Boost.GIL VS OpenEXR

Compare Boost.GIL vs OpenEXR and see what are their differences.

OpenEXR

The OpenEXR project provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, the professional-grade image storage format of the motion picture industry. (by AcademySoftwareFoundation)
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Boost.GIL OpenEXR
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173 1,579
2.3% 1.5%
4.2 9.2
11 days ago 4 days ago
C++ C
Boost Software License 1.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Boost.GIL

Posts with mentions or reviews of Boost.GIL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Boost.GIL yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

OpenEXR

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenEXR. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Boost.GIL and OpenEXR you can also consider the following projects:

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

CImg - The CImg Library is a small and open-source C++ toolkit for image processing

OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

OpenMVG (open Multiple View Geometry) - open Multiple View Geometry library. Basis for 3D computer vision and Structure from Motion.

VTK - Mirror of Visualization Toolkit repository

FreeImage - A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework.

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.