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+README for IM
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+  IM is a toolkit for Digital Imaging. IM is based on 4 concepts: Image Representation, Storage, Processing and Capture. The main goal of the library is to provide a simple API and abstraction of images for scientific applications.
+  The most popular file formats are supported: TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF and AVI. Image representation includes scientific data types. About a hundred Image Processing operations are available.
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+  Build instructions and usage are available in the IM documentation.
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+  For complete information, visit IM's web site at http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/im
+  or access its documentation in the HTML folder.
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+(end of README)