TIFF Java
Tagged Image File Format Lib
The TIFF Library was developed at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in collaboration with BIT Systems. The government has "unlimited rights" and is releasing this software to increase the impact of government investments by providing developers with the opportunity to take things in new directions. The software use, modification, and distribution rights are stipulated within the MIT license.
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About
TIFF is a Java library for reading and writing Tagged Image File Format files. It was primarily created to provide license friendly TIFF functionality to Android applications. Implementation is based on the TIFF specification and this JavaScript implementation: https://github.com/constantinius/geotiff.js
Usage
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Read
//File input = ...
//InputStream input = ...
//byte[] input = ...
//ByteReader input = ...
TIFFImage tiffImage = TiffReader.readTiff(input);
List<FileDirectory> directories = tiffImage.getFileDirectories();
FileDirectory directory = directories.get(0);
Rasters rasters = directory.readRasters();Write
int width = 256;
int height = 256;
int samplesPerPixel = 1;
FieldType fieldType = FieldType.FLOAT;
int bitsPerSample = fieldType.getBits();
Rasters rasters = new Rasters(width, height, samplesPerPixel,
fieldType);
int rowsPerStrip = rasters.calculateRowsPerStrip(
TiffConstants.PLANAR_CONFIGURATION_CHUNKY);
FileDirectory directory = new FileDirectory();
directory.setImageWidth(width);
directory.setImageHeight(height);
directory.setBitsPerSample(bitsPerSample);
directory.setCompression(TiffConstants.COMPRESSION_NO);
directory.setPhotometricInterpretation(
TiffConstants.PHOTOMETRIC_INTERPRETATION_BLACK_IS_ZERO);
directory.setSamplesPerPixel(samplesPerPixel);
directory.setRowsPerStrip(rowsPerStrip);
directory.setPlanarConfiguration(
TiffConstants.PLANAR_CONFIGURATION_CHUNKY);
directory.setSampleFormat(TiffConstants.SAMPLE_FORMAT_FLOAT);
directory.setWriteRasters(rasters);
for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) {
float pixelValue = 1.0f; // any pixel value
rasters.setFirstPixelSample(x, y, pixelValue);
}
}
TIFFImage tiffImage = new TIFFImage();
tiffImage.add(directory);
byte[] bytes = TiffWriter.writeTiffToBytes(tiffImage);
// or
// File file = ...
// TiffWriter.writeTiff(file, tiffImage);Installation
Pull from the Maven Central Repository (JAR, POM, Source, Javadoc)
<dependency>
<groupId>mil.nga</groupId>
<artifactId>tiff</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>
Build
Build this repository using Eclipse and/or Maven:
mvn clean install