Imageio formats

This page lists all formats currently supported by imageio. Each format can support extra keyword arguments for reading and writing, which can be specified in the call to get_reader(), get_writer(), imread(), imwrite() etc. Further, formats are free to provide additional methods on their Reader and Writer objects. These parameters and extra methods are specified in the documentation for each format.

Single images

• TIFF - TIFF format

• BMP-PIL - Windows Bitmap

• BUFR-PIL - BUFR

• CUR-PIL - Windows Cursor

• DCX-PIL - Intel DCX

• DDS-PIL - DirectDraw Surface

• DIB-PIL - Windows Bitmap

• EPS-PIL - Encapsulated Postscript

• FITS-PIL - FITS

• FLI-PIL - Autodesk FLI/FLC Animation

• FPX-PIL - FlashPix

• FTEX-PIL - Texture File Format (IW2:EOC)

• GBR-PIL - GIMP brush file

• GIF-PIL - Static and animated gif (Pillow)

• GRIB-PIL - GRIB

• HDF5-PIL - HDF5

• ICNS-PIL - Mac OS icns resource

• ICO-PIL - Windows Icon

• IM-PIL - IFUNC Image Memory

• IMT-PIL - IM Tools

• IPTC-PIL - IPTC/NAA

• JPEG-PIL - JPEG (ISO 10918)

• JPEG2000-PIL - JPEG 2000 (ISO 15444)

• MCIDAS-PIL - McIdas area file

• MIC-PIL - Microsoft Image Composer

• MPO-PIL - MPO (CIPA DC-007)

• MSP-PIL - Windows Paint

• PCD-PIL - Kodak PhotoCD

• PCX-PIL - Paintbrush

• PIXAR-PIL - PIXAR raster image

• PNG-PIL - Portable network graphics

• PPM-PIL - Pbmplus image

• PSD-PIL - Adobe Photoshop

• SGI-PIL - SGI Image File Format

• SPIDER-PIL - Spider 2D image

• SUN-PIL - Sun Raster File

• TGA-PIL - Targa

• TIFF-PIL - TIFF format (Pillow)

• WMF-PIL - Windows Metafile

• XBM-PIL - X11 Bitmap

• XPM-PIL - X11 Pixel Map

• XVTHUMB-PIL - XV thumbnail image

• SCREENGRAB - Grab screenshots (Windows and OS X only)

• CLIPBOARDGRAB - Grab from clipboard (Windows only)

• BMP-FI - Windows or OS/2 Bitmap

• CUT-FI - Dr. Halo

• DDS-FI - DirectX Surface

• EXR-FI - ILM OpenEXR

• G3-FI - Raw fax format CCITT G.3

• HDR-FI - High Dynamic Range Image

• IFF-FI - IFF Interleaved Bitmap

• J2K-FI - JPEG-2000 codestream

• JNG-FI - JPEG Network Graphics

• JP2-FI - JPEG-2000 File Format

• JPEG-FI - JPEG - JFIF Compliant

• JPEG-XR-FI - JPEG XR image format

• KOALA-FI - C64 Koala Graphics

• PBM-FI - Portable Bitmap (ASCII)

• PBMRAW-FI - Portable Bitmap (RAW)

• PCD-FI - Kodak PhotoCD

• PCX-FI - Zsoft Paintbrush

• PFM-FI - Portable floatmap

• PGM-FI - Portable Greymap (ASCII)

• PGMRAW-FI - Portable Greymap (RAW)

• PICT-FI - Macintosh PICT

• PNG-FI - Portable Network Graphics

• PPM-FI - Portable Pixelmap (ASCII)

• PPMRAW-FI - Portable Pixelmap (RAW)

• PSD-FI - Adobe Photoshop

• RAS-FI - Sun Raster Image

• RAW-FI - RAW camera image

• SGI-FI - SGI Image Format

• TARGA-FI - Truevision Targa

• TIFF-FI - Tagged Image File Format

• WBMP-FI - Wireless Bitmap

• WEBP-FI - Google WebP image format

• XBM-FI - X11 Bitmap Format

• XPM-FI - X11 Pixmap Format

• ICO-FI - Windows icon

• GIF-FI - Static and animated gif (FreeImage)

• BSDF - Format based on the Binary Structured Data Format

• DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

• NPZ - Numpy’s compressed array format

• FEI - FEI-SEM TIFF format

• FITS - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format

• ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) format

• GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

• LYTRO-LFR - Lytro Illum lfr image file

• LYTRO-ILLUM-RAW - Lytro Illum raw image file

• LYTRO-LFP - Lytro F01 lfp image file

• LYTRO-F01-RAW - Lytro F01 raw image file

• SPE - SPE file format

• DUMMY - An example format that does nothing.

Multiple images

• TIFF - TIFF format

• GIF-PIL - Static and animated gif (Pillow)

• ICO-FI - Windows icon

• GIF-FI - Static and animated gif (FreeImage)

• FFMPEG - Many video formats and cameras (via ffmpeg)

• AVBIN - Many video formats (via AvBin, i.e. libav library)

• BSDF - Format based on the Binary Structured Data Format

• DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

• NPZ - Numpy’s compressed array format

• SWF - Shockwave flash

• FITS - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format

• ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) format

• GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

• SPE - SPE file format

• DUMMY - An example format that does nothing.

Single volumes

• TIFF - TIFF format

• BSDF - Format based on the Binary Structured Data Format

• DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

• NPZ - Numpy’s compressed array format

• FEI - FEI-SEM TIFF format

• FITS - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format

• ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) format

• GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

• SPE - SPE file format

Multiple volumes

• TIFF - TIFF format

• BSDF - Format based on the Binary Structured Data Format

• DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

• NPZ - Numpy’s compressed array format

• FITS - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format

• ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) format

• GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

• SPE - SPE file format