pco-image 0.3.0

Tool to read and extract meta data from pco images

PCO Image

Small python package that can read PCO images and its metadata, especially its image index and time stamp.

For reading the image, the package pco_tools is used.

It is tested for the pco.pixelfly camera (14 bit camera) but should work for other PCO cameras, too. For 16 bit cameras you may disable 2 bit pixel shift in which case get_timestamp(False) is called.

Example

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from pco_image import PCOImage

pco_img = PCOImage('image.b16')  # not yet loading the image
plt.imshow(pco_img.img)  # only now loading the image

print(f'image index: {pco_img.get_index()}')
>>> image index: 1
print(f'image timestamp: {pco_img.get_timestamp()}')
>>> image timestamp: 2023-01-20 18:21:53.096300
# write to other file:
pco_img.write('out.tiff')

Installation

pip install pco_image