VTK alternatives and related libraries

Based on the "Image Processing" category

• OpenCV

  10.0 9.8 L1 VTK VS OpenCV

  Open source computer vision. [BSD]

• tesseract-ocr

  9.9 9.6 L1 VTK VS tesseract-ocr

  An OCR engine. [Apache2]

• libvips

  7.8 9.3 L3 VTK VS libvips

  A fast image processing library with low memory needs. [LGPL] website

• OpenImageIO

  6.9 9.0 L1 VTK VS OpenImageIO

  Powerful image and texture wrangling library with support for a wide number of common lossy and RAW formats. [Modified BSD]

• OpenEXR

  6.4 8.6 L1 VTK VS OpenEXR

  Cross-platform library for high dynamic range imaging. [Modified BSDF]

• Magick++

  5.8 4.9 VTK VS Magick++

  ImageMagick program interfaces for C++. [Apache2]

• ITK

  5.7 9.6 L2 VTK VS ITK

  An open-source, cross-platform system for image analysis. [Apache2 from ITK 4.0]

• CImg

  5.6 7.6 VTK VS CImg

  A small, open source, C++ toolkit for image processing. [Own LGPL or GPL]

• Video++

  5.2 6.2 L2 VTK VS Video++

  A C++14 high performance video and image processing library. [MIT]

• GD

  5.2 7.0 L2 VTK VS GD

  GD Graphics Library, famously used in PHP for image loading/manipulation & thumbnail generation. [custom permissive license, requires mention in user docs] website

• VIGRA

  5.0 0.0 L1 VTK VS VIGRA

  A generic C++ computer vision library for image analysis. [MIT X11]

• hiptext

  4.3 1.1 L3 VTK VS hiptext

  Turn images into text better than caca/aalib

• SVG++

  3.7 2.7 L3 VTK VS SVG++

  The most advanced SVG reading library for C++

• GDCM

  3.6 8.7 L1 VTK VS GDCM

  Grassroots DICOM library.

• CxImage

  3.1 0.0 L1 VTK VS CxImage

  An image processing and conversion library to load, save, display, transform BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX, TGA, WMF, WBMP, JBG, J2K images. [zlib]

• Boost.GIL

  2.4 8.8 L3 VTK VS Boost.GIL

  Generic Image Library.

• FreeImage

  2.1 0.0 L2 VTK VS FreeImage

  An open source library that supports popular graphics image formats and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. [GPL2 or GPL3]

• DCMTK

  - - VTK VS DCMTK

  DICOM Toolkit.

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