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TIFFFILE(1) User Commands TIFFFILE(1)

NAME

tifffile - Read image and meta-data from TIFF, STK, LSM, OME-TIFF, and FluoView files.

SYNOPSIS

tifffile [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

Only a subset of the TIFF specification is supported, mainly uncompressed and losslessly compressed 1-32 bit integer as well as 32 and 64-bit float images, which are commonly used in scientific imaging.

TIFF, the Tagged Image File Format, is under the control of Adobe Systems. STK and LSM are TIFF with custom extensions used by MetaMorph respectively Carl Zeiss MicroImaging. Currently only primary info records are read for STK, FluoView, and NIH image formats.

Display image data in TIFF files.

OPTIONS

--version
show program's version number and exit
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-p PAGE, --page=PAGE
display single page
-s SERIES, --series=SERIES
display series of pages of same shape
--nomultifile
don't read OME series from multiple files
--noplot
don't display images
--interpol=INTERPOL
image interpolation method
--dpi=DPI
set plot resolution
--debug
raise exception on failures
--test
try read all images in path
--doctest
runs the docstring examples

-v, --verbose

-q, --quiet

AUTHOR

Christoph Gohlke <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine

This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used by others.

SEE ALSO

tiffdump(1), tiffinfo(1).
September 2014 tifffile 2014.08.24