]> For libvips &version;. The latest version of this documentation can be found on the libvips website. libvips is a free image processing system. It is good with large images (images larger than the amount of RAM you have available), with many CPUs (speed scales linearly to at least 32 threads), for working with colour, for scientific analysis and for general research and development. As well as JPEG, TIFF and PNG images, it also supports scientific formats like FITS, Matlab, Analyze, PFM, Radiance and OpenSlide. It works on many UNIX-like platforms, as well as Windows and OS X. libvips is released under the GNU Library General Public License (GNU LGPL).