 line, thus being forced to use the unavoidable early processing stages, or understand the source code and maintain their own library based on it.</p>
    <p>Thus, the inconveniences of <strong>dcraw</strong> make the developers' community quite small and halt further evolution and improvement of RAW format converters.</p>
    <p>Our project started with the idea to <em>get a library based on dcraw, only better</em>. Today we are well past that initial goal, not in the least because <strong>dcraw</strong>