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title: "Load Image File"
description: "Local-first visual environment for building and running AI workflows. Build agents visually, deploy anywhere, privacy by design."
canonical: https://docs.nodetool.ai/nodes/nodetool/image/loadimagefile
markdown: https://docs.nodetool.ai/nodes/nodetool/image/loadimagefile.md
product: NodeTool
source: https://github.com/nodetool-ai/nodetool/blob/main/docs/nodes/nodetool/image/loadimagefile.md
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# Load Image File

**Type:** `nodetool.image.LoadImageFile`

**Namespace:** `nodetool.image`

## Description

Read an image file from disk.
    image, input, load, file

## Properties

| Property | Type | Description | Default |
|----------|------|-------------|---------|
| path | `str` | Path to the image file to read | `` |

## Outputs

| Output | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| output | `image` |  |

## Related Nodes

Browse other nodes in the [nodetool.image](./) namespace.