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Open Source C/C++ Imaging Processing And Analysis Library

Leptonica is a pedagogically-oriented open source site containing software that is broadly useful for image processing and image analysis applications.

Featured operations are

  • Rasterop (a.k.a. bitblt)
  • Affine transformations (scaling, translation, rotation, shear) on images of arbitrary pixel depth
  • Binary and grayscale morphology, rank order, and convolution
  • Seedfill and connected components
  • Image transformations combining changes in scale and pixel depth
  • Pixelwise masking, blending, enhancement, arithmetic ops, etc.

Ancillary operations include

  • I/O for standard image formats
  • Utilities to handle arrays of image-related data types
  • Utilities for generic stacks, queues, heaps and lists; and for byte queues and arrays of numbers and strings

Example applications include

  • Octcube-based color quantization, with and without dithering
  • Modified median-cut color quantization, with and without dithering
  • Skew determination of text images
  • Segmentation of page images with mixed text and images
  • jbig2 unsupervised classifier
  • Border representations of 1 bit/pixel images and raster conversion for SVG
  • PostScript generation (levels 1, 2, 3) of images for device-independent output
  • PDF generation (levels 1, 2) of images for device-independent output
  • Dewarping images of text taken with a camera
  • Rendering text on an image
  • Connectivity-preserving thinning and thickening of 1 bit/pixel images
  • Line removal from a grayscale sketch
  • Search for least-cost paths on binary and grayscale images


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