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				What Kind of Tif is this? From Abbyy FineReader 8
				Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:21 pm
				by brotondi
				Hi
I need to manipulate Scanns after FineReader saved them as a special Tif with 3 Frames. But no Program I know can read these Tifs...
Here an example: 
http://brotondi.pytalhost.com/0005.tif
Any Idea? (Dont lose too much time)
Thanks!
Bruno
 
			
					
				Two in three…
				Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:33 am
				by Clo
				
 Hello !
• Indeed XnView displays only the first frame, and doesn't open the others… 
 
- The same with "The Gimp" … The best I could obtain is with "Imagine",
originally a free plugin for Total Commander (has a standalone version too…).
- I get this :
———— 
- No more, sorry… The third frame is black.
 

 KR
Claude
Clo
 
			
					
				
				Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:15 am
				by XnTriq
				
 brotondi & Clo
I can confirm Clo's observation. The 2nd frame is either corrupted or blank, but the 1st and 3rd seem to be OK.
Using XnView, you could extract those frames/pages into separate images:
- Tools » Multipage file » Extract All Into...
You'll probably get a warning message (“TIFF : Bad data compression algorithm !”), but the extracted first and last frame should be just fine.
Method #2: 
Jump to a specific frame, copy it to the clipboard (
Ctrl+C) and then paste it into an image editor.
- View » Page » Last (Shift+End) / First (Shift+Home)
 
			
					
				No page---
				Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:41 am
				by Clo
				—>  XnTriq 

 Hello !
• There is a snag with XnView : Despite the "
Next page" button is available, it doesn't work ! 
- You don't get the next page ! 
- With "
Extract all to…", I get only the two frames I show above, and like you say, 
I get the error message (probably for the faulty missing frame)
 

 Twisted format… 
 
 
 
 KR
Claude
Clo
 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:41 am
				by brotondi
				Thanks for your efforts. I think this is no regular Tiff-format
FineReader 8 (
http://www.abbyy.com/finereader8/?param=45596) can import this Tiff (and all similar) without problem. From there it can be exportet (after some manual work for each single picture) to a regular jpg.
Unfortunately FineReader-Support was not able to tell me more about this format...
Bruno
 
			
					
				The Gimp knows
				Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:46 am
				by Clo
				—> 
brotondi

 Hello ! 
- You are welcome !
- When trying to open the pic with "The Gimp", I got a very detailled error message 
(not faulty pic, but not supported) with the exact type of file…
—————   
 
 KR
Claude
Clo
 
			
					
				
				Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:38 pm
				by brotondi
				Thanks Clo for your Help!
I'm now searching a Program which is able to convert Tiff with PlanarConfiguration=2 ... but this format is not well known... 
http://groups.google.ch/group/comp.grap ... 7d8671358/
we will see if I'm lucky  
 
 
Bruno