From 64ef921f69a31e4aa42fd5dfd9e1447a31a2128c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Cupitt Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:22:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] README updates --- README.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 820f139e..735771ef 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,24 @@ # libvips : an image processing library -libvips is an image processing library. It's good for large images and for -colour. There's a GUI as well, see the [VIPS website](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk). +libvips is a 2D image processing library. Compared to similar libraries, +[libvips runs quickly and uses little +memory](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Speed_and_Memory_Use). + +It has around 300 operations, covering arithmetic, histograms, convolutions, +morphological operations, frequency filtering, colour, resampling, statistics +and others. It supports a large range of numeric formats, from 8-bit int to +128-bit complex. It supports a good range of image formats, including +JPEG, TIFF, PNG, FITS, Matlab, OpenEXR, and OpenSlide. It can also load +images via ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick. + +It has APIs for C and C++ and comes with a Python +binding and a command-line interface. Bindings are +available for Ruby, JavaScript and others. There is full [API +documentation](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/libvips/index.html), +plus a [tutorial-style +manual](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/vipsmanual/vipsmanual.html). + +There's a GUI as well, see the [VIPS website](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk). There are packages for most unix-like operating systems and binaries for Windows and OS X.