document updated 18 years ago, on May 31, 2007

obviously there's perl's Image::Magick
convert can convert to/from RGB 3-byte-per-pixel "raw" format, and it can read/write STDOUT/STDIN... this can be used to make a quick perl routine that can save/load an image into an internal array, making it easier to do without a full API. See here for an example of my routines.