Generic Image Decoder

The Generic Image Decoder (GID) is an Ada package for decoding a broad variety of image formats, from any data stream, to any kind of medium, be it an in-memory bitmap, a GUI object, some other stream, floating-point data for scientific calculations, a browser element, a device,... Animations are supported.

Some features:

Standalone (no dependency on other libraires, bindings,...)

Unconditionally portable code: OS-, CPU-, compiler- independent code.

Multi-platform, but native code build

Task safe

Endian-neutral

Free, open-source

pure Ada 95 (compiled by Ada 95, Ada 2005, and later compilers)

Some possible applications:

image processing (interactive or not)
image analysis, text recognition
a drawing program
a web browser
use of images as data for simulations
thumbnail generation for a file manager

Currently supported formats are: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TGA

Download:

Download the package from the SourceForge project page.

An example of output, with alpha transparency:

Contact:

Any sponsoring is welcome... (can be a beer's price!)

Visit also the project on SourceForge!

Some Ada compilers

GNAT Professional (non-free support)

GNAT Public version, free, full sources

ObjectAda (Aonix) Ada compiler

ObjectAda Special Edition: free, limited version

HP

IBM

Janus (RR Software)

AdaMagic (SofCheck)

ICC

GID - a graphic decoder in the Ada programming language