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 3.10+, and is easy to install.
Main website: https://imageio.readthedocs.io/
Contents:
- User Guide
- 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
- API Reference
- Contributing