Perl ImageMagick convert Images from one format to another

Introduction
A Picture speaks louder than a thousand words. Most of the programming problems I usually worked with and involved in where dealing with just TEXT. So now I wanted to programatically work with images. I needed to warp, rotate, scale, stretch, convert from jpeg to png, png to jpeg, jpeg to bmp, bmp to jpeg etc. So I decided to search on how to do such a thing easily. Well the first obvious answer is to do handle all these in C reading files uncompressing based on the extensions, compressing, write the encoders and do whole lot of "Reinventing the wheel" stuff. So I found this software called ImageMagick which already wrote the codes to do all these for you, and what more? It has a neat Perl API so that you can do the fun stuff that you do on perl on images. Now that's sweet.

Hello World
Now just check out this simple script to convert files from one format to another.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#usage: perl im.pl <Source File> <Destination File>
#

use strict;
use Image::Magick;

my $q = Image::Magick->new;

my $source = $ARGV[0];
my $dest = $ARGV[1];

$q->Read($source);
$q->Write(filename=>$dest);

exit;

That is all that is required to convert file from one format to another using ImageMagick and the Perl Image Magick API. For example

perl im.pl IMG_0021.JPG IMG_0021.BMP

would convert the JPG to BMP for you.