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Library for reading OriginLab OPJ project files. Version 3.0.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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brew install liborigin

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overview

Package summary

Library for reading OriginLab OPJ project files

Commands and aliases

  • opj2dat

history

Project history and usage

liborigin is a C++ library and command-line utility package for reading OriginLab OPJ project files. It helps open-source scientific tools extract data from a proprietary scientific graphing and analysis file format.

Project history

The SourceForge project is registered on 2005-09-02 and describes liborigin as a library for reading OriginLab OPJ project files. The 3.0 release README says the standalone code is based on SourceForge liborigin, SciDAVis liborigin, and the older liborigin2 codebase.

The 3.0 README lists Stefan Gerlach, Miquel Garriga, Knut Franke, Ion Vasilief, Alex Kargovsky, and Russell Standish among the authors and contributors. It documents a CMake build, shared and static libraries, development headers, pkg-config metadata, and the opj2dat extractor.

Adoption history

liborigin is adopted by niche scientific-data workflows that need to read Origin project files without running Origin on Windows. Its value is highest for open-source plotting, analysis, and conversion tools that need to import legacy OPJ data.

The SourceForge page identifies the intended audience as education and science/research and the user interface as console/terminal, matching its role as a conversion and library package rather than a full graphical application.

How it is used

Developers link liborigin to parse OPJ files and extract workbook-style data. The included opj2dat command extracts data tables from an Origin project file into ASCII .dat files.

The 3.0 README says liborigin supports importing OPJ projects from version 3.5 through Origin 2022b, making the package useful for archival and migration tasks around old laboratory and analysis data.

Why package nerds care

liborigin is package-nerd significant because it is one of those tiny compatibility libraries that keeps scientific data accessible after it has been saved in a proprietary desktop application's binary format.

Its significance is narrower than major data libraries, but for users holding old .opj files, the package can be the difference between scriptable extraction and manual export through proprietary software.

Timeline

  • 2005: SourceForge project page records liborigin registration on 2005-09-02.
  • 2018: SourceForge 3.0 directory records liborigin 3.0.0 on 2018-10-06.
  • 2021: SourceForge 3.0 directory records liborigin 3.0.1 on 2021-05-11.
  • 2023: SourceForge 3.0 directory records liborigin 3.0.2 on 2023-07-28.
  • 2024: SourceForge 3.0 directory records liborigin 3.0.3 on 2024-07-03.

Related projects

  • Origin and OriginPro from OriginLab are the proprietary applications whose OPJ project files liborigin reads.
  • SciDAVis is related because the 3.0 README says the standalone library is based in part on SciDAVis liborigin code.
  • Ropj and openopj are named by the 3.0 README as related projects.

security posture

Risk level: green

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • library-like package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:library-like

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 10 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
opj2datcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version3.0.3
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:liborigin
Version3.0.3
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/liborigin
Homepagehttps://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/
Repositoryhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin
Upstream docshttps://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/liborigin/liborigin/3.0/liborigin-3.0.3.tar.gz
Build dependenciescmake
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameliborigin
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

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dnf95%

liborigin 3.0.3-6.fc44

Library for reading OriginLab OPJ project files

https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/

sudo dnf install liborigin
  • License: GPL-3.0-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: liborigin
  • 5 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liborigin
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: liborigin from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

liborigin-devel 3.0.3-6.fc44

Development files for liborigin

https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/

sudo dnf install liborigin-devel
  • License: GPL-3.0-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: liborigin
  • 3 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liborigin
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: liborigin-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

liborigin-doc 3.0.3-6.fc44

Documentation for liborigin

https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/

sudo dnf install liborigin-doc
  • License: GPL-3.0-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: liborigin
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liborigin
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: liborigin-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

liborigin 3.0.3-2

A library for reading OriginLab OPJ project files

https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/

sudo pacman -S liborigin
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 3 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liborigin
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: liborigin from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

liborigin-devel 3.0.3-1.3

Libraries and header files for liborigin

https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/

sudo zypper install liborigin-devel
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: liborigin
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liborigin
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: liborigin-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

liborigin-doc 3.0.3-1.3

Documentation for liborigin

https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/

sudo zypper install liborigin-doc
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Category: Documentation/Other
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: liborigin
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liborigin
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: liborigin-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

liborigin-tools 3.0.3-1.3

Converter for OriginLab OPJ project files

https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/

sudo zypper install liborigin-tools
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Category: Productivity/Scientific/Other
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: liborigin
  • 5 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liborigin
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: liborigin-tools from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

liborigin3 3.0.3-1.3

A library for reading OriginLab OPJ project files

https://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/

sudo zypper install liborigin3
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Category: System/Libraries
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: liborigin
  • 5 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liborigin
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: liborigin3 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

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