espressif/esp32-camera

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2771 stars · 813 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Espressif's official camera driver library for ESP32-series SoCs (ESP32, ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3), supporting a wide range of image sensors like OV2640 and OV5640. It captures frames and provides conversion utilities to common formats such as BMP and JPEG.

Use cases

• capture camera frames on an esp32
• stream jpeg images from an esp32-cam module
• interface an ov2640 sensor with esp-idf
• build an ip camera with esp32
• convert captured frames to bmp or jpeg
• read image sensor data on esp32-s3

When to choose

• you are developing on ESP32, ESP32-S2, or ESP32-S3 with a supported image sensor
• you need the official, well-maintained Espressif driver integrated with ESP-IDF
• you want frame format conversion to BMP or JPEG on-device

When to avoid

• you are using a non-ESP32 microcontroller or a different SoC family
• your sensor is not in the supported list and you cannot write a driver for it
• you need high-resolution capture without PSRAM available

Facets

library · maturity active

image-processing computer-vision embedded sdk graphics embedded-systems iot hardware image-processing embedded iot c cpp esp32 camera-driver image-sensors jpeg bmp esp-idf microcontroller

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