Yara Utility Stack · v1.0 · Desktop · Linux

Yara Imcon

A fast, lightweight terminal image converter written entirely in pure Bash. Batch-convert between PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, and TIFF with per-format quality control, image resizing, and EXIF metadata removal. ImageMagick is the only dependency.

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id::yara-imcon · v1.0 · stable

StackYara Utility Stack

PlatformLinux · Terminal

LanguageBash 4.0+

FormatsPNG JPEG WebP AVIF BMP TIFF

DependencyImageMagick (convert)

Install./install.sh

LicenseMIT

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Version

1.0

Stable release

Formats

PNG · JPEG · WebP · AVIF · BMP · TIFF

Batch

Yes

Entire directory at once

Dependency

ImageMagick

Only external tool needed

features

What Yara Imcon does

Multi-format conversion

Convert between PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, and TIFF in any direction. All formats support both read and write operations.

Batch directory processing

Point Imcon at an entire directory and convert all images in one command. Live progress bar shows file-by-file progress with before/after size metrics.

Image resizing

Resize to a target width or height during conversion. Supports fit mode (maintain aspect ratio) and fill mode (crop to exact dimensions).

Per-format quality control

Set compression quality (0–100) per output format. JPEG and WebP quality defaults are tuned for a good size-to-quality tradeoff out of the box.

EXIF metadata removal

Strip EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata from output files to reduce file size and remove embedded location, camera, and authorship data.

Dry-run preview mode

Run with --dry-run to preview what would be converted without touching any files — shows the full conversion plan before committing.

quick start

How to run

Single file	`bash imcon.sh photo.png webp` — convert photo.png to WebP
Batch directory	`bash imcon.sh ./photos/ jpeg` — convert all images in ./photos/ to JPEG
With resize	`bash imcon.sh photo.png webp --width 1920`
With quality	`bash imcon.sh photo.png webp --quality 85`
Strip EXIF	`bash imcon.sh photo.jpg webp --strip-exif`
Dry run	`bash imcon.sh ./photos/ avif --dry-run`
System install	`./install.sh` — copies to `/usr/local/bin/imcon`
After install	`imcon photo.png avif` from anywhere
Repository	gitlab.com/samanscode/yara-imcon
Required	Bash 4.0+ · ImageMagick (`convert` command)
Developer	Saman Udayanga Wijesinghe
License	MIT