# Imageio formats

This page lists all formats currently supported by imageio. Each format can support extra keyword arguments for reading and writing, which can be specified in the call to `get_reader()`, `get_writer()`, `imread()`, `imwrite()` etc. Further, formats are free to provide additional methods on their Reader and Writer objects. These parameters and extra methods are specified in the documentation for each format.

## Single images

> - TIFF - TIFF format
> - BMP-PIL - Windows Bitmap
> - BUFR-PIL - BUFR
> - CUR-PIL - Windows Cursor
> - DCX-PIL - Intel DCX
> - DDS-PIL - DirectDraw Surface
> - DIB-PIL - Windows Bitmap
> - EPS-PIL - Encapsulated Postscript
> - FITS-PIL - FITS
> - FLI-PIL - Autodesk FLI/FLC Animation
> - FPX-PIL - FlashPix
> - FTEX-PIL - Texture File Format (IW2:EOC)
> - GBR-PIL - GIMP brush file
> - GIF-PIL - Static and animated gif (Pillow)
> - GRIB-PIL - GRIB
> - HDF5-PIL - HDF5
> - ICNS-PIL - Mac OS icns resource
> - ICO-PIL - Windows Icon
> - IM-PIL - IFUNC Image Memory
> - IMT-PIL - IM Tools
> - IPTC-PIL - IPTC/NAA
> - JPEG-PIL - JPEG (ISO 10918)
> - JPEG2000-PIL - JPEG 2000 (ISO 15444)
> - MCIDAS-PIL - McIdas area file
> - MIC-PIL - Microsoft Image Composer
> - MPO-PIL - MPO (CIPA DC-007)
> - MSP-PIL - Windows Paint
> - PCD-PIL - Kodak PhotoCD
> - PCX-PIL - Paintbrush
> - PIXAR-PIL - PIXAR raster image
> - PNG-PIL - Portable network graphics
> - PPM-PIL - Pbmplus image
> - PSD-PIL - Adobe Photoshop
> - SGI-PIL - SGI Image File Format
> - SPIDER-PIL - Spider 2D image
> - SUN-PIL - Sun Raster File
> - TGA-PIL - Targa
> - TIFF-PIL - TIFF format (Pillow)
> - WMF-PIL - Windows Metafile
> - XBM-PIL - X11 Bitmap
> - XPM-PIL - X11 Pixel Map
> - XVTHUMB-PIL - XV thumbnail image
> - SCREENGRAB - Grab screenshots (Windows and OS X only)
> - CLIPBOARDGRAB - Grab from clipboard (Windows only)
> - BMP-FI - Windows or OS/2 Bitmap
> - CUT-FI - Dr. Halo
> - DDS-FI - DirectX Surface
> - EXR-FI - ILM OpenEXR
> - G3-FI - Raw fax format CCITT G.3
> - HDR-FI - High Dynamic Range Image
> - IFF-FI - IFF Interleaved Bitmap
> - J2K-FI - JPEG-2000 codestream
> - JNG-FI - JPEG Network Graphics
> - JP2-FI - JPEG-2000 File Format
> - JPEG-FI - JPEG - JFIF Compliant
> - JPEG-XR-FI - JPEG XR image format
> - KOALA-FI - C64 Koala Graphics
> - PBM-FI - Portable Bitmap (ASCII)
> - PBMRAW-FI - Portable Bitmap (RAW)
> - PCD-FI - Kodak PhotoCD
> - PCX-FI - Zsoft Paintbrush
> - PFM-FI - Portable floatmap
> - PGM-FI - Portable Greymap (ASCII)
> - PGMRAW-FI - Portable Greymap (RAW)
> - PICT-FI - Macintosh PICT
> - PNG-FI - Portable Network Graphics
> - PPM-FI - Portable Pixelmap (ASCII)
> - PPMRAW-FI - Portable Pixelmap (RAW)
> - PSD-FI - Adobe Photoshop
> - RAS-FI - Sun Raster Image
> - RAW-FI - RAW camera image
> - SGI-FI - SGI Image Format
> - TARGA-FI - Truevision Targa
> - TIFF-FI - Tagged Image File Format
> - WBMP-FI - Wireless Bitmap
> - WEBP-FI - Google WebP image format
> - XBM-FI - X11 Bitmap Format
> - XPM-FI - X11 Pixmap Format
> - ICO-FI - Windows icon
> - GIF-FI - Static and animated gif (FreeImage)
> - DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
> - NPZ - Numpy’s compressed array format
> - FEI - FEI-SEM TIFF format
> - FITS - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format
> - ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) format
> - GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
> - DUMMY - An example format that does nothing.

## Multiple images

> - TIFF - TIFF format
> - GIF-PIL - Static and animated gif (Pillow)
> - ICO-FI - Windows icon
> - GIF-FI - Static and animated gif (FreeImage)
> - FFMPEG - Many video formats and cameras (via ffmpeg)
> - AVBIN - Many video formats (via AvBin, i.e. libav library)
> - DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
> - NPZ - Numpy’s compressed array format
> - SWF - Shockwave flash
> - FITS - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format
> - ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) format
> - GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
> - DUMMY - An example format that does nothing.

## Single volumes

> - TIFF - TIFF format
> - DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
> - NPZ - Numpy’s compressed array format
> - FEI - FEI-SEM TIFF format
> - FITS - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format
> - ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) format
> - GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

## Multiple volumes

> - TIFF - TIFF format
> - DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
> - NPZ - Numpy’s compressed array format
> - FITS - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format
> - ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) format
> - GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library