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Subject: Re: does a tiff2XML tool exist? 
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 05:51:26 -0600
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Hey Rob,

I like your idea for this format, but how about XIFF (Xml Image File Format,
pronounced like ziff), rather than TIXML?  Just a thought...

s/KAM


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob van den Tillaart" <rvdt@oce.nl>
To: <tiff@olympiakos.com>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: does a tiff2XML tool exist?


>
> LS,
>
> Some extra info on my request for a tiff2XML tool, it's also a reaction
> on the
> mails I've got sofar.
>
> Let's call the new format to be generated TIXML.
>
> Most important added value of TIXML is that I can merge additional info
> in the TIXML file
> with every image or on file level. Like private tags in TIFF, but now
> more understandable.
>
> I know that TIXML files are larger than TIFF, I guess header info
> increases 10-fold.
> The image could be encoded base 64 so the increase would be approx. 35%
> of the
> original size if I keep compression. On average a factor 2? As the
> compression
> factor of the scan can between 2 and 10(?) it would still mean less data
> than
> an uncompressed TIFF file on average.
>
> At the moment I have no speed requirements. Images must be included
> although
> I do not know how raw (stripes etc) I like them. I know this affects the
> performance a lot. And thinking about it, a TIXML->TIFF is also needed.
>
> For now the bitmaps are 600dpi bitonal A4/A3/letter/legal size, G3/G4
> compressed.
>
> So far I have no tools. Looking at the libtiff tools I understand
> tiffdump is a good
> starting point to build tiff2tixml.
>
> regards,
> rob
>
>
> Rob van den Tillaart wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does someone know of the existance of a TIFF2XML tool? may be commercial
> > or freeware.
> > preferable batch processing (e.g. commandline tool)
> >
> > regards,
> > rob tillaart
> >
> > rvdt@oce.nl
> >
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