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In disease conditions, alterations in the primary components of these fibers, such as type I collagen molecules in bone, tendons, and ligaments, assembly into a disorganized fibers architecture generating a weak and\/or brittle material. Being able to quantitatively assess the fibers orientation and organization in biological tissue may help improve our understanding of their contribution to the tissue and organ mechanical integrity, and assess disease progress and therapy effect. In this work, we present <jats:italic>FiberO<\/jats:italic>, a new open-source available software that automatically quantifies fibers orientation, by performing morphological image openings, and fibers organization within the tissue, by determining and plotting their continuity in groups. <jats:italic>FiberO<\/jats:italic> performance is here evaluated using second harmonic generation microscopy images of mouse bones and tendons as examples of biological fibrous tissues. <jats:italic>FiberO<\/jats:italic> outperformed <jats:italic>Directionality<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>OrientationJ<\/jats:italic>, two open-source plugins available in ImageJ, and <jats:italic>FiberFit<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>CT-FIRE,<\/jats:italic> in the calculation and plotting of fibers orientation in reference images with known fibers orientation. 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