Re: is there an image package that doesn't require Tk ?

Am 27.06.2024 um 17:47 schrieb Andreas Leitgeb:

I'd like it to open a .png file (screenshot from an android
phone) extract five rectangular regions from it, and convert
them to something similar to Tk's [$image data] - e.g. a list
of lists of colors
 For now, I use "image photo" to scrape(simple ocr) some numbers
from it, but it only works with Tk.  In the end I want to do
the processing of the image in the same cron-script that gets
the screenshot from the phone.
 If nothing else, I'd "convert" (from Imagemagick) the png to
something I can easier parse in Tcl.
 

To my knowledge, there is the CRIMP package by Andreas Kupries.
https://core.tcl-lang.org/akupries/crimp/home
And I would love to get the image code a loadable extension of Tk, so it may be loaded without Tk.
I already looked into this. It is far from trivial, as there are many direct interaction between widget code and core image code...
And I would love to remove a lot of old stuff from the image code. We missed this with Tk 9.0...
Any help appreciated...
Thanks,
Harald