Problems reading tif files

[gujax]

Thanks Christian,
Here is the info:
TIFF Directory at offset 0x8 (8)
  Subfile Type: (0 = 0x0)
  Image Width: 640 Image Length: 480
  Bits/Sample: 32
  Sample Format: IEEE floating point
  Compression Scheme: None
  Photometric Interpretation: min-is-black
  Samples/Pixel: 1
  Rows/Strip: 480
  Planar Configuration: single image plane
  ImageDescription: ImageJ=1.44f
min=0.0
max=255.0

How can I use freeimage. Can I incorporate it with python? Any idea
what do ImageJ or Matlab use. Don't they have a robust imaging
toolbox. Unfortunately, I cannot afford Matlab and I am not good at
Java programing to be able to implement ImageJ with numerical analysis
software.

Thanks much,
gujax



On Sep 26, 9:19 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Am 27.09.2010 02:31, schrieb gujax:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have read several related e-mails dating back as far as 2006. I am
> > quite confused whether PIL can open tif images. Some posts seem to say
> > there isn't yet any support for PIL while there are few posts where
> > PIL has been able to open tif images. So I guess, I have to ask this
> > probably trivial question again. I am just learning python and PIL. I
> > have tiff images which are 8 bit and 16 bit gray scale images. I
> > cannot open them. Here are the errors that I encounter.
>
> PIL only supports a limited subset of TIFF files. Several compression
> algorithms like G3 and G4 fax compression are not supported yet. PIL may
> have a problem with partly broken TIFF files, too.
>
> > I have no idea why this happens.
> > I will appreciate a resolution. The file opens with ImageJ and
> > ImageMagick. It is a 8-bit RGB file. I have associated default viewer
> > to be ImageMagick. I am on Lucid Linux, and other programs such as F-
> > spot and Gimp cannot open those files either.
> > I don't yet know how to attach image files to the post so please bear
> > with me till I figure that out.
>


> Can you please post the output of tiffinfo for the specific file? It may
> give me a hint what's going wrong.
>
> There aren't a lot of good alternatives for image processing in Python.
> I've evaluated most of them and decided to write my own one for my
> employer. It's a Cython based library around FreeImage [1] and LCMS2 [2]
> and works very well. So far we have processed several million TIFF files
> with more than 100 TB of raw data smoothly. I've permission to release
> the software as open source but haven't found time to do a proper release.
>
> Christian Heimes
>
> [1]http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/
> [2]http://www.littlecms.com/