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1996.11.13 18:35 "Re: Basic TIFF parsing question", by Ben Ko
> That's very reasonable, IMO. If you don't want to learn C just to do
> such a simple thing, you could check the Python scripting language and
> its Python Imaging Library (PIL). Here's the Python code you need to
> extract the basic necessities from a TIFF file (or the other 20+
> formats that PIL knows about):
>
> import Image
>
> im = Image.open("image.tiff")
>
> print im.mode
> print im.size
>
> You can access arbitrary TIFF tags as well, if needed, formatted as
> Python data types. And yes, PIL supports lots of cool stuff for image
> manipulation as well.
>
Intriguing! I'll take a look.