libopenraw

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.

Status

This is currently a work in progress. The currently unreleased code is available in git. See GettingTheCode.

version 0.0.5 tar.gz GPG sig - 02/26/08
version 0.0.4 tar.gz GPG sig - 01/12/08
version 0.0.3 tar.gz GPG sig - 11/25/07
version 0.0.2 tar.gz GPG sig - 01/25/07
version 0.0.1 tar.gz GPG sig - 12/09/06

Where to go

PlannedFeatures: what are the plan
GettingTheCode: downloading the source
Packages: pre-built packages
Building: building the library
Library Documentation (Doxygen generated)
BugReporting: how to report a bug
FAQ: frequent questions
FileFormats: our documentation on file formats
LinkToDocumentation: external documentation
Demosaicing

Getting in touch

Mailing lists

There is mailing list for developers available now. Visit http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libopenraw-dev to subscribe. You can also access the archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libopenraw-dev/

IRC

Join us on #libopenraw on the FreeNode irc network (irc.freenode.net).

Satellite Projects

Exempi, a library to parse XMP metadata.
RawThumbnailer a thumbnailer for Gnome Nautilus that use libopenraw.

-- HubertFiguiere