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From: Randy Prakken <randy@ndg.com>
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Gene Bostwick wrote:
> I am attempting to extract and build individual tiffs from a multi-tiff
> file created on a UNISYS scanner with a "proprietary" format.  Having
> read through the TIFF5.0 & 6.0 docs, I remain confused on several
> issues.
> 
> Question - can someone point me to a site or program that would serve as
> a model for me to write a DOS-based program to process the single,
> large, multi-tiff file (80+ images) and build a separate file for each
> tiff?  While I'm wishing, I'd like to do this in a high level language
> such as COBOL.  (I know, I know but that's the requirement).

If you go to http://www.ndg.com/tf1.htm, you will see source code for a
TIFF "tag dumper" called "tiffy".  It is a good model for how to process
IFD's and such.  It can be compiled with 16 bit DOS compilers and we
provided a PC-DOS tiffy.exe there too.  The high level language we use
is called C.  :-)

As part of our SwiftScan product, we have developed a program called
"PostDoc" which does what you want and a _lot_ more.  For example, it
can insert pages from one multi-page TIFF into another and most any
"page at a time" thing you could imagine for TIFF.  This is documented
at http://www.ndg.com/ssm_w.htm#postdoc.exe.  We don't have a separate
price for it now but I have been considering doing so.

Randy

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Randy Prakken
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Northern Development Group, Inc.
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