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- -Introduction to the TIFF Documentation -

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-The following definitions are used throughout this documentation. -They are consistent with the terminology used in the TIFF 6.0 specification. - -

Sample -

The unit of information stored in an image; often called a - channel elsewhere. Sample values are numbers, usually unsigned - integers, but possibly in some other format if the SampleFormat - tag is specified in a TIFF -

Pixel -

A collection of one or more samples that go together. -

Row -

An Nx1 rectangular collection of pixels. -

Tile -

An NxM rectangular organization of data (or pixels). -

Strip -

A tile whose width is the full image width. -

Compression -

A scheme by which pixel or sample data are stored in - an encoded form, specifically with the intent of reducing the - storage cost. -

Codec -

Software that implements the decoding and encoding algorithms - of a compression scheme. - - -

-In order to better understand how TIFF works (and consequently this -software) it is important to recognize the distinction between the -physical organization of image data as it is stored in a TIFF and how -the data is interpreted and manipulated as pixels in an image. TIFF -supports a wide variety of storage and data compression schemes that -can be used to optimize retrieval time and/or minimize storage space. -These on-disk formats are independent of the image characteristics; it -is the responsibility of the TIFF reader to process the on-disk storage -into an in-memory format suitable for an application. Furthermore, it -is the responsibility of the application to properly interpret the -visual characteristics of the image data. TIFF defines a framework for -specifying the on-disk storage format and image characteristics with -few restrictions. This permits significant complexity that can be -daunting. Good applications that handle TIFF work by handling as wide -a range of storage formats as possible, while constraining the -acceptable image characteristics to those that make sense for the -application. - - -

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