使用 Homebrew, apt 安装 largetifftools

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• tifffastcrop
• tiffmakemosaic
• tiffsplittiles

项目历史

The official page says LargeTIFFTools was developed by the Modeling of the Living team at IJCLab, formerly IMNC, near Paris. It is tied to pathology and microscopy slide image workflows, and the page asks academic users to cite a 2013 Diagnostic Pathology article about analyzing huge pathology images with open-source software.

The toolkit consists of `tiffmakemosaic`, `tifffastcrop`, and `tiffsplittiles`. Its release notes emphasize practical file-format and robustness improvements: broader bit-depth handling, PNG output, libpng build compatibility, better corrupted-input exit codes, Fax-like compression support, multi-directory TIFF handling, WebP and Zstd compression support, and zero-size image checks in release 1.4.2.

采用历史

LargeTIFFTools is niche, but it entered general package ecosystems because it solves a real memory-bound image-processing problem. Debian packaged 1.3.7 on 2016-11-10, and Debian's package page lists it as a C program for TIFF/raster-image work with libtiff, JPEG, PNG, and OpenMP runtime dependencies.

使用方式

Users apply the tools from a shell or by drag-and-drop on Windows. Typical jobs include making mosaics, extracting rectangular regions, and splitting tiled TIFFs into independent files while avoiding whole-image decoding.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

For package nerds, LargeTIFFTools is an example of the tiny scientific utility that earns a formula because the general tools can be too memory-hungry. It complements libtiff, ImageMagick, and GraphicsMagick by specializing in large-slide TIFF workflows.

时间线

• 2013: The official page points academic users to a Diagnostic Pathology article on huge pathology images.
• 2016-11-10: Debian changelog records initial Debian packaging of version 1.3.7.
• 2017-09-18: Debian changelog records new upstream version 1.3.10.
• 2021-07-17: Debian changelog records version 1.4 with WebP and Zstd-related packaging dependencies.
• 2025-02-26: Debian changelog records new upstream version 1.4.2.

Related projects

• Related projects include libtiff, BigTIFF, ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick, NDPITools, and microscopy/pathology whole-slide imaging tools.

来源

• https://bigtiff.org/
• https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/largetifftools/largetifftools_1.4.2-2_changelog
• https://packages.debian.org/sid/largetifftools
• https://pperso.ijclab.in2p3.fr/page_perso/Deroulers/software/largetifftools