specIO (spectra Input/Ouput) is a python library for reading data files from number of spectrometer manufacturers including ASD, Spectral Evolution, Spectral Vista Corp and Ocean Optics. This library reads in a file or folder and parses all the data into a pandas dataframe. In addition to the actual spectrum it also stores associated metadata for each file including battery voltage, integration, gain and offset much more!!! Metadata are especially useful for diagnosing data quality issues.

specIO primarily for reading files but contains a few processing options like jump correction for the ASD and spectrum interpolation. Once the spectra are in a dataframe its easy to use packages like scipy and scikit-learn for data processing and analysis.

- pandas
- scipy
- numpy