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<h1 align="center">RAW2TIFF</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
<a href="#GUESSING THE IMAGE GEOMETRY">GUESSING THE IMAGE GEOMETRY</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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<h2>NAME
<a name="NAME"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">raw2tiff
− create a <small>TIFF</small> file from a raw
data</p>
<h2>SYNOPSIS
<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>raw2tiff</b>
[ <i>options</i> ] <i>input.raw output.tif</i></p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>raw2tiff</i>
converts a raw byte sequence into <small>TIFF.</small> By
default, the <small>TIFF</small> image is created with data
samples packed (<i>PlanarConfiguration</i>=1), compressed
with the PackBits algorithm (<i>Compression</i>=32773), and
with each strip no more than 8 kilobytes. These
characteristics can overridden, or explicitly specified with
the options described below.</p>
<h2>OPTIONS
<a name="OPTIONS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>−H</b>
<i>number</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">size of input image file header
in bytes (0 by default). This amount of data just will be
skipped from the start of file while reading.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−w</b>
<i>number</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">width of input image in pixels
(can be guessed, see <b><small>GUESSING THE IMAGE
GEOMETRY</small></b> below).</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−l</b>
<i>number</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">length of input image in lines
(can be guessed, see <b><small>GUESSING THE IMAGE
GEOMETRY</small></b> below).</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−b</b>
<i>number</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">number of bands in input image
(1 by default).</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−d</b>
<i>data_type</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">type of samples in input image,
where <i>data_type</i> may be:</p>
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<td width="-10%"></td>
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<p><b>byte</b></p></td></tr>
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<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p>8-bit unsigned integer (default),</p></td></tr>
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<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p><b>short</b></p></td></tr>
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<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p>16-bit unsigned integer,</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p><b>long</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p>32-bit unsigned integer,</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p><b>sbyte</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p>8-bit signed integer,</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p><b>sshort</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p>16-bit signed integer,</p></td></tr>
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<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p><b>slong</b></p></td></tr>
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<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
<td width="88%">
<p>32-bit signed integer,</p></td></tr>
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<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
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<p><b>float</b></p></td></tr>
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<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
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<p>32-bit IEEE floating point,</p></td></tr>
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<td width="-10%"></td>
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<p><b>double</b></p></td></tr>
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<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-10%"></td>
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<p>64-bit IEEE floating point.</p></td></tr>
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<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−i</b>
<i>config</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">type of samples interleaving in
input image, where <i>config</i> may be:</p>
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<td width="-11%"></td>
<td width="89%">
<p><b>pixel</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-11%"></td>
<td width="89%">
<p>pixel interleaved data (default),</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-11%"></td>
<td width="89%">
<p><b>band</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-11%"></td>
<td width="89%">
<p>band interleaved data.</p></td></tr>
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<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−p</b>
<i>photo</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">photometric interpretation
(color space) of the input image, where <i>photo</i> may
be:</p>
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<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p><b>miniswhite</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p>white color represented with 0 value,</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p><b>minisblack</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p>black color represented with 0 value (default),</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p><b>rgb</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p>image has RGB color model,</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p><b>cmyk</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p>image has CMYK (separated) color model,</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p><b>ycbcr</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p>image has YCbCr color model,</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p><b>cielab</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p>image has CIE L*a*b color model,</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p><b>icclab</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p>image has ICC L*a*b color model,</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p><b>itulab</b></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="22%"></td>
<td width="-4%"></td>
<td width="82%">
<p>image has ITU L*a*b color model.</p></td></tr>
</table>
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cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
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<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="3%">
<p><b>−s</b></p></td>
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>swap bytes fetched from the input file.</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="3%">
<p><b>−L</b></p></td>
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>input data has LSB2MSB bit order (default).</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="3%">
<p><b>−M</b></p></td>
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>input data has MSB2LSB bit order.</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="3%">
<p><b>−c</b></p></td>
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Specify a compression scheme to use when writing image
data: <b>−c none</b> for no compression, <b>−c
packbits</b> for the PackBits compression algorithm (the
default), <b>−c jpeg</b> for the baseline JPEG
compression algorithm, <b>−c zip</b> for the Deflate
compression algorithm, and <b>−c lzw</b> for
Lempel-Ziv & Welch.</p></td></tr>
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<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−r</b>
<i>number</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">Write data with a specified
number of rows per strip; by default the number of
rows/strip is selected so that each strip is approximately 8
kilobytes.</p>
<h2>GUESSING THE IMAGE GEOMETRY
<a name="GUESSING THE IMAGE GEOMETRY"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>raw2tiff</i>
can guess image width and height in case one or both of
these parameters are not specified. If you omit one of those
parameters, the complementary one will be calculated based
on the file size (taking into account header size, number of
bands and data type). If you omit both parameters, the
statistical approach will be used. Utility will compute
correlation coefficient between two lines at the image
center using several appropriate line sizes and the highest
absolute value of the coefficient will indicate the right
line size. That is why you should be cautious with the very
large images, because guessing process may take a while
(depending on your system performance). Of course, the
utility can’t guess the header size, number of bands
and data type, so it should be specified manually. If you
don’t know anything about your image, just try with
the several combinations of those options.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">There is no
magic, it is just a mathematical statistics, so it can be
wrong in some cases. But for most ordinary images guessing
method will work fine.</p>
<h2>SEE ALSO
<a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>pal2rgb</b>(1),
<b>tiffinfo</b>(1), <b>tiffcp</b>(1), <b>tiffmedian</b>(1),
<b>libtiff</b>(3)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Libtiff library
home page: <b>http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</b></p>
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