imread is a simple library which reads and saves images from disk to and from numpy arrays. Its goal is to perform this task simply, so that it can become very stable, leaving more complex image processing for other packages.
| Tags | computer vision Image Processing image analysis Programming |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X |
| Operating Systems | any |
| Implementation | Python C++ |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release adds Python 3 support and read support for BMP format images.


Release Notes: This release fixes compilation on Mac OS X and adds support for saving 16-bit TIFFs.


Release Notes: This release fixes an important bug related to non-contiguous images. It adds read-only support to LSM & XCF formats (the latter only if xcf2png is found in the path).


Release Notes: This release adds files missing in the previous release.


Release Notes: New features include support for WebP, 1-bit TIFFs, and read-only support for STK files.