This container contains GNU Octave with the latest Bio-Formats package installed.
The following command:
docker run --rm -it openmicroscopy/bio-formats-octave
should start an interactive Octave console from which Bio-Formats can be loaded using:
octave:1> pkg load bioformats
octave:1> bfCheckJavaPath;
For more information see https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/latest/bio-formats/users/octave/index.html