smc.freeimage 0.1

Features of FreeImage

FreeImage wraps mature and widely-used libraries like LibJPEG, LibOpenJPEG, LibPNG, LibRaw, LibTIFF4, OpenEXR and zlib in a consistent and powerful set of APIs.

http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/

• Reading of 35 file formats and writing of more than 19 file formats as of FreeImage 3.15.3, including JPEG 2000, multiple subformats of TIFF with G3/G4 fax compression and JPEG subsampling.

• pixel depths from 1-32 bpp standard images up to formats like RGBAF and 2x64complex.

• multi page images

• Metadata (e.g. EXIF, IPTC/NAA, GeoTIFF, XMP) and ICC

• Color adjustment, conversion and channel processing

• Image resizing and rotation

• High Dynamic Range (HDR) image processing and tone mapping

• RAW camera files

Contrary to PIL it doesn’t contain advanced image filters or drawing functions. FreeImage focuses on file formats

Features of LCMS2

LCMS2 is a color management engine that implements V2 and V4 ICC profiles up to V4.3. It supports transformation, proofing and introspection of profiles for a large variety of color formats and targets.

http://www.littlecms.com/

Features of smc.freeimage

smc.freeimage is developed as part of the closed source Visual Library framework.

• mostly written with Cython with some lines of handwritten C Code and some Python helpers.

• fast. It avoids copying large amounts of data and releases the GIL whenever possible.

• 64bit safe, tested on i386/X86 and AMD64/X86_64 systems

• thread safe

• Wraps a large subset of FreeImage features

Authors

Christian Heimes Dirk Rothe

Copyright

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