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Read .svs format of Images

Posted: 2011-11-10T10:06:37-07:00
by rohitkrishna
Hi everyone,

Iam new to image magick can anyone please help me in this ....


I want to read images of format .svs exetension. the image have dimensions of 60000x30000 and its size is nearly 100MB. can we read images like this using image-magick.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Read .svs format of Images

Posted: 2011-11-10T10:30:03-07:00
by magick
Try the following command:
  • convert 'CMU-1.svs[3]' CMU-1.png
It works without complaint.

Re: Read .svs format of Images

Posted: 2011-11-10T13:28:50-07:00
by wildbug
SVS is really just a pyramidal (multipage) TIFF file. You can see the pages and their dimensions using the identify command. ImageMagick can read most of them, but we've found the newer ones use JPEG2000 compression and cannot be read with libtiff.

If you want to work with the largest image in an SVS file of that size (60000x30000), vips might would work better since it doesn't read the whole thing into memory.

Re: Read .svs format of Images

Posted: 2011-11-18T18:00:31-07:00
by rohitkrishna
wildbug wrote:SVS is really just a pyramidal (multipage) TIFF file. You can see the pages and their dimensions using the identify command. ImageMagick can read most of them, but we've found the newer ones use JPEG2000 compression and cannot be read with libtiff.

If you want to work with the largest image in an SVS file of that size (60000x30000), vips might would work better since it doesn't read the whole thing into memory.
what is vips...?Can u please explain..?

Re: Read .svs format of Images

Posted: 2011-11-18T18:42:31-07:00
by magick
VIPS is one of many open-source image processing solutions. Its an alternative to ImageMagick like NetPBM, Gimp, etc.

Re: Read .svs format of Images

Posted: 2011-11-18T18:57:53-07:00
by fmw42

Re: Read .svs format of Images

Posted: 2011-11-19T13:03:27-07:00
by rohitkrishna
thank you much for your support @fmw42