API Reference

ImageIO’s API follows the usual idea of choosing sensible defaults for the average use, but giving you fine grained control

Core API (Basic Usage)

The API documented in this section is shared by all plugins

• Core API v2.9

Plugins & Backend Libraries (Advanced Usage)

Sometimes, you need to do more than just “load an image, done”. Sometimes you need to use a very specific feature of a very specific backend. ImageIOs allows you to do so by allowing its plugins to extend the core API. Typically this is done in the form of additional keyword arguments (kwarg). Below you can find a list of available plugins and which arguments they support.

imageio.plugins.bsdf	Read/Write BSDF files.
imageio.plugins.dicom	Read DICOM files.
imageio.plugins.feisem	Read TIFF from FEI SEM microscopes.
imageio.plugins.ffmpeg	Read/Write video using FFMPEG
imageio.plugins.fits	Read FITS files.
imageio.plugins.freeimage	Read/Write images using FreeImage.
imageio.plugins.gdal	Read GDAL files.
imageio.plugins.lytro	Read LFR files (Lytro Illum).
imageio.plugins.npz	Read/Write NPZ files.
imageio.plugins.pillow	Read/Write images using Pillow/PIL.
imageio.plugins.pillow_legacy	Read/Write images using pillow/PIL (legacy).
imageio.plugins.simpleitk	Read/Write images using SimpleITK.
imageio.plugins.spe	Read SPE files.
imageio.plugins.swf	Read/Write SWF files.
imageio.plugins.tifffile	Read/Write TIFF files.

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