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Introduction to pypacs
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pypacs_ is a Python API for programmatically accessing a PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System).

pypacs is built based on pypx_ and can be used to query a PACS, retrieve the metadata information and download the dicom files.

This document will walk you through the installation of pypacs and provides its API usages.


.. _pypacs: https://github.com/ABI-CTT-Group/pypacs
.. _pypx: https://pypi.org/project/pypx/