Converseen — The Complete Guide: Convert and Resize Hundreds of Site Photos at Once

Converseen is an open-source batch image processor built on ImageMagick. You pick a folder of images and convert, resize, rotate and compress them all in one go. After a site visit with dozens of phone photos, it is the quickest way to prepare them for an inspection report or for sending.

Converseen

Faster3ck

Convert and resize hundreds of images at once — prepare site photos and figures for reports, including PDF to images.

ArchitectureCivil EngineeringElectrical & ElectronicsMechanical EngineeringCompletely FreeOpen SourceLinuxmacOSWindowsGeneral Productivity

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What you get

• More than 100 formats — including HEIC photos from phones.
• Resize and compress — every image with the same settings.
• Rotate — fix photos taken in portrait or landscape.
• Rename with sequential numbers — photo 01, 02, 03 in report order.
• PDF to images — turn a whole document into one image per page.

A report workflow

Copy the visit photos into a folder, convert from HEIC to JPG, resize to a uniform width and rename with sequential numbers. The result: light images that go into the report in order, and a report file small enough to email. The program runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Related tools

For quick conversion from the right-click menu — File Converter. For batch processing from the command line — ImageMagick. For viewing and sorting images — XnView MP.

File Converter

Adrien Allard

Convert and compress images, video and audio straight from the Windows right-click menu, without opening an app.

ArchitectureCivil EngineeringElectrical & ElectronicsMechanical EngineeringCompletely FreeOpen SourceWindowsGeneral Productivity

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ImageMagick

ImageMagick Studio LLC

A command-line suite for processing and converting images in more than 200 formats — automate resizing, cropping and conversion.

ArchitectureCivil EngineeringElectrical & ElectronicsMechanical EngineeringCompletely FreeLinuxmacOSWindowsGeneral Productivity

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XnView MP

XnSoft

A cross-platform image browser and batch converter supporting more than 500 formats, including RAW and HEIC.

ArchitectureCivil EngineeringElectrical & ElectronicsMechanical EngineeringFree for Eligible Users OnlyLinuxmacOSWindowsGeneral Productivity

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IrfanView

Irfan Skiljan

A fast image viewer with batch convert, resize and rename — for sets of site photos and scanned drawings.

ArchitectureCivil EngineeringElectrical & ElectronicsMechanical EngineeringFree for Eligible Users OnlyWindowsGeneral Productivity

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The bottom line

Converseen turns an hour of image chores into a minute. Open source and free for commercial use too.

Further reading

• File Converter — The Complete Guide: Convert and Compress Images and Video From the Right-Click Menu
• GIMP for Engineers — The Complete Guide: Free Editing of Site Photos and Report Images
• Free Software for Engineering Reports and Theses — What Really Replaces Word, EndNote and Acrobat, and What Does Not