image-compressor

Image-Compressor

A simple Python script to compress images to JPEG format with adjustable quality.

Requirements

• Python 3
• Pillow (PIL) library

Usage

Make sure you have Pillow installed:

pip install pillow

The script then can be run with the following command:

python main.py <input_image(s)/folder(s)> -o <output_folder> -q <quality>

Arguments:

• input: The input image file(s) or folder(s) to compress. You can specify multiple files or folders.
• -o, --output: The output folder for the compressed images. If not specified, the compressed images will be saved in the same folder as the original images with a "compressed_" prefix.
• -q, --quality: The compression quality, ranging from 1 to 95. Lower values result in smaller file sizes with more compression artifacts, while higher values maintain better image quality. The default value is 50.

Example

To compress all PNG and JPEG images in the current directory and save them in a new folder named "compressed_images" with a quality of 80:

python main.py *.png *.jpg -o compressed_images -q 80