v2022.7.27

Imagecodecs is a Python library that provides block-oriented, in-memory buffer transformation, compression, and decompression functions for use in Tifffile, Czifile, Zarr, and other scientific image input/output packages.

Decode and/or encode functions are implemented for Zlib (DEFLATE), GZIP, ZStandard (ZSTD), Blosc, Brotli, Snappy, LZMA, BZ2, LZ4, LZ4F, LZ4HC, LZW, LZF, PGLZ (PostgreSQL LZ), RCOMP (Rice), ZFP, AEC, LERC, NPY, PNG, APNG, GIF, TIFF, WebP, QOI, JPEG 8-bit, JPEG 12-bit, Lossless JPEG (LJPEG, SOF3), JPEG 2000, JPEG LS, JPEG XR (WDP, HD Photo), JPEG XL, MOZJPEG, AVIF, HEIF, Jetraw, PackBits, Packed Integers, Delta, XOR Delta, Floating Point Predictor, Bitorder reversal, Byteshuffle, Bitshuffle, CMS (color space transformations), and Float24 (24-bit floating point).