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Import Export

The Guile-CV procedures and methods to load, save and query file system images.

Procedures

im-load

im-save

im-size

im-width

im-height

im-n-channel

im-gray?

im-rgb?

Procedure: im-load filename ¶

Returns a Guile-CV image.

Loads the image pointed by filename and returns a Guile-CV image. filename can either be a GRAY or an RGB image.

At this point, Guile-CV supports the following file formats: GIF, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, EXR, HDR, PNM (PBM, PGM, PPM), PNG, SunRaster, KHOROS-VIFF.

Procedure: im-save image filename [scale #f] ¶

Returns #t.

Saves image in filename.

The optional scale argument can take the following values:

#f

pixel values are ‘clipped’: values < 0 are saved as 0, values > 255 are saved as 255, and otherwise are saved unchanged

#t

all pixel values are scaled¹⁰ to the [0 255] range

The type in which image is saved is determined by the filename extension, as in the folowing example:

(im-load "edx.png")
...
(im-save $4 "/tmp/edx.jpg")

Method: im-size filename ¶

Returns the list of (width height n-channel)for filename.

Method: im-width filename ¶

Method: im-height filename ¶

Method: im-n-channel filename ¶

Returns, respectively the width, the height and the n-channel for filename.

Method: im-gray? filename ¶

Method: im-rgb? filename ¶

Returns #t if filename is respectively a GRAY scale or an RGB image.