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2004.11.22 06:32 "Unexpected TIFF output", by Zac Bond

2004.11.22 09:25 "Re: Unexpected TIFF output", by Eric Vergnaud

2004.11.22 06:32 "Unexpected TIFF output", by Zac Bond

I am attempting to write a program that extracts text from an old
document based on the color of the ink.  I am having a lot of trouble
figuring out how to use libTIFF to write my image to a file.   Here
are the results:

Original: http://home.cwru.edu/~zwb2/smallblock.tif
Result:   http://home.cwru.edu/~zwb2/binresult.tif

As you can see, the second image looks like a squashed version of part
of the original, with odd vetical lines.  I don't understand how this
is happening; the contents of my image buffer are correct.  Also, I
notice that the output has only values of 255 and 0, whereas my buffer
used 250 and 10.  Huh?

Here is my code.  I'm guesing I am using TIFFWriteScanline wrong, or
else perhaps I forgot to set an important tag?
(I deleted the errorchecking for this post, but there were no errors
when run)

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	// Open file
	TIFF* infile = TIFFOpen(argv[1], "r");

	// Read in tags
	uint32 rows, columns;
	size_t imagesize;
	int errorval;

	TIFFGetField(infile, TIFFTAG_IMAGELENGTH, &rows);
	TIFFGetField(infile, TIFFTAG_IMAGEWIDTH, &columns);

	// Now we read in the color image using RGBA
	imagesize = rows * columns;
	uint32* raster = (uint32*) _TIFFmalloc(imagesize * sizeof(uint32));
	TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(infile, columns, rows, 									raster,
ORIENTATION_TOPLEFT, 1);

    	// Now create an output file & set fields for an 8-bit grayscale
image
	TIFF* outfile = TIFFOpen("binresult.tif", "w");
	TIFFSetField(outfile, TIFFTAG_IMAGELENGTH, rows);
	TIFFSetField(outfile, TIFFTAG_IMAGEWIDTH, columns);
	TIFFSetField(outfile, TIFFTAG_BITSPERSAMPLE, 8);
	TIFFSetField(outfile, TIFFTAG_COMPRESSION, 1);
	TIFFSetField(outfile, TIFFTAG_FILLORDER, 1);
	TIFFSetField(outfile, TIFFTAG_ORIENTATION, 1);
	TIFFSetField(outfile, TIFFTAG_PHOTOMETRIC, 1);
	TIFFSetField(outfile, TIFFTAG_PLANARCONFIG, 1);
	TIFFSetField(outfile, TIFFTAG_SAMPLESPERPIXEL, 1);

	// Allocate memory the new image
	uint32* binimage = (uint32*) _TIFFmalloc(imagesize * sizeof(uint32));

	for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++)
		for (int c = 0; c < columns; c++)
		{
			// Various logic to threshold the image
			// based on pixel color goes on in here
			if (fill_loc)
				binimage[r * columns + c] = 10;
			else
				binimage[r * columns + c] = 250;
		}

	// Write the new file
	for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++)
          TIFFWriteScanline(outfile, &binimage[r * columns], r);

	// Clean up memory, etc.
}

Thanks to anyone who can help me out.  I'm a bit new to this, and I'm
sure I'm missing something simple.

-Zac Bod