David Guest wrote: > Dear Digerati > > I have an increasing number of large raw tiff images (mostly hand > scrawled discharge summaries) that are accessed through the Windows > picture viewer. They are housed on a samba share and are starting to > chew up significant disc space. I would like to shrink them, preferably > with a command line tool. > > I note tiffcp (http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/tiffcp.1.html) > supports compression but would appreciate advice about the best way to > proceed to get a reduced image that is still visible in Windows.
David, Given that you are a Pythonista, I would recommend that you have a look at PIL (Python Imaging Library) - a very mature and capable library written and maintained by Frederick Lundh of Secret Labs AB in chilly Sweden - see http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Compressing an existing image is no harder than: Import Image im = Image.open("/home/dguest/image.tif") im.save("/home/dguest/image.png") However PIL has methods to do image manipulation as well, such as edge detection and contrast enhancement, and even de-speckling I think. You can even make artistic collages of all those discharge summaries and specialist reports if you like. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
