---
id: imageio
version: "2.37.4"
license: BSD-2-Clause
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# ImageIO — Read and write images and video across all major formats. Supports scientific and volumetric data.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install imageio
uv add imageio
poetry add imageio

## Description

# IMAGEIO

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Website: <https://imageio.readthedocs.io/>

Imageio is a mature Python library that makes it easy to read and write image
and video data. This includes animated images, video, volumetric data, and
scientific formats. It is cross-platform, runs on Python 3.10+, and is easy...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

ImageIO reads and writes images and video across all major formats, including animated images, volumetric data, and scientific formats, with a simple unified API backed by numpy and pillow.

Verdict: ImageIO is a mature, actively maintained library (Production/Stable since 2012) with minimal dependencies and no known vulnerabilities. Its permissive BSD-2-Clause license and top-1000 PyPI popularity make it a low-risk choice for cross-platform image and video I/O in scientific and general applications.

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