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Welcome to imageio’s documentation!#

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/

Contents:

  • User Guide
    • Getting Started
    • Other Usage
  • Examples
    • Read an image of a cat
    • Read from fancy sources
    • Read all Images in a Folder
    • Grab screenshot or image from the clipboard
    • Grab frames from your webcam
    • Convert a short movie to grayscale
    • Read or iterate frames in a video
    • Re-encode a (large) video
    • Read medical data (DICOM)
    • Volume data
    • Writing videos with FFMPEG and vaapi
    • Writing to Bytes (Encoding)
    • Writing to BytesIO
    • Optimizing a GIF using pygifsicle
    • Reading Images from ZIP archives
    • Reading Multiple Files from a ZIP archive
    • Reading Metadata
  • Supported Formats
    • Formats by Plugin
    • Video Formats
    • All Formats
  • API Reference
    • Core APIs
    • Plugins & Backend Libraries
  • Contributing
    • Small Changes to the Documentation
    • Large Changes to the Documentation
    • Fixing a Bug
    • Adding a new Feature
    • Webdesign
    • DevOps
    • Implementing a new Plugin
    • Adding a missing Format
    • Full Developer Setup

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