AlgART

AlgART-TIFF: library for TIFF support

AlgART-TIFF is a Java library providing complete read/write support of TIFF files.

Key features:

• You have full control over TIFF-file structure: ability to analyse, read or write separate IFDs.
• You can correctly read/write most variants of TIFF formats, including BigTIFF.
• You can read images with unusual bit depths like 1 bit/pixel (binary) or "strange" precision 24-bit/samples.
• You can read or write any rectangular area of image, either as byte[] arrays or as suitable primitive-type array (short[] for 16 bits/sample, float[] for floating-point etc.).
• You also can read or write separate TIFF tiles (or strips) with/without decoding/encoding data.
• Concept of TiffMap, describing the grid of rectangular tiles, simplifies work with large images.
• You can create large TIFF step-by-step: you start writing new image, then add data tile-per-tile or by a sequence of rectangular fragments, then complete writing this image.
• If you add data by rectangular areas, you may control, which tiles are already ready (filled by data), and to flush them to file; so you can create very large TIFF file without usage of large amoun of RAM.

This library is designed as a powerful alternative to the TIFF support included in the popular SCIFIO library.

Daniel Alievsky

Source code

• GIT repository: AlgART-TIFF on GitHub

Maven

Adding to your Maven module in .pom-file:

    <dependencies>
        ...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.algart</groupId>
            <artifactId>algart-tiff</artifactId>
            <version>last version number</version>
        </dependency>
        ...
    </dependencies>