Third-party plugins

Pillow uses a plugin model which allows users to add their own decoders and encoders to the library, without any changes to the library itself.

Here is a list of PyPI projects that offer additional plugins:

• :pypi:amigainfo: Adds support for Amiga Workbench .info icon files.
• :pypi:amos-abk: AMOS BASIC sprite and image banks.
• :pypi:DjvuRleImagePlugin: Plugin for the DjVu RLE image format as defined in the DjVuLibre docs.
• :pypi:heif-image-plugin: Simple HEIF/HEIC images plugin, based on the pyheif library.
• :pypi:jxlpy: Introduces reading and writing support for JPEG XL.
• :pypi:pillow-degas: Adds reading Atari ST Degas image files.
• :pypi:pillow-heif: Python bindings to libheif for working with HEIF images.
• :pypi:pillow-jpls: Plugin for the JPEG-LS codec, based on the Charls JPEG-LS implementation. Python bindings implemented using pybind11.
• :pypi:pillow-jxl-plugin: Plugin for JPEG-XL, using Rust for bindings.
• :pypi:pillow-mbm: Adds support for KSP's proprietary MBM texture format.
• :pypi:pillow-netpbm: Adds .pam support, and loads images using Netpbm <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm>__'s converter collection.
• :pypi:pillow-svg: Implements basic SVG read support. Supports basic paths, shapes, and text.
• :pypi:raw-pillow-opener: Simple camera raw opener, based on the rawpy library.