# Uploading/Reading .gif image file to Paraview
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 21, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668 "2023-03-21T09:52:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@kokebdese](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kokebdese)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668/1 "2023-03-21T09:52:52Z")
Hi all,
I want to upload and process the .gif formatted image.
I think a ParaView has no a .gif reader, is there any mechanism to read for it?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@patchett2002](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/patchett2002)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 10:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668/2 "2023-03-21T10:15:13Z")
Hi, I would think you could use something like [ImageMagick](https://imagemagick.org/index.php) to convert to a png? Then load into ParaView.
OR
If you need to do it a lot or quickly, perhaps a python programmable source, I presume there are gif manipulation libraries in python that would allow you to get numpy arrays from gifs that can be converted to vtk using vtk.util.numpy\_support
OR
make a compelling argument to the ParaView community that they should support gifs as a data format.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668/3 "2023-03-21T10:17:07Z")
OR
Implement a vtkGIFReader, add it to VTK and expose it in ParaView š
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### Author:  [@kokebdese](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kokebdese)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668/4 "2023-03-21T21:08:26Z")
I need to transfer the 3D image to the ParaView rather than 2D. The .PNG gives me the 2D.
Let me improve my questionā¦now I need to transfer the .fig (matlab figure ) data to the ParaView. How can I do that?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2023, 9:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668/5 "2023-03-22T09:54:39Z")
There is no .mat or .fig read in VTK/ParaView. One have to study the format and add such a reader.
> **[What are the features of MATLAB fig-format?](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/6459-what-are-the-features-of-matlab-fig-format)**
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> One can store MATLAB Figure (Editor) content as special \*.fig (of course, we can export jpg-files and others). But what is fig-format.
> As I suppose, this is XML-like format, but in binary form. Is...
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### Author:  [@kokebdese](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kokebdese)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2023, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668/6 "2023-03-22T10:08:35Z")
@Mathieuā¦Ohhhā¦the developers need to add such important reader. Even I need it for my work.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2023, 10:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668/7 "2023-03-22T10:31:36Z")
Of course, you may want to reach out to Kitware then: [https://www.kitware.eu/](https://www.kitware.eu/)
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### Author:  [@kokebdese](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kokebdese)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668/8 "2023-03-22T13:20:52Z")
Thanks, I did and waiting for their humble response.
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### Author:  [@Sciencegeek](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Sciencegeek)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/uploading-reading-gif-image-file-to-paraview/11668/9 "2023-03-26T16:12:19Z")
Hello Kokeb Dese,
The free software āImageJ or Fijiā have the formatting to take anything, including GIF format and convert it to anything else. It is free and you will find it useful in many other ways also.
Just saying.
Bob Smith