OpenEXR VS Boost.GIL

Compare OpenEXR vs Boost.GIL 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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OpenEXR Boost.GIL
10 -
1,576 171
1.3% 1.2%
9.2 4.2
5 days ago 9 days ago
C C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Boost Software License 1.0
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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

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

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

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

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

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

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

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