This software distribution comes with a small collection of
programs for converting non-TIFF format images to TIFF and for
manipulating and interrogating the contents of TIFF images. Several
of these tools are useful in their own right. Many of them however
are more intended to serve as programming examples for using the
TIFF library.
| fax2ps |
Convert a Group 3- or Group 4- compressed TIFF to PostScript
that is significantly more compressed than is generated by
tiff2ps (unless tiff2ps writes PS Level II) |
| fax2tiff |
Convert raw Group 3 or Group 4 facsimile data to TIFF |
| pal2rgb |
Convert a Palette-style image to a full color RGB image by
applying the colormap |
| ppm2tiff |
A quick hack that converts 8-bit PPM format images to TIFF |
| raw2tiff |
Create a TIFF file from raw data |
| rgb2ycbcr |
Convert an RGB, grayscale, or bilevel TIFF image to a YCbCr
TIFF image; it's mainly provided for testing |
| thumbnail |
Copy a bilevel TIFF to one that includes 8-bit greyscale
"thumbnail images" for each page; it is provided as an example of
how one might use the SubIFD tag (and the library su |
TIFF Tools Overview