Read image saved in binary file in Matlab

Hello,
I save images in binary file, in one file can be thousands of images, and I would like to read it in Matlab or in some other software.
So I would like to know if it's posssible and if so I would like to know what exactly I save, when I save image, and how image structure look like.
Thanks Eva

Hi Eva,
I have little knowledge of IMAQ, so I don't know your data type... sorry.
But in general you read the data in MatLAB. You save the image (only 1) 100 times in the same file. Each image is prepended by a I32 with the total byte count of the image. So that is one pointer for you.
What you could do is convert your IMAQ image into a LV picture control (this must be possible) and then convert it into a U32 2D-dbl and read this with Matlab.
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