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What is a .pgm file?

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PGM (Portable Graymap) is a Netpbm-family format storing single-channel greyscale images as ASCII or raw binary values with a simple text header. It uses no compression and supports 8- or 16-bit gray levels. It is frequently used in image processing and computer vision.

How to use a .pgm file

Use an example PGM to test greyscale parsing, verify intensity output from processing pipelines, or provide a simple input for computer-vision and OCR toolchains.

Convert a .pgm file to another format

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