imread 0.2.3

imread: Image reading library

Simple module with a small number of functions:

imread

Reads an image file

imread_multi

Reads an image file with multiple images. Currently, TIFF and STK (a TIFF sub-based format) support this function.

imsave

Writes an image file

This grew out of frustration at current image loading solutions in Python, in either my packages [mahotas] or packages from others [scikits.image, for example].

The relationship with numpy is very contained and this could be easily repurposed to load images in other frameworks, even other programming languages.

Dependencies

To install on debian/ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev libtiff4-dev libwebp-dev

To install on Mac:

sudo port install libpng tiff webp

Bug Reports

Please report any bugs either on github or by email to [e-mail]

If you are not sure of whether this is the correct behaviour, you can discuss this on the pythonvision mailing list

If at all possible, include a small image as a test case.

History

Version 0.2.3 (2012-06-8)

• Fix imread_multi

Version 0.2.2 (2012-06-5)

• Add formatstr argument to imread

• Open files in binary mode on Windows (patch by Christoph Gohlke)

• Read-only support for LSM files

• Read-only support for XCF files (through xcf2png)

• Fix writing of non-contiguous images (at least PNG was affected)

Version 0.2.1 (2012-02-11)

• Add missing files to distribution

Version 0.2 (2012-03-19)

• Compile on MSVC++ (Patches by Christoph Gohlke)

• Support for WebP

• Support for 1-bit TIFFs

• Better error message

• Support for multi-page TIFF reading

• Experimental read-only support for STK files

Version 0.1 (2012-02-28)

• Support for PNG

• Support for TIFF

• Support for JPEG