and many other conversion types. Our goal is for tech-savvy people to clone this repo and have a self-hosted way to convert images for themselves and their friends/colleagues/pets/whatever.

For a web interface of this functionality, see convertSage, converted in Ruby on Rails form.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'converted'

And then execute:

bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

gem install converted

converter = Converted::PNG.new('/root/someuser/converted/test/test_assets/image/test_image.png')

converter.convert_to_jpg('/root/someuser/somefolder/image.jpg')
converter.convert_to_gif('/root/someuser/somefolder/image.gif')
converter.convert_to_webp('/root/someuser/somefolder/image.webp')
converter.convert_to_avif('/root/someuser/somefolder/image.avif')
converter.convert_to_bmp('/root/someuser/somefolder/image.bmp', with_transparency: false)
# preverse transparency, but reduce color range from 32-bit to 24-bit
converter.convert_to_bmp('/root/someuser/somefolder/image.bmp', with_transparency: true)

Note: You can use irb to test from terminal:

# For example, png conversion
irb -Ilib -r converted/png

1. gif to:

• jpg
• png
• webp
• avif
• bmp
• ico
• webm
• avi
• mp4

2. jpg to:

• gif
• png
• webp
• avif
• bmp
• ico

3. mp4 to:

• mp3
• gif
• webm
• avi

4. png to:

• jpg
• gif
• webp
• avif
• bmp
• ico

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/curiousmarkingsco/converted. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Converted project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.