//load ImageJ %classpath config resolver scijava.public https://maven.scijava.org/content/groups/public %classpath add mvn net.imagej imagej 2.0.0-rc-67 //create ImageJ object ij = new net.imagej.ImageJ() ij.op().help("copy.img") input = ij.scifio().datasetIO().open("http://imagej.net/images/clown.png") ij.notebook().display(input) copyImg = ij.op().create().img(input) //Remember that output comes before input ij.op().copy().img(copyImg,input) ij.notebook().display(copyImg)