openslide

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Overview

OpenSlide is a C library for reading whole slide image files (also known as virtual slides). It provides a consistent and simple API for reading files from multiple vendors.

OpenSlide can read brightfield whole slide images in several formats:

OpenSlide can also provide access to textual metadata, as well as associated images such as a slide label and thumbnail.

The API reference is available on the web, and is also included as doc/html/openslide_8h.html in the source tarball. Additional documentation is available on the OpenSlide website.

OpenSlide is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1.

OpenSlide is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

From the project’s README on GitHub.

At a glance

Repository	Kentucky-Open-Science/openslide
Research area	Medical imaging & digital pathology
Primary language	C
Languages	C 86.7%, Python 10.2%, Meson 1.6%, Roff 0.8%, MATLAB 0.6%, Shell 0.1%
License	LGPL-2.1
Stars / forks	0 / 0
Open issues and pull requests	1
Created	2022-08-26
Last push	2023-04-21
Default branch	`main`
Topics	digital-pathology

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Get the code

git clone https://github.com/Kentucky-Open-Science/openslide.git