Free heic to jpg converter software download for Windows 11 user?

If you are are familiar with command line, then there are great command line heic to jpg converter software you can use on Windows 11 or Windows 10. And if the HEIC is a simple photo (no transparency), you can use Windows' built-in OCR engine (weirdly, it can extract images).

Windows.Media.Ocr is a built-in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine in Windows 10/11 that allows developers to extract text from images programmatically. It is part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) API and is primarily used in apps to recognize text in photos, screenshots, or scanned documents. You can use this script for heic to jpg conversion on Windows 11/10.

$heicPath = "C:\Path\To\Image.heic"
$jpgPath = "C:\Path\To\Output.jpg"

# Load the HEIC file using Windows.Media.Ocr (indirectly)
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Media
$bitmap = New-Object Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage
$bitmap.BeginInit()
$bitmap.UriSource = New-Object Uri($heicPath)
$bitmap.EndInit()

# Save as JPG
$encoder = [Windows.Media.Imaging.JpegBitmapEncoder]::new()
$encoder.Frames.Add([Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapFrame]::Create($bitmap))
$stream = [System.IO.File]::OpenWrite($jpgPath)
$encoder.Save($stream)
$stream.Close()

Write-Output "Converted $heicPath to $jpgPath"