Sinapsis Data Writers

Package to write data of all formats, from the DataContainer in a specified location

🐍 Installation • 🚀 Features • 📚 Usage example • 📙 Documentation • 🔍 License

🐍 Installation

Install using your package manager of choice. We encourage the use of uv

Example with uv:

  uv pip install sinapsis-data-writers --extra-index-url https://pypi.sinapsis.tech

or with raw pip:

  pip install sinapsis-data-writers --extra-index-url https://pypi.sinapsis.tech

[!IMPORTANT] Templates in each package may require extra dependencies. For development, we recommend installing the package with all the optional dependencies:

with uv:

  uv pip install sinapsis-data-writers[all] --extra-index-url https://pypi.sinapsis.tech

or with raw pip:

  pip install sinapsis-data-writers[all] --extra-index-url https://pypi.sinapsis.tech

[!NOTE] Some templates also need system dependencies (e.g., ffmpeg). The installation depends on your OS. For Linux:

apt-get install -y ffmpeg

🚀 Features

• Sinapsis Data Writers
  Write data to many kinds of files.
  • Annotation Writers
    Save text annotations to JSON, geometries to polygons, etc.
  • Audio Writers
    Save to audio files using Soundfile, among others.
  • Image Writers Save to image files using CV2, among others.
  • Video Writers
    Save to video files using CV2 or FFMPEG, among others.
• Sinapsis Generic Data Tools
  Wide range of miscellaneous tools to manipulate your data.

[!TIP] Use CLI command sinapsis info --all-template-names to show a list with all the available Template names installed with Sinapsis Data Tools.

[!TIP] Use CLI command sinapsis info --example-template-config TEMPLATE_NAME to produce an example Agent config for the Template specified in TEMPLATE_NAME.

For example, for ImageSaver use sinapsis info --example-template-config ImageSaver to produce the following example config:

agent:
  name: my_test_agent
  description: agent to save image locally
templates:
- template_name: InputTemplate
  class_name: InputTemplate
  attributes: {}
- template_name: ImageSaver
  class_name: ImageSaver
  template_input: InputTemplate
  attributes:
    save_dir: /path/to/save/dir
    extension: jpg
    root_dir: '/path/to/sinapsis/cache'
    save_full_image: true
    save_bbox_crops: false
    save_mask_crops: false
    min_bbox_dim: 5

📚 Usage example

agent:
  name: my_test_agent
  description: agent to save image locally
templates:
- template_name: InputTemplate
  class_name: InputTemplate
  attributes: {}
- template_name: FolderImageDatasetCV2
  class_name: FolderImageDatasetCV2
  attributes:
    data_dir: /path/to/image
    pattern: '**/*'
    batch_size: 1
    load_on_init: true
    label_path_index: 0
    is_ground_truth: false

- template_name: ImageSaver
  class_name: ImageSaver
  template_input: FolderImageDatasetCV2
  attributes:
    save_dir: /path/to/save/dir
    extension: jpg
    root_dir: '/path/to/sinapsis/cache'
    save_full_image: true
    save_bbox_crops: false
    save_mask_crops: false
    min_bbox_dim: 5

sinapsis run name_of_the_config.yml

NOTE: Make sure to update the data_dir attribute in the FolderImageDatasetCV2, and the save_dir and root_dir attributes in the ImageSaver templates to actual directories

📙 Documentation

Documentation for this and other sinapsis packages is available on the sinapsis website

Tutorials for different projects within sinapsis are available at sinapsis tutorials page

🔍 License

This project is licensed under the AGPLv3 license, which encourages open collaboration and sharing. For more details, please refer to the LICENSE file.

For commercial use, please refer to our official Sinapsis website for information on obtaining a commercial license.