2012.10.18 02:50 "[Tiff] Surprising Jhove output for TIFF produced by Kyocera 4550 workstation - Well Formed?", by Andrew Roughan

On a whim I had a look at what output JHOVE provides on the TIFF scanner output produced by the Kyocera 4550 workstation.

I was surprised to see the status as well-formed and valid.

JhoveView (Rel. 1.7, 2012-08-12)
 Date: 2012-10-18 13:33:04 EST
 RepresentationInformation: C:\Temp\Kyocera4550Scan.tif
  ReportingModule: BYTESTREAM, Rel. 1.3 (2007-04-10)
  LastModified: 2012-10-16 13:31:32 EST
  Size: 185092
  Format: bytestream
  Status: Well-Formed and valid
  SignatureMatches:
   TIFF-hul
  MIMEtype: application/octet-stream

I was particularly surprised given the JHOVE TIFF module help includes the following "A TIFF file is well-formed if... all IFDs are 16-bit word aligned". But in addition, surely the use of compression code 6 warrants a warning of some kind?

Regards,
Andrew Roughan