Unused and no longer maintained

PyLibTiff V0.1.0

This Git repository contains a Python wrapper for the libtiff library.

It provides the following features:

• read and write TIFF images using the libtiff v4 reference implementation
• read and write scientific grade TIFF images
• support gray8, gray16, rgb8, rgb16 image formats
• interleaved and planar format for RGB composite format
• LZW compression
• Numpy array

The wrapper is generated by Swig and built using CMake.

The source code should be considered as a concrete example to read and write TIFF images using the libtiff, but not as a clean Python module. A nice enhancement would be to use CFFI instead of Swig and build using a standard setup.py. (I don't plan to do it soon.)

This Python module was written as an alternative to the unmaintained PIL library that provides a partial TIFF implementation written in Python. In opposite this implementation could gives access to the whole TIFF format.

Source Repository

The PyLibTiff project is hosted at github http://github.com/FabriceSalvaire/PyLibTiff

Requirements

• libtiff (devel package)
• Python 2.7 (devel package)
• Numpy
• CMake
• Swig
• GCC

Building & Installing

Run the following commands in a terminal:

git clone git@github.com:FabriceSalvaire/PyLibTiff.git
mkdir PyLibTiff-build
cd PyLibTiff-build
ccmake PyLibTiff

This procedure was tested on Fedora 18 x64, take care to compile against Python 2.7 library and not Python 3.

Running Examples

See Python files in the examples directory.