LibRaw is a

free and open-source software Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software modified or not to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free ...

library for reading raw files from digital cameras. It supports virtually all raw formats. It is based on the source code of

dcraw dcraw is an open-source software, open-source computer program which is able to read numerous raw image format files, typically produced by mid-range and high-end digital cameras. dcraw converts these images into the standard Tagged Image File ...

, with modifications, and "is intended for embedding in raw converters, data analyzers, and other programs using raw files as the initial data." LibRaw is available for

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and

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. It is included in many

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s such as

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and

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. Software incorporating LibRaw includes

Affinity Photo Affinity Photo is a raster graphics editor developed by Serif Ltd. for iPadOS, macOS, and Windows, alongside Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. Development of Affinity Photo started in 2009 as a raster graphics editor for macOS. Its fir ...

digiKam digiKam is a free and open-source image organizer and tag editor written in C++ using the KDE Frameworks. Features digiKam runs on most known desktop environments and window managers, as long as the required libraries are installed. It suppor ...

, EasyHDR,

gThumb gThumb is a free and open-source image viewer and image organizer with options to edit images. It is designed to have a clean and simple user interface and follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and integrates well with the GNOME deskt ...

Gwenview Gwenview is an image viewer for Unix-like systems (including Linux) and is released as part of the KDE Applications bundle. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as ...

IrfanView IrfanView () is an image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows. It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use; commercial ...

KStars KStars is a free and open-source planetarium program built using the KDE Frameworks. It is available for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. A light version of KStars is available for Android devices. It provides an accurate graphical repre ...

OpenImageIO OpenImageIO is an open source library for reading and writing images. Support for different image formats is realised through plugins. The project is distributed with a modified BSD license. History Project ''OpenImageIO'' started as ''ImageIO' ...

, Siril, and Topaz Studio.

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*{{Official website Free computer libraries Graphics libraries C++ libraries Free software programmed in C++ Free raw image processing software Photo software for Linux Cross-platform free software Software using the GNU Lesser General Public License

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