2008.01.21 19:38 "[Tiff] How to clip an image with LibTiff", by
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2008.01.25 09:25 "Re: [Tiff] Tiffcrop and tiff2pdf", by beppe costagliola
Hi Richard,
thanks for your suggestions.
I've tried in both ways.
-m 1200,100,1804,876 gives a cropped image (no problem in calculating the -m values at runtime, because we already do this)
-m 1200,100 -X 1500 -Y 500 produces a distorted image with a size double of the original!
I will keep on trying the first option.
At present we use Imagemagick (convert -crop) but because it runs on a iSeries platform the command is executed via a rs/6000 interpreter.
While I can run tifflib with their tools (including tiffcrop) in C native mode.
Note that we have to run this command more than 150,000 times per day and the performance is a real issue.
PS. Do you know of a barcode reader available in open source?
Thanks.
Giuseppe.
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--- Richard Nolde <nrichard8@qwest.net> ha scritto:
1. Re: TIffcrop might be called tiffextract (Andy Cave)
>> Please, note that tiffcrop is a part of libtiff for quite a some time >> (and it is part of stable branch of libtiff) and probably already is
>> being used in scripts or called from programs, so it is not harmless to >> change its name. But everything is possible with a good reason, of
>> course.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andrey> Andrey's point is well taken. I originally proposed that the code that > is now tiffcrop should replace tiffcp since it is a superset of the
> tiffcp utiltity, but Frank Warmerdam rightly noted that tiffcp was far > to important to take a change on breaking and certainly no
> functionality should be removed. I started exploring with a simple > crop option and it grew from there. I will try to check out the CVS
> version soon as I think there may be half a dozen more options that I > have added since the 3.8.2 release. A quick check of my source shows
> options for breaking pages into X columns by Y rows, or various Page > sizes, eg Letter, Legal, etc (which are useful for document processing
> but not meaningful for abstract images unless you just happen to want > to print a huge image on sheets of a given size), output orientations
> of portrait, landscape, auto, ouput margins added to pages rather than > subtracted from the original, and the ability to specify new X and Y
> resolution tags. These were not in the original release so I will have > to see if they made it into CVS before the 3.9.0 branch. One warning
> to users of the old version. In order to accomodate the new flags,
> the case of the old flags has changed in some cases so you will want > to check your scripts for compatability before upgrading.
> Anyone is free to provide a symlink with a more appropriate name for > their particular installation. Tiffcrop it shall remain.
>
> 3. How to clip an image with Tiffcrop (beppe costagliola)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------> There are actually two ways to do this. First you must specify your > units as pixels with the -U px option. Second specify your reference
> edge for the measurements -E top. Third, specify the margins you want > to subtract (clip/crop/remove) from the original that will not be
> copied to the new image. The margins MUST be specified in the > following order and separate only by commas, top, left, bottom, right.
> -m 1200,100,1804,876. This should leave an opening 1500 x 500 between > the margins but the right and bottom margins are rather a pain to
> compute and will cause problems if your images vary in size. You can > use the flags for a fixed size region, -X 1500 -Y 500 with only the
> first two margins and tiffcrop will compute the proper region and > ignore anything to the right and below the selected region if you only
> need to select a single region from each image.
> Note that This wou