[NAME] tifffile - Read image and meta-data from TIFF, STK, LSM, OME-TIFF, and FluoView files. [SYNOPSIS] tifffile [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] tiffdump(1), tiffinfo(1).