The Generic Image Decoder (GID) is a low-level 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, …

Currently supported formats are: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PNM (PBM, PGM, PPM), QOI, TGA

Animations (GIF, PNG) are supported.

Some features:

• Fast! Up to 2.8 times faster than ImageMagick.
• Task safe
• Endian-neutral
• Multi-platform, but native code build
• Standalone (no dependency on other libraires, bindings, etc.; no extra component needed for running)
• Unconditionally portable code: OS-, CPU-, compiler- independent code (*).
• Pure Ada 2012: this package can be used in projects in Ada 2012 and later versions of the Ada language
• Tests, demos and tools included.
• Free, open-source

(*) within limits of compiler’s provided integer types and target architecture capacity.