---
name: "colmap"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "colmap"
version: "3.10-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/colmap"
---

# colmap(1)

Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo

## NAME

colmap - Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo

## SYNOPSIS

**colmap** \[command\] \[options\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **colmap** command.

COLMAP is a general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface. It offers a wide range of features for reconstruction of ordered and unordered image collections.

## OPTIONS

This program offers a graphical and command-line interface. Each command offers summary of all available options.

- **help \[ -h, --help \]**

  Show summary of all options.

- **gui**

  Start graphical interface.

- **gui -h \[ --help \]**

  Show summary of graphical interface options.

- **feature\_extractor -h \[ --help \]**

  Show summary of feature extractor options.

- **feature\_extractor --image\_path IMAGES --database\_path DATABASE**

  Extract features for images in the given folder and store them in the database.\

- **...**

  ## ONLINE DOCUMENTATION

The program is documented at https://colmap.github.io/