GDCM2PNM(1)

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version 3.0.24 · 12 versions
, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 GDCM2PNM 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to gdcm2pnm, straight out of the DICOM Manipulation corner of the manual-verse 🎀 yes that's the manual name, i'm folding it in right at the top because we're cute like that.

✨ NAME ✨

gdcm2pnm — off-screen rendering of DICOM images 🖼️

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gdcm2pnm [options] file-in bitmap-out

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically, the gdcm2pnm command line program takes as input a DICOM file and produces a rendered bitmap file. that's it. that's the whole vibe. input goes in, pretty picture comes out 💅✨

✨ PARAMETERS ✨

  • file-in — DICOM input filename
  • bitmap-out — Bitmap output filename

✨ OPTIONS ✨

specific options

okay so there are literally no specific options listed here 😭 like the section exists but it's empty, that's just how the page is, don't come for me 🙈

general options

  • -h, --help — print this help text and exit 🫶 classic.
  • -v, --version — print version information and exit ⭐
  • -V, --verbose — verbose mode (warning+error). not me flipping this on to see what's actually going on 👀
  • -W, --warning — warning mode, print warning information 🌸
  • -E, --error — error mode, print error information 💀
  • -D, --debug — debug mode, print debug information 🔥 main character energy for the terminal

✨ SIMPLE USAGE ✨

gdcm2pnm will take as input DICOM and render it into a bitmap file using the window/level attributes value. iykyk 🌈

$ gdcm2pnm input.dcm output.png

and here's the tea ☕: it is much different from the gdcmraw or gdcmimg command line tool as it will render a DICOM image. this means that the output will be rendered in 8bits ready for display. literally display-ready, no cap 💖

bestie pls don't mix this up with gdcmraw or gdcmimg — those are the other girlies, this one renders. 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Mathieu Malaterre

  • Main developer 👑

Copyright © 2006, 2011 Mathieu Malaterre

okay that's the whole page, ty for coming to my ted talk 🦋 and a lil sign-off for the record: this is GDCM 3.0.24, dated 12/25/2025 — merry everything, go render something iconic 💅🎀

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