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<A HREF="#BUILDING">Building leptonica</A><br>
<A HREF="#DEPENDENCIES">I/O libraries leptonica is dependent on</A><br>
<A HREF="#DOXYGEN">Generating documentation using doxygen</A><br>
<A HREF="#DEVELOP">Developing with leptonica</A><br>
<A HREF="#CONTENTS">What's in leptonica?</A><br>
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<h2> <A NAME="BUILDING">
Building leptonica
</h2>
<pre>
1. Top view
This tar includes:
(1) src: library source and function prototypes for building liblept
(2) prog: source for regression test, usage example programs, and
sample images
for building on these platforms:
- Linux on x86 (i386) and AMD 64 (x64)
- OSX (both powerPC and x86).
- Cygwin, msys and mingw on x86
There is an additional zip file for building with MS Visual Studio.
Libraries, executables and prototypes are easily made, as described below.
When you extract from the archive, all files are put in a
subdirectory 'leptonica-1.78.0'. In that directory you will
find a src directory containing the source files for the library,
and a prog directory containing source files for various
testing and example programs.
2. Building on Linux/Unix/MacOS
There are three ways to build the library:
(1) By customization: Use the existing static makefile,
src/makefile.static and customize the build by setting flags
in src/environ.h. See src/environ.h and src/makefile for details.
Note: if you are going to develop with leptonica, I encourage
you to use the static makefiles.
(2) Using autoconf (supported by James Le Cuirot).
Run ./configure in this directory to
build Makefiles here and in src. Autoconf handles the
following automatically:
* architecture endianness
* enabling Leptonica I/O image read/write functions that
depend on external libraries (if the libraries exist)
* enabling functions for redirecting formatted image stream
I/O to memory (on Linux only)
After running ./configure: make; make install. There's also
a 'make check' for testing.
(3) Using cmake (supported by Egor Pugin).
The build must always be in a different directory from the root
of the source (here). It is common to build in a subdirectory
of the root. From the root directory, do this:
mkdir build
cd build
Then to make only the library:
cmake ..
make
To make both the library and the programs:
cmake .. -DBUILD_PROG=1
make
To clean out the current build, just remove everything in
the build subdirectory.
In more detail:
(1) Customization using the static makefiles:
* FIRST THING: Run make-for-local. This simply renames
src/makefile.static --> src/makefile
prog/makefile.static --> prog/makefile
[Note: the autoconf build will not work if you have any files
named "makefile" in src or prog. If you've already run
make-for-local and renamed the static makefiles, and you then
want to build with autoconf, run make-for-auto to rename them
back to makefile.static.]
* You can customize for:
(a) Including Leptonica I/O functions that depend on external
libraries [use flags in src/environ.h]
(b) Adding functions for redirecting formatted image stream
I/O to memory [use flag in src/environ.h]
(c) Specifying the location of the object code. By default it
goes into a tree whose root is also the parent of the src
and prog directories. This can be changed using the
ROOT_DIR variable in makefile.
* Build the library:
- To make an optimized version of the library (in src):
make
- To make a debug version of the library (in src):
make DEBUG=yes debug
- To make a shared library version (in src):
make SHARED=yes shared
- To make the prototype extraction program (in src):
make (to make the library first)
make xtractprotos
* To use shared libraries, you need to include the location of
the shared libraries in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
* To make the programs in the prog directory, first make liblept
in src. Then in prog you can customize the makefile for linking
the external libraries:
Finally, do 'make' in the prog directory.
VERY IMPORTANT: the 270+ programs in the prog directory are
an integral part of this package. These can be divided into
four groups:
(1) Programs that are useful applications for running on the
command line. They can be installed from autoconf builds
using 'make install'. Examples of these are the PostScript
and pdf conversion programs: converttopdf, converttops,
convertfilestopdf, convertfilestops, convertsegfilestopdf,
convertsegfilestops, imagetops, printimage and printsplitimage.
(2) Programs that are used as regression tests in alltests_reg.
These are named *_reg, and 100 of them are invoked together
(alltests_reg). The regression test framework has been
standardized, and regresstion tests are relatively easy
to write. See regutils.h for details.
(3) Other regression tests, some of which have not (yet) been
put into the framework. They are also named *_reg.
(4) Programs that were used to test library functions or
auto-generate library code. These are useful for testing
the behavior of small sets of functions, and for
providing example code.
(2) Building using autoconf (Thanks to James Le Cuirot)
Use the standard incantation, in the root directory (the
directory with configure):
./configure [build the Makefile]
make [builds the library and shared library versions of
all the progs]
make install [as root; this puts liblept.a into /usr/local/lib/
and 13 of the progs into /usr/local/bin/ ]
make [-j2] check [runs the alltests_reg set of regression tests.
This works even if you build in a different
place from the distribution. The -j parameter
should not exceed half the number of cores.
If the test fails, just run with 'make check']
Configure supports installing in a local directory (e.g., one that
doesn't require root access). For example, to install in $HOME/local,
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/
make install
For different ways to build and link leptonica with tesseract, see
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Compiling
In brief, using autotools to build tesseract and then install it
in $HOME/local (after installing leptonica there), do the
following from your tesseract root source directory:
./autogen.sh
LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=$HOME/local/include ./configure \
--prefix=$HOME/local/ --with-extra-libraries=$HOME/local/lib
make install
Configure also supports building in a separate directory from the
source. Run "/(path-to)/leptonica-1.78.0/configure" and then "make"
from the desired build directory.
Configure has a number of useful options; run "configure --help" for
details. If you're not planning to modify the library, adding the
"--disable-dependency-tracking" option will speed up the build. By
default, both static and shared versions of the library are built. Add
the "--disable-shared" or "--disable-static" option if one or the other
isn't needed. To skip building the programs, use "--disable-programs".
By default, the library is built with debugging symbols. If you do not
want these, use "CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure" to eliminate symbols for
subsequent compilations, or "make CFLAGS=-O2" to override the default
for compilation only. Another option is to use the 'install-strip'
target (i.e., "make install-strip") to remove the debugging symbols
when the library is installed.
Finally, if you find that the installed programs are unable to link
at runtime to the installed library, which is in /usr/local/lib,
try to run configure in this way:
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib" ./configure
which causes the compiler to pass those options through to the linker.
For the Debian distribution, out of all the programs in the prog
directory, we only build a small subset of general purpose
utility programs. This subset is the same set of programs that
'make install' puts into /usr/local/bin. It has no dependency on
the image files that are bundled in the prog directory for testing.
(3) Using cmake
The usual method is to build in a directory that is a subdirectory
of the root. First do this from the root directory:
mkdir build
cd build
Then, there are two useful flags you can use on the cmake line to
determine what is built.
* By default, cmake builds a shared library. To make a static
library:
cmake .. -DSTATIC=1
make
* By default, cmake only builds the library, not the programs.
To make both the library and the programs:
cmake .. -DBUILD_PROG=1
make
The programs are put in build/bin/
To run these (e.g., for testing), move them to the prog
directory and run them from there:
cd bin
mv * ../../prog/
cd ../../prog
alltests_reg generate
alltests_reg compare
To build the library directly from the root directory instead of
the build subdirectory:
mkdir build
cmake -H . -Bbuild (-H means the source directory,
-B means the directory for the build
make
3. Building on Windows
(a) Building with Visual Studio
1. Download the latest CPPAN (C++ Archive Network https://cppan.org/)
client from https://cppan.org/client/
2. Run:
git clone https://github.com/danbloomberg/leptonica
cd leptonica
cppan
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
3. Build a solution (leptonica.sin) in your Visual Studio version.
(b) Building for mingw32 with <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">MSYS</a>
(Thanks to David Bryan)
MSYS is a Unix-compatible build environment for the Windows-native
mingw32 compiler. Selecting the "mingw-developer-toolkit",
"mingw32-base", and "msys-base" packages during installation will allow
building the library with autoconf as in (2) above. It will also allow
building with the static makefile as in (1) above if this option is used
in the make command line:
CC='gcc -std=c99 -U__STRICT_ANSI__'
Only the static library may be built this way; the autoconf method must
be used if a shared (DLL) library is desired.
External image libraries (see below) must be downloaded separately,
built, and installed before building the library. Pre-built libraries
are available from the <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/">ezwinports</a> project.
(c) Building for <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>
(Thanks to David Bryan)
Cygwin is a Unix-compatible build and runtime environment. Adding the
"binutils", "gcc-core", and "make" packages from the "Devel" category and
the "diffutils" package from the "Utils" category to the packages
installed by default will allow building the library with autoconf as in
(2) above. Pre-built external image libraries are available in the
"Graphics" and "Libs" categories and may be selected for installation.
If the libraries are not installed into the /lib, /usr/lib, or
/usr/local/lib directories, you must run make with the
"LDFLAGS=-L/(path-to-image)/lib" option. Building may also be performed
with the static makefile as in (1) above if this option is used in the
make command:
CC='gcc -std=c99 -U__STRICT_ANSI__'
Only the static library may be built this way; the autoconf method must
be used if a shared (DLL) library is desired.
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<h2> <A NAME="DEPENDENCIES">
I/O libraries leptonica is dependent on
</h2>
<pre>
Leptonica is configured to handle image I/O using these external
libraries: libjpeg, libtiff, libpng, libz, libwebp, libgif, libopenjp2
These libraries are easy to obtain. For example, using the
Debian package manager:
sudo apt-get install <package>
where <package> = {libpng-dev, libjpeg62-turbo-dev, libtiff5-dev,
libwebp-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev, libgif-dev}.
Leptonica also allows image I/O with bmp and pnm formats, for which
we provide the serializers (encoders and decoders). It also
gives output drivers for wrapping images in PostScript and PDF, which
in turn use tiffg4, jpeg and flate (i.e., zlib) encoding. PDF will
also wrap jpeg2000 images.
There is a programmatic interface to gnuplot. To use it, you
need only the gnuplot executable (suggest version 3.7.2 or later);
the gnuplot library is not required.
If you build with automake, libraries on your system will be
automatically found and used.
The rest of this section is for building with the static makefiles.
The entries in environ.h specify which of these libraries to use.
The default is to link to these four libraries:
libjpeg.a (standard jfif jpeg library, version 6b or 7, 8 or 9))
libtiff.a (standard Leffler tiff library, version 3.7.4 or later;
libpng.a (standard png library, suggest version 1.4.0 or later)
libz.a (standard gzip library, suggest version 1.2.3)
current non-beta version is 3.8.2)
These libraries (and their shared versions) should be in /usr/lib.
(If they're not, you can change the LDFLAGS variable in the makefile.)
Additionally, for compilation, the following header files are
assumed to be in /usr/include:
jpeg: jconfig.h
png: png.h, pngconf.h
tiff: tiff.h, tiffio.h
If for some reason you do not want to link to specific libraries,
even if you have them, stub files are included for the ten
different output formats:
bmp, jpeg, png, pnm, ps, pdf, tiff, gif, webp and jp2.
For example, if you don't want to include the tiff library,
in environ.h set:
#define HAVE_LIBTIFF 0
and the stubs will be linked in.
To read and write webp files:
(1) Download libwebp from sourceforge
(2) #define HAVE_LIBWEBP 1 (in environ.h)
(3) In prog/makefile, edit ALL_LIBS to include -lwebp
(4) The library will be installed into /usr/local/lib.
You may need to add that directory to LDFLAGS; or, equivalently,
add that path to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
To read and write jpeg2000 files:
(1) Download libopenjp2, version 2.3, from their distribution.
(2) #define HAVE_LIBJP2K 1 (in environ.h)
(2a) If you have version 2.X, X != 3, edit LIBJP2K_HEADER (in environ.h)
(3) In prog/makefile, edit ALL_LIBS to include -lopenjp2
(4) The library will be installed into /usr/local/lib.
To read and write gif files:
(1) Download version giflib-5.1.X+ from souceforge
(2) #define HAVE_LIBGIF 1 (in environ.h)
(3) In prog/makefile, edit ALL_LIBS to include -lgif
(4) The library will be installed into /usr/local/lib.
</pre>
<h2> <A NAME="DOXYGEN">
Generating documentation using doxygen
</h2>
<pre>
The source code is set up to allow generation of documentation using doxygen.
To do this:
(1) Download the Debian doxygen package:
sudo apt-get install doxygen
(2) In the root client directory containing Doxyfile:
doxygen Doxyfile
The documentation will be generated in a 'doc' subdirectory, accessible
from this file (relative to the root)
./doc/html/index.html
</pre>
<h2> <A NAME="DEVELOP">
Developing with leptonica
</h2>
<pre>
You are encouraged to use the static makefiles if you are developing
applications using leptonica. The following instructions assume
that you are using the static makefiles and customizing environ.h.
1. Automatic generation of prototypes
The prototypes are automatically generated by the program xtractprotos.
They can either be put in-line into allheaders.h, or they can be
written to a file leptprotos.h, which is #included in allheaders.h.
Note: (1) We supply the former version of allheaders.h.
(2) all .c files simply include allheaders.h.
First, make xtractprotos:
make xtractprotos
Then to generate the prototypes and make allheaders.h, do one of
these two things:
make allheaders [puts everything into allheaders.h]
make allprotos [generates a file leptprotos.h containing the
function prototypes, and includes it in allheaders.h]
Things to note about xtractprotos, assuming that you are developing
in Leptonica and need to regenerate the prototypes in allheaders.h:
(1) xtractprotos is part of Leptonica. You can 'make' it in either
src or prog (see the makefile).
(2) You can output the prototypes for any C file to stdout by running:
xtractprotos <cfile> or
xtractprotos -prestring=[string] <cfile>
(3) The source for xtractprotos has been packaged up into a tar
containing just the Leptonica files necessary for building it
in Linux. The tar file is available at:
www.leptonica.com/source/xtractlib-1.5.tar.gz
2. Global parameter to enable development and testing
For security reasons, with the exception of the regression utility
(regutils.c), leptonica as shipped (starting with 1.77) does not allow:
* 'system(3)' fork/exec
* writes to temp files with compiled-in names
System calls are used either to run gnuplot or display an image on
the screen.
This is enforced with a global parameter, LeptDebugOK, initialized to 0.
It can be overridden either by changing the initialization (in writefile.c)
and recompiling, or by resetting, using setLeptDebugOK() in a program.
The programs in the prog directory, which mostly test functions in
the library, are not subject to this restriction.
3. GNU runtime functions for stream redirection to memory
There are two non-standard gnu functions, fmemopen() and open_memstream(),
that only work on Linux and conveniently allow memory I/O with a file
stream interface. This is convenient for compressing and decompressing
image data to memory rather than to file. Stubs are provided
for all these I/O functions. Default is to enable them; OSX developers
must disable by setting #define HAVE_FMEMOPEN 0 (in environ.h).
If these functions are not enabled, raster to compressed data in
memory is accomplished safely but through a temporary file.
See 9 for more details on image I/O formats.
If you're building with the autoconf programs, these two functions are
automatically enabled if available.
4. Runtime functions not available on all platforms
Some functions are not available on all systems. One example of such a
function is fstatat(). If possible, such functions will be replaced by
wrappers, stubs or behavioral equivalent functions. By default, such
functions are disabled; enable them by setting #define HAVE_FUNC 1 (in
environ.h).
If you're building with the autoconf or cmake programs, these functions are
automatically enabled if available.
5. Typedefs
A deficiency of C is that no standard has been universally
adopted for typedefs of the built-in types. As a result,
typedef conflicts are common, and cause no end of havoc when
you try to link different libraries. If you're lucky, you
can find an order in which the libraries can be linked
to avoid these conflicts, but the state of affairs is aggravating.
The most common typedefs use lower case variables: uint8, int8, ...
The png library avoids typedef conflicts by altruistically
appending "png_" to the type names. Following that approach,
Leptonica appends "l_" to the type name. This should avoid
just about all conflicts. In the highly unlikely event that it doesn't,
here's a simple way to change the type declarations throughout
the Leptonica code:
(1) customize a file "converttypes.sed" with the following lines:
/l_uint8/s//YOUR_UINT8_NAME/g
/l_int8/s//YOUR_INT8_NAME/g
/l_uint16/s//YOUR_UINT16_NAME/g
/l_int16/s//YOUR_INT16_NAME/g
/l_uint32/s//YOUR_UINT32_NAME/g
/l_int32/s//YOUR_INT32_NAME/g
/l_float32/s//YOUR_FLOAT32_NAME/g
/l_float64/s//YOUR_FLOAT64_NAME/g
(2) in the src and prog directories:
- if you have a version of sed that does in-place conversion:
sed -i -f converttypes.sed *
- else, do something like (in csh)
foreach file (*)
sed -f converttypes.sed $file > tempdir/$file
end
If you are using Leptonica with a large code base that typedefs the
built-in types differently from Leptonica, just edit the typedefs
in environ.h. This should have no side-effects with other libraries,
and no issues should arise with the location in which liblept is
included.
For compatibility with 64 bit hardware and compilers, where
necessary we use the typedefs in stdint.h to specify the pointer
size (either 4 or 8 byte).
6. Compile-time control over stderr output (see environ.h)
Leptonica provides both compile-time and run-time control over
messages and debug output (thanks to Dave Bryan). Both compile-time
and run-time severity thresholds can be set. The run-time threshold
can also be set by an environmental variable. Messages are
vararg-formatted and of 3 types: error, warning, informational.
These are all macros, and can be further suppressed when
NO_CONSOLE_IO is defined on the compile line. For production code
where no output is to go to stderr, compile with -DNO_CONSOLE_IO.
7. In-memory raster format (Pix)
Unlike many other open source packages, Leptonica uses packed
data for images with all bit/pixel (bpp) depths, allowing us
to process pixels in parallel. For example, rasterops works
on all depths with 32-bit parallel operations throughout.
Leptonica is also explicitly configured to work on both little-endian
and big-endian hardware. RGB image pixels are always stored
in 32-bit words, and a few special functions are provided for
scaling and rotation of RGB images that have been optimized by
making explicit assumptions about the location of the R, G and B
components in the 32-bit pixel. In such cases, the restriction
is documented in the function header. The in-memory data structure
used throughout Leptonica to hold the packed data is a Pix,
which is defined and documented in pix.h. The alpha component
in RGB images is significantly better supported, starting in 1.70.
Additionally, a FPix is provided for handling 2D arrays of floats,
and a DPix is provided for 2D arrays of doubles. Converters
between these and the Pix are given.
8. Conversion between Pix and other in-memory raster formats
. If you use Leptonica with other imaging libraries, you will need
functions to convert between the Pix and other image data
structures. To make a Pix from other image data structures, you
will need to understand pixel packing, pixel padding, component
ordering and byte ordering on raster lines. See the file pix.h
for the specification of image data in the pix.
9. Custom memory management
Leptonica allows you to use custom memory management (allocator,
deallocator). For Pix, which tend to be large, the alloc/dealloc
functions can be set programmatically. For all other structs and arrays,
the allocators are specified in environ.h. Default functions
are malloc and free. We have also provided a sample custom
allocator/deallocator for Pix, in pixalloc.c.
</pre>
<h2> <A NAME="CONTENTS">
What's in leptonica?
</h2>
<pre>
1. Rasterops
This is a source for a clean, fast implementation of rasterops.
You can find details starting at the Leptonica home page,
and also by looking directly at the source code.
Some of the low-level code is in roplow.c, and an interface is
given in rop.c to the simple Pix image data structure.
2. Binary morphology
This is a source for efficient implementations of binary morphology
Details are found starting at the Leptonica home page, and by reading
the source code.
Binary morphology is implemented two ways:
(a) Successive full image rasterops for arbitrary
structuring elements (Sels)
(b) Destination word accumulation (dwa) for specific Sels.
This code is automatically generated. See, for example,
the code in fmorphgen.1.c and fmorphgenlow.1.c.
These files were generated by running the program
prog/fmorphautogen.c. Results can be checked by comparing dwa
and full image rasterops; e.g., prog/fmorphauto_reg.c.
Method (b) is considerably faster than (a), which is the
reason we've gone to the effort of supporting the use
of this method for all Sels. We also support two different
boundary conditions for erosion.
Similarly, dwa code for the general hit-miss transform can
be auto-generated from an array of hit-miss Sels.
When prog/fhmtautogen.c is compiled and run, it generates
the dwa C code in fhmtgen.1.c and fhmtgenlow.1.c. These
files can then be compiled into the libraries or into other programs.
Results can be checked by comparing dwa and rasterop results;
e.g., prog/fhmtauto_reg.c
Several functions with simple parsers are provided to execute a
sequence of morphological operations (plus binary rank reduction
and replicative expansion). See morphseq.c.
The structuring element is represented by a simple Sel data structure
defined in morph.h. We provide (at least) seven ways to generate
Sels in sel1.c, and several simple methods to generate hit-miss
Sels for pattern finding in selgen.c.
In use, the most common morphological Sels are separable bricks,
of dimension n x m (where either n or m, but not both, is commonly 1).
Accordingly, we provide separable morphological operations on brick
Sels, using for binary both rasterops and dwa. Parsers are provided
for a sequence of separable binary (rasterop and dwa) and grayscale
brick morphological operations, in morphseq.c. The main
advantage in using the parsers is that you don't have to create
and destroy Sels, or do any of the intermediate image bookkeeping.
We also give composable separable brick functions for binary images,
for both rasterop and dwa. These decompose each of the linear
operations into a sequence of two operations at different scales,
reducing the operation count to a sum of decomposition factors,
rather than the (un-decomposed) product of factors.
As always, parsers are provided for a sequence of such operations.
3. Grayscale morphology and rank order filters
We give an efficient implementation of grayscale morphology for brick
Sels. See the Leptonica home page and the source code.
Brick Sels are separable into linear horizontal and vertical elements.
We use the van Herk/Gil-Werman algorithm, that performs the calculations
in a time that is independent of the size of the Sels. Implementations
of tophat and hdome are also given.
We also provide grayscale rank order filters for brick filters.
The rank order filter is a generalization of grayscale morphology,
that selects the rank-valued pixel (rather than the min or max).
A color rank order filter applies the grayscale rank operation
independently to each of the (r,g,b) components.
4. Image scaling
Leptonica provides many simple and relatively efficient
implementations of image scaling. Some of them are listed here;
for the full set see the web page and the source code.
Grayscale and color images are scaled using:
- sampling
- lowpass filtering followed by sampling,
- area mapping
- linear interpolation
Scaling operations with antialiased sampling, area mapping,
and linear interpolation are limited to 2, 4 and 8 bpp gray,
24 bpp full RGB color, and 2, 4 and 8 bpp colormapped
(bpp == bits/pixel). Scaling operations with simple sampling
can be done at 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 bpp. Linear interpolation
is slower but gives better results, especially for upsampling.
For moderate downsampling, best results are obtained with area
mapping scaling. With very high downsampling, either area mapping
or antialias sampling (lowpass filter followed by sampling) give
good results. Fast area map with power-of-2 reduction are also
provided. Optional sharpening after resampling is provided to
improve appearance by reducing the visual effect of averaging
across sharp boundaries.
For fast analysis of grayscale and color images, it is useful to
have integer subsampling combined with pixel depth reduction.
RGB color images can thus be converted to low-resolution
grayscale and binary images.
For binary scaling, the dest pixel can be selected from the
closest corresponding source pixel. For the special case of
power-of-2 binary reduction, low-pass rank-order filtering can be
done in advance. Isotropic integer expansion is done by pixel replication.
We also provide 2x, 3x, 4x, 6x, 8x, and 16x scale-to-gray reduction
on binary images, to produce high quality reduced grayscale images.
These are integrated into a scale-to-gray function with arbitrary
reduction.
Conversely, we have special 2x and 4x scale-to-binary expansion
on grayscale images, using linear interpolation on grayscale
raster line buffers followed by either thresholding or dithering.
There are also image depth converters that don't have scaling,
such as unpacking operations from 1 bpp to grayscale, and
thresholding and dithering operations from grayscale to 1, 2 and 4 bpp.
5. Image shear and rotation (and affine, projective, ...)
Image shear is implemented with both rasterops and linear interpolation.
The rasterop implementation is faster and has no constraints on image
depth. We provide horizontal and vertical shearing about an
arbitrary point (really, a line), both in-place and from source to dest.
The interpolated shear is used on 8 bpp and 32 bpp images, and
gives a smoother result. Shear is used for the fastest implementations
of rotation.
There are three different types of general image rotators:
a. Grayscale rotation using area mapping
- pixRotateAM() for 8 bit gray and 24 bit color, about center
- pixRotateAMCorner() for 8 bit gray, about image UL corner
- pixRotateAMColorFast() for faster 24 bit color, about center
b. Rotation of an image of arbitrary bit depth, using
either 2 or 3 shears. These rotations can be done
about an arbitrary point, and they can be either
from source to dest or in-place; e.g.
- pixRotateShear()
- pixRotateShearIP()
c. Rotation by sampling. This can be used on images of arbitrary
depth, and done about an arbitrary point. Colormaps are retained.
The area mapping rotations are slower and more accurate, because each
new pixel is composed using an average of four neighboring pixels
in the original image; this is sometimes also also called "antialiasing".
Very fast color area mapping rotation is provided.
The shear rotations are much faster, and work on images of arbitrary
pixel depth, but they just move pixels around without doing any averaging.
The pixRotateShearIP() operates on the image in-place.
We also provide orthogonal rotators (90, 180, 270 degree; left-right
flip and top-bottom flip) for arbitrary image depth.
And we provide implementations of affine, projective and bilinear
transforms, with both sampling (for speed) and interpolation
(for antialiasing).
6. Sequential algorithms
We provide a number of fast sequential algorithms, including
binary and grayscale seedfill, and the distance function for
a binary image. The most efficient binary seedfill is
pixSeedfill(), which uses Luc Vincent's algorithm to iterate
raster- and antiraster-ordered propagation, and can be used
for either 4- or 8-connected fills. Similar raster/antiraster
sequential algorithms are used to generate a distance map from
a binary image, and for grayscale seedfill. We also use Heckbert's
stack-based filling algorithm for identifying 4- and 8-connected
components in a binary image. A fast implementation of the
watershed transform, using a priority queue, is included.
7. Image enhancement
Some simple image enhancement routines for grayscale and color
images have been provided. These include intensity mapping with
gamma correction and contrast enhancement, histogram equalization,
edge sharpening, smoothing, and various color-shifting operations.
8. Convolution and cousins
A number of standard image processing operations are also
included, such as block convolution, binary block rank filtering,
grayscale and rgb rank order filtering, and edge and local
minimum/maximum extraction. Generic convolution is included,
for both separable and non-separable kernels, using float arrays
in the Pix. Two implementations are included for grayscale and
color bilateral filtering: a straightforward (slow) one, and a
fast, approximate, separable one.
9. Image I/O
Some facilities have been provided for image input and output.
This is of course required to build executables that handle images,
and many examples of such programs, most of which are for
testing, can be built in the prog directory. Functions have been
provided to allow reading and writing of files in JPEG, PNG,
TIFF, BMP, PNM ,GIF, WEBP and JP2 formats. These formats were chosen
for the following reasons:
- JFIF JPEG is the standard method for lossy compression
of grayscale and color images. It is supported natively
in all browsers, and uses a good open source compression
library. Decompression is supported by the rasterizers
in PS and PDF, for level 2 and above. It has a progressive
mode that compresses about 10% better than standard, but
is considerably slower to decompress. See jpegio.c.
- PNG is the standard method for lossless compression
of binary, grayscale and color images. It is supported
natively in all browsers, and uses a good open source
compression library (zlib). It is superior in almost every
respect to GIF (which, until recently, contained proprietary
LZW compression). See pngio.c.
- TIFF is a common interchange format, which supports different
depths, colormaps, etc., and also has a relatively good and
widely used binary compression format (CCITT Group 4).
Decompression of G4 is supported by rasterizers in PS and PDF,
level 2 and above. G4 compresses better than PNG for most
text and line art images, but it does quite poorly for halftones.
It has good and stable support by Leffler's open source library,
which is clean and small. Tiff also supports multipage
images through a directory structure. See tiffio.c
- BMP has (until recently) had no compression. It is a simple
format with colormaps that requires no external libraries.
It is commonly used because it is a Microsoft standard,
but has little besides simplicity to recommend it. See bmpio.c.
- PNM is a very simple, old format that still has surprisingly
wide use in the image processing community. It does not
support compression or colormaps, but it does support binary,
grayscale and rgb images. Like BMP, the implementation
is simple and requires no external libraries. See pnmio.c.
- WEBP is a new wavelet encoding method derived from libvpx,
a video compression library. It is rapidly growing in acceptance,
and is supported natively in several browsers. Leptonica provides
an interface through webp into the underlying codec. You need
to download libwebp. See webpio.c.
- JP2 (jpeg2000) is a wavelet encoding method, that has clear
advantages over jpeg in compression and quality (especially when
the image has sharp edges, such as scanned documents), but is
only slowly growing in acceptance. For it to be widely supported,
it will require support on a major browser (as with webp).
Leptonica provides an interface through openjpeg into the underlying
codec. You need to download libopenjp2, version 2.X. See jp2kio.c.
- GIF is still widely used in the world. With the expiration
of the LZW patent, it is practical to add support for GIF files.
The open source gif library is relatively incomplete and
unsupported (because of the Sperry-Rand-Burroughs-Univac
patent history). Leptonica supports versions 5.1+. See gifio.c.
Here's a summary of compression support and limitations:
- All formats except JPEG, WEBP and JP2K support 1 bpp binary.
- All formats support 8 bpp grayscale (GIF must have a colormap).
- All formats except GIF support rgb color.
- All formats except PNM, JPEG, WEBP and JP2K support 8 bpp colormap.
- PNG and PNM support 2 and 4 bpp images.
- PNG supports 2 and 4 bpp colormap, and 16 bpp without colormap.
- PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WEBP, JP2K and GIF support image compression;
PNM and BMP do not.
- WEBP supports rgb color and rgba.
- JP2 supports 8 bpp grayscale, rgb color and rgba.
Use prog/ioformats_reg for a regression test on all formats, including
thorough testing on TIFF.
For more thorough testing on other formats, use:
- prog/pngio_reg for PNG.
- prog/gifio_reg for GIF
- prog/webpio_reg for WEBP
- prog/jp2kio_reg for JP2
We provide generators for PS output, from all types of input images.
The output can be either uncompressed or compressed with level 2
(ccittg4 or dct) or level 3 (flate) encoding. You have flexibility
for scaling and placing of images, and for printing at different
resolutions. You can also compose mixed raster (text, image) PS.
See psio1.c for examples of how to output PS for different applications.
As examples of usage, see:
* prog/converttops.c for a general image --> PS conversion
for printing. You can specify the PS compression level (1, 2, or 3).
* prog/imagetops.c for a special image --> PS conversion
for printing at maximum size on 8.5 x 11 paper. You can
specify the PS compression level (1, 2, or 3).
* prog/convertfilestops.c to generate a multipage level 3 compressed
PS file that can then be converted to pdf with ps2pdf.
* prog/convertsegfilestops.c to generate a multipage, mixed raster,
level 2 compressed PS file.
We provide generators for PDF output, again from all types of input
images, and with ccittg4, dct, flate and jpx (jpeg2000) compression.
You can do the following for PDF:
* Put any number of images onto a page, with specified input
resolution, location and compression.
* Write a mixed raster PDF, given an input image and a segmentation
mask. Non-image regions are written in G4 (fax) encoding.
* Concatenate single-page PDF wrapped images into a single PDF file.
* Build a PDF file of all images in a directory or array of file names.
As examples of usage, see:
* prog/converttopdf.c: fast pdf generation with one image/page.
For speed, this avoids transcoding whenever possible.
* prog/convertfilestopdf.c: more flexibility in the output. You
can set the resolution, scaling, encoding type and jpeg quality.
* prog/convertsegfilestopdf.c: generates a multipage, mixed raster pdf,
with separate controls for compressing text and non-text regions.
Note: any or all of these I/O library calls can be stubbed out at
compile time, using the environment variables in environ.h.
For all formatted reads and writes, we support read from memory
and write to memory. The gnu C runtime library (glibc) supports
two I/O functions, open_memstream() and fmemopen(), which read
and write directly to memory as if writing to a file stream.
* On all platforms, leptonica supports direct read/write with memory
for TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF and WEBP formats.
* On linux, leptonica uses the special gnu libraries to enable
direct read/write with memory for JPEG, PNM and JP2.
* On platforms without the gnu libraries, such as OSX, Windows
and Solaris, read/write with memory for JPEG, PNM and JP2 goes
through temp files.
To enable/disable memory I/O for image read/write, see environ.h.
We also provide fast serialization and deserialization between a pix
in memory and a file (spixio.c). This works on all types of pix images.
10. Colormap removal and color quantization
Leptonica provides functions that remove colormaps, for conversion
to either 8 bpp gray or 24 bpp RGB. It also provides the inverse
function to colormap removal; namely, color quantization
from 24 bpp full color to 8 bpp colormap with some number
of colormap colors. Several versions are provided, some that
use a fast octree vector quantizer and others that use
a variation of the median cut quantizer. For high-level interfaces,
see for example: pixConvertRGBToColormap(), pixOctreeColorQuant(),
pixOctreeQuantByPopulation(), pixFixedOctcubeQuant256(),
and pixMedianCutQuant().