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TIFFCP(1) TIFFCP(1)
NAME
tiffcp - copy (and possibly convert) a TIFF file
SYNOPSIS
tiffcp [ options ] src1.tif ... srcN.tif dst.tif
DESCRIPTION
tiffcp combines one or more files created according to the Tag Image
File Format, Revision 6.0 into a single TIFF file. Because the output
file may be compressed using a different algorithm than the input
files, tiffcp is most often used to convert between different compres-
sion schemes.
By default, tiffcp will copy all the understood tags in a TIFF direc-
tory of an input file to the associated directory in the output file.
tiffcp can be used to reorganize the storage characteristics of data
in a file, but it is explicitly intended to not alter or convert the
image data content in any way.
OPTIONS
-b image
subtract the following monochrome image from all others pro-
cessed. This can be used to remove a noise bias from a set of
images. This bias image is typlically an image of noise the
camera saw with its shutter closed.
-B Force output to be written with Big-Endian byte order. This
option only has an effect when the output file is created or
overwritten and not when it is appended to.
-C Suppress the use of ''strip chopping'' when reading images that
have a single strip/tile of uncompressed data.
-c Specify the compression to use for data written to the output
file: none for no compression, packbits for PackBits compres-
sion, lzw for Lempel-Ziv & Welch compression, jpeg for baseline
JPEG compression, zip for Deflate compression, g3 for CCITT
Group 3 (T.4) compression, and g4 for CCITT Group 4 (T.6) com-
pression. By default tiffcp will compress data according to
the value of the Compression tag found in the source file.
The CCITT Group 3 and Group 4 compression algorithms can only
be used with bilevel data.
Group 3 compression can be specified together with several
T.4-specific options: 1d for 1-dimensional encoding, 2d for
2-dimensional encoding, and fill to force each encoded scanline
to be zero-filled so that the terminating EOL code lies on a
byte boundary. Group 3-specific options are specified by
appending a '':''-separated list to the ''g3'' option; e.g. -c
g3:2d:fill to get 2D-encoded data with byte-aligned EOL codes.
LZW compression can be specified together with a predictor
value. A predictor value of 2 causes each scanline of the out-
put image to undergo horizontal differencing before it is
encoded; a value of 1 forces each scanline to be encoded with-
out differencing. LZW-specific options are specified by
appending a '':''-separated list to the ''lzw'' option; e.g.
-c lzw:2 for LZW compression with horizontal differencing.
-f Specify the bit fill order to use in writing output data. By
default, tiffcp will create a new file with the same fill order
as the original. Specifying -f lsb2msb will force data to be
written with the FillOrder tag set to LSB2MSB, while -f msb2lsb
will force data to be written with the FillOrder tag set to
MSB2LSB.
-l Specify the length of a tile (in pixels). tiffcp attempts to
set the tile dimensions so that no more than 8 kilobytes of
data appear in a tile.
-L Force output to be written with Little-Endian byte order. This
option only has an effect when the output file is created or
overwritten and not when it is appended to.
-M Suppress the use of memory-mapped files when reading images.
-p Specify the planar configuration to use in writing image data
that has one 8-bit sample per pixel. By default, tiffcp will
create a new file with the same planar configuration as the
original. Specifying -p contig will force data to be written
with multi-sample data packed together, while -p separate will
force samples to be written in separate planes.
-r Specify the number of rows (scanlines) in each strip of data
written to the output file. By default (or when value 0 is
specified), tiffcp attempts to set the rows/strip that no more
than 8 kilobytes of data appear in a strip. If you specify spe-
cial value -1 it will results in infinite number of the rows
per strip. The entire image will be the one strip in that case.
-s Force the output file to be written with data organized in
strips (rather than tiles).
-t Force the output file to be written wtih data organized in
tiles (rather than strips). options can be used to force the
resultant image to be written as strips or tiles of data,
respectively.
-w Specify the width of a tile (in pixels). tiffcp attempts to
set the tile dimensions so that no more than 8 kilobytes of
data appear in a tile. tiffcp attempts to set the tile dimen-
sions so that no more than 8 kilobytes of data appear in a
tile.
-,={character}
substitute {character} for ',' in parsing image directory
indices in files. This is necessary if filenames contain com-
mas. Note that ',=' with whitespace immediately following will
disable the special meaning of the ',' entirely. See examples.
EXAMPLES
The following concatenates two files and writes the result using LZW
encoding:
tiffcp -c lzw a.tif b.tif result.tif
To convert a G3 1d-encoded TIFF to a single strip of G4-encoded data
the following might be used:
tiffcp -c g4 -r 10000 g3.tif g4.tif
(1000 is just a number that is larger than the number of rows in the
source file.)
To extract a selected set of images from a multi-image TIFF file, the
file name may be immediately followed by a ',' separated list of image
directory indices. The first image is always in directory 0. Thus,
to copy the 1st and 3rd images of image file "album.tif" to
"result.tif":
tiffcp album.tif,0,2 result.tif
Given file "CCD.tif" whose first image is a noise bias followed by
images which include that bias, subtract the noise from all those
images following it (while decompressing) with the command:
tiffcp -c none -b CCD.tif CCD.tif,1, result.tif
If the file above were named "CCD,X.tif", the "-,=" option would be
required to correctly parse this filename with image numbers, as fol-
lows:
tiffcp -c none -,=% -b CCD,X.tif CCD,X%1%.tif result.tif
SEE ALSO
pal2rgb(1), tiffinfo(1), tiffcmp(1), tiffmedian(1), tiffsplit(1),
libtiff(3)
February 18, 2001 TIFFCP(1)
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