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dcraw

A Linux Program for Decoding Raw Digital Image Files

Homepage Version(s): 9.28

dcraw requires an environment module

In order to use dcraw, you must first load the appropriate environment module: 

module load gnu

DCRAW is a program, written in C, which takes in raw digital image files (not converted to another lossy format), and decodes them for processing.

Using DCRAW on the HPC#

In order to run the program you first must load the gnu module with the command module load gnu. Then run dcraw from the command line with the options appropriate for your intended application. Use the format:

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$ dcraw -OPTIONS FILE

-OPTIONS is the list of options appropriate for your application and FILE is the name of your file.

To see a quick reference of the available options, type the command dcraw without any options or arguments. More detailed usage information is available on the vendor website.