DATA SIMPLIFICATION: ImageMagick

Over the next few weeks, I will be writing on topics related to my latest book, Data Simplification: Taming Information With Open Source Tools (release date March 23, 2016). I hope I can convince you that this is a book worth reading. Blog readers can use the discount code: COMP315 for a 30% discount, at checkout. In yesterday's blog, I discussed using system calls within your scripts. One of my examples called an ImageMagick. Today, I thought I'd describe ImageMagick, and some of its benefits. ImageMagick is an open source utility that supports a huge selection of robust and sophisticated image editing methods. Its source code download site is: http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ Users may find it convenient to download the executable binaries, for their specific operating system, from: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php Hundreds of ImageMagick methods are described in detail, and useful examples are provided, at: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/ There are several things you should know about ImageMagick: 1. Unlike the commercial image processing applications, ImageMagick has no graphic user interface. ImageMagick is intended to serve as a command line utility. 2. ImageMagick is powerful. There are hundreds of available methods for creating and modifying images. 3. ImageMagick can be called from Python, Perl, Ruby, and other scripting languages, via system calls or via language-specific ImageMagick interface modules (i.e., PerlMagic...
Source: Specified Life - Category: Information Technology Tags: complexity computer science image magick information science simplification simplifying data system calls taming data Source Type: blogs