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raw2tiff - create a TIFF
file from a raw data
raw2tiff [ options ] input.raw output.tif
raw2tiff converts
a raw byte sequence into TIFF.
By default, the TIFF
image is created with
data samples packed (PlanarConfiguration=1), compressed with the PackBits
algorithm (Compression=32773), and with each strip no more than 8 kilobytes.
These characteristics can overridden, or explicitly specified with the
options described below.
- -H <number>
- size of input image file header
in bytes (0 by default). This amount of data just will be skipped from the
start of file while reading.
- -w <number>
- width of input image in pixels (can
be guessed, see
GUESSING THE IMAGE GEOMETRY below).
- -l <number>
- length of
input image in lines(can be guessed, see
GUESSING THE IMAGE GEOMETRY below).
- -b <number>
- number of bands in input image (1 by default).
- -d data_type
- type
of samples in input image, where data_type may be:
bytett 8-bit unsigned integer (default),
shortt 16-bit unsigned integer,
longtt 32-bit unsigned integer,
sbytet 8-bit signed integer,
sshortt 16-bit signed integer,
slongt 32-bit signed integer,
floatt 32-bit IEEE floating point,
doublet 64-bit IEEE floating point,
- -i config
- type of samples interleaving
in input image, where config may be:
pixelt pixel interleaved data (default),
bandtt band interleaved data.
- -p photo
- photometric interpretation (color
space) of the input image, where photo may be:
miniswhite white color represented with 0 value,
minisblack black color represented with 0 value (default),
rgbtt image has RGB color model,
cmyktt image has CMYK (separated) color model,
ycbcrtt image has YCbCr color model,
cielabt image has CIE L*a*b color model,
icclabt image has ICC L*a*b color model,
itulabt image has ITU L*a*b color model,
- -s
- swap bytes fetched from the
input file.
- -L
- input data has LSB2MSB bit order (default).
- -M
- input data has
MSB2LSB bit order.
- -c
- Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image
data: -c none for no compression, -c packbits for the PackBits compression
algorithm (the default), -c jpeg for the baseline JPEG compression algorithm,
-c zip for the Deflate compression algorithm, and -c lzw for Lempel-Ziv & Welch.
- -r <number>
- Write data with a specified number of rows per strip; by default
the number of rows/strip is selected so that each strip is approximately
8 kilobytes.
raw2tiff can guess image width and
height in case one or both of these parameters are not specified. If you
omit one of those parameters, the complementary one will be calculated
based on the file size (taking into account header size, number of bands
and data type). If you omit both parameters, the statistical approach will
be used. Utility will compute correlation coefficient between two lines
at the image center using several appropriate line sizes and the highest
absolute value of the coefficient will indicate the right line size. That
is why you should be cautious with the very large images, because guessing
process may take a while (depending on your system perfomance). Of course,
the utility can’t guess the header size, number of bands and data type,
so it should be specified manually. If you don’t know anything about your
image, just try with the several combinations of those options.
There is
no magic, it is just a mathematical statistics, so it can be wrong in some
cases. But for most ordinary images guessing method will work fine.
pal2rgb(1)
,
tiffinfo(1)
, tiffcp(1)
, tiffmedian(1)
, libtiff(3)
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