Library for reading and writing a wide range of image, video, scientific, and volumetric data formats.
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Author: imageio contributors
Requires Python: >=3.9
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- 5 - Production/Stable
Intended Audience
- Science/Research
- Education
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: BSD License
Operating System
- MacOS :: MacOS X
- Microsoft :: Windows
- POSIX
Programming Language
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
- Python :: 3.13
- Python :: 3.14
Imageio is a Python library that provides an easy interface to read and write a wide range of image data, including animated images, volumetric data, and scientific formats. It is cross-platform, runs on Python 3.9+, and is easy to install.
Main website: https://imageio.readthedocs.io/
Release notes: https://github.com/imageio/imageio/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Example:
>>> import imageio
>>> im = imageio.imread('imageio:astronaut.png')
>>> im.shape # im is a numpy array
(512, 512, 3)
>>> imageio.imwrite('astronaut-gray.jpg', im[:, :, 0])
See the API Reference or examples for more information.
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