Using ImageJ on Chromebooks

[Becky Sims]

Good afternoon,

I work with classroom teachers to develop science curriculum and a few of the labs we use involve the use of ImageJ. Many teachers have been receiving 1:1 Chromebooks  for their students and computer labs are being phased out. ImageJ is not compatible with the Chromebook OS, without some rather extensive work-arounds that involve installing Linux, or virtual desktops. Many school districts have tight restrictions on what can be downloaded to their computers and are unable to use these workarounds.

Has anyone had success using ImageJ on a chromebook in a relatively simple manner? Is there any possibility of producing a compatible version of the software? Does anyone know of possible alternative software, or ideally a web-based program that could be used instead? I’m interested in any possible solutions.
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Becky Sims
Teaching Laboratory Coordinator
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
533 Tower Road, Ithaca, NY 14853
607-254-2343

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[ctrueden]

Hi Becky,

ImageJ is written in Java, and you cannot run Java on Chromebook OS [1].

So I would be pretty amazed if anyone has gotten ImageJ to work on a
Chromebook without installing Linux.

In the future, if someone creates a web client which communicates with
ImageJ on a remote server, this would be usable from a Chromebook. There
are various ways it could work—maybe just as a "thin client" like how
Photoshop on Chromebook works [2]. But no such thing exists yet.

I looked around for a web-based image editing tool using HTML5, and found
one called Picozu [3], but it is more geared toward drawing and photo
editing, rather than scientific image processing.

Regards,
Curtis

[1] https://www.starryhope.com/chromebooks/faq/chromebook-java/
[2]
http://www.cnet.com/news/checking-out-photoshop-for-chromebooks-network-computing-revived/
[3] https://www.picozu.com/editor/

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Becky Sims <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> I work with classroom teachers to develop science curriculum and a few of
> the labs we use involve the use of ImageJ. Many teachers have been
> receiving 1:1 Chromebooks  for their students and computer labs are being
> phased out. ImageJ is not compatible with the Chromebook OS, without some
> rather extensive work-arounds that involve installing Linux, or virtual
> desktops. Many school districts have tight restrictions on what can be
> downloaded to their computers and are unable to use these workarounds.
>
> Has anyone had success using ImageJ on a chromebook in a relatively simple
> manner? Is there any possibility of producing a compatible version of the
> software? Does anyone know of possible alternative software, or ideally a
> web-based program that could be used instead? I’m interested in any
> possible solutions.
> --
> Becky Sims
> Teaching Laboratory Coordinator
> Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
> 533 Tower Road, Ithaca, NY 14853
> 607-254-2343
>
> --
> ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html
>

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