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# Third-party plugins

Pillow uses a plugin model which allows users to add their own decoders and encoders to the library, without any changes to the library itself.

Here is a list of PyPI projects that offer additional plugins:

- amigainfo: Adds support for Amiga Workbench .info icon files.

- amos-abk: AMOS BASIC sprite and image banks.

- DjvuRleImagePlugin: Plugin for the DjVu RLE image format as defined in the DjVuLibre docs.

- heif-image-plugin: Simple HEIF/HEIC images plugin, based on the pyheif library.

- jxlpy: Introduces reading and writing support for JPEG XL.

- pillow-degas: Adds reading Atari ST Degas image files.

- pillow-heif: Python bindings to libheif for working with HEIF images.

- pillow-jpls: Plugin for the JPEG-LS codec, based on the Charls JPEG-LS implementation. Python bindings implemented using pybind11.

- pillow-jxl-plugin: Plugin for JPEG-XL, using Rust for bindings.

- pillow-mbm: Adds support for KSP’s proprietary MBM texture format.

- pillow-netpbm: Adds .pam support, and loads images using Netpbm’s converter collection.

- pillow-svg: Implements basic SVG read support. Supports basic paths, shapes, and text.

- raw-pillow-opener: Simple camera raw opener, based on the rawpy library.