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TIFF
TIFF
(Tagged Image File Format) is one of the most popular and flexible
of the current public domain raster file formats. TIFF is designed
for raster data interchange. TIFF's main strengths are a highly
flexible and platform-independent format that is supported by
numerous image-processing applications. Since developers of
printers, scanners and monitors designed it, it has a a rich space
of information elements for colorimetry calibration, gamut tables,
etc. Such information is also very useful for remote sensing and
multi-spectral applications.
Another powerful feature of TIFF is the ability to break an image
into tiles rather than scan lines. This allows for efficient access
to very large images which have been compressed.
TIFF files do not have one method of storing image data, the
following TIFF
compression types are currently supported:
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CCITT Group 3
1D
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CCITT Group 3
1D with no EOLs
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CCITT Group 3
2D
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CCITT Group 4
2D
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Uncompressed
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JPEG
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LZW
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Pack Bits
TIFF supports
the following
bits per pixel: 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 24.
The TIFF file format supports either monochrome or color (using JPEG
compression).
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