libopenraw is an ongoing project to provide a free software implementation for camera RAW files decoding. One of the main reason is that dcraw is not suited for easy integration into applications, and there is a need for an easy to use API to build free software digital image processing application.
It also has the goal to address missing feature from dcraw like meta-data decoding and easy thumbnail extraction.
Documentation
You can view the latest release API documentation.
Status
Alpha release: Read about the road to libopenraw 0.4.0.
Download the latest alpha release 0.4.0.alpha.4 tar.bz2 GPG sig - tar.xz GPG sig - 1 June 2024
Please note the API is unstable and subject to change. Do not use in released packages.
Current stable 0.3.x series
0.2.x series
0.1.x series
0.0.x series
- version 0.0.9 tar.bz2 GPG sig - 13 Nov 2011
- version 0.0.8 tar.gz GPG sig - 15 May 2009
- version 0.0.7 tar.gz GPG sig - 28 Apr 2009
- version 0.0.6 tar.gz GPG sig - 21 Feb 2009
- version 0.0.5 tar.gz GPG sig - 26 Feb 2008
- version 0.0.4 tar.gz GPG sig - 12 Jan 2008
- version 0.0.3 tar.gz GPG sig - 25 Nov 2007
- version 0.0.2 tar.gz GPG sig - 25 Jan 2007
- version 0.0.1 tar.gz GPG sig - 9 Dec 2006
Rust bindings
There is the libopenraw crate
to use libopenraw from Rust with a Rust API. It is currently limited
to thumbnailing.
Where to go
- [PlannedFeatures]: what is the plan
- Getting the code: downloading the source
- Building: building the library
- Library Documentation (Doxygen generated)
- File Formats: our documentation on file formats
- Links: links to external documents that can be helpful
Getting in touch
Mailing lists
There is mailing list for developers available now. Visit https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libopenraw-dev to subscribe. You can also access the archive: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libopenraw-dev/
IRC
Join us on #libopenraw on the FreeNode irc network (irc.freenode.net)