---
name: "qoitopam"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "netpbm"
version: "10.86.51-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/qoitopam"
---

# qoitopam(1)

Convert QOI format (Quite OK Image format) to Netpbm.

## NAME

pamtoqoi - Convert  QOI format (Quite OK Image format) to Netpbm.

## SYNOPSIS

**qoitopam** \[*qoifile*\]

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two hyphens instead of one.  You may separate an option name and its value with white space instead of an equals sign.

## DESCRIPTION

This program is part of **Netpbm**(1) .

**qoitopam** reads a QOI image from standard input and converts it to a Netpbm image written to standard output.

For the QOI specification and details, see the QOI web site ⟨http://qoiformat.org⟩ .

Use [**pamtoqoi**(1)](/pamtoqoi/1.md)  to convert a Netpbm image to QOI format.

Input is from Standard Input if you don't specify the input file *qoifile*.

## OPTIONS

The only options are those common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably **-quiet**, see \
  Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ).

## SEE ALSO

[**pamtoqoi**(1)](/pamtoqoi/1.md) , **pam**(1)

## HISTORY

**qoitopam** was new in Netpbm 10.99 (June 2022).

## DOCUMENT SOURCE

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

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  **http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/qoitopam.html**