[NAME]
tifffile \- Read image and meta-data from TIFF, STK, LSM, OME-TIFF, and FluoView files.

[SYNOPSIS]
.B tifffile
.RI [ options ] " files" ...

[DESCRIPTION]
Only a subset of the TIFF specification is supported, mainly uncompressed and
losslessly compressed 1-32 bit integer as well as 32 and 64-bit float
images, which are commonly used in scientific imaging.

TIFF, the Tagged Image File Format, is under the control of Adobe Systems.
STK and LSM are TIFF with custom extensions used by MetaMorph respectively
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging. Currently only primary info records are read for
STK, FluoView, and NIH image formats.

[AUTHOR]
Christoph Gohlke <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke
Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine

This  manual  page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used by others.

[SEE ALSO]
.BR tiffdump (1),
.BR tiffinfo (1).
