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From: bko@netcom.com (Ben Ko)
Subject: Re: Basic TIFF parsing question
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>That's very reasonable, IMO.  If you don't want to learn C just to do
>such a simple thing, you could check the Python scripting language and
>its Python Imaging Library (PIL).  Here's the Python code you need to
>extract the basic necessities from a TIFF file (or the other 20+
>formats that PIL knows about):
>
>	import Image
>
>	im = Image.open("image.tiff")
>
>	print im.mode
>	print im.size
>
>You can access arbitrary TIFF tags as well, if needed, formatted as
>Python data types.  And yes, PIL supports lots of cool stuff for image
>manipulation as well.
>


Intriguing! I'll take a look.

