.. _related_projects:

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Related Projects
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Other viewers for HDF5 files are available, including

General
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* `hdfview <https://www.hdfgroup.org/download-hdfview/>`_, from the `HDF5 Group <https://www.hdfgroup.org/>`_, a more complex tool in Java which also has capabilities for creating and editing HDF5 files.

Python based
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* `argos <https://github.com/titusjan/argos>`_, Python/Qt gui with advanced capabilites for viewing/exploring scientific data in various formats including HDF5. Plugin architecture allows extension to other data formats.
* `broh5 <https://github.com/nghia-vo/broh5>`_, a browser-based HDF5 viewer written in Python with capabilites for viewing the structure of files and showing (slices of) datasets as images, plots and tables.
* `hdf5-viewer <https://github.com/loenard97/hdf5-viewer>`_, a Python-based hdf5 viewer with capability to view datasets as graphs or text and to export data.
* `HDF compass <https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf-compass>`_, a Python-based HDF5 viewer from the `HDF5 Group <https://www.hdfgroup.org/>`_, designed to be simple to use with a plugin system allowing extension to new formats. This project does not appear to be under active development and may currently not support Python3.

Jupyter notebook based
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* `jupyterlab-h5web <https://github.com/silx-kit/jupyterlab-h5web>`_, view HDF5 files in a jupyterlab widget as 1D, 2D, or 3D or scalar plots. Also supports the Nexus format.
* `hdf5widget <https://github.com/m-rossi/hdf5widget>`_, a widget for viewing HDF5 files using ipywidgets in Jupyter Notebooks.