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- <h1 align=center>FAX2TIFF</h1>
- <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
- <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
- <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
- <a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
- <a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><br>
- <a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br>
- <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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- <a name="NAME"></a>
- <h2>NAME</h2>
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- <p>fax2tiff − create a <small>TIFF</small> Class F fax
- file from raw fax data</p>
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- <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
- <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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- <p><b>fax2tiff</b> [ <i>options</i> ] [ <b>−o</b>
- <i>output.tif</i> ] <i>input.raw</i></p>
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- <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
- <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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- <p><i>Fax2tiff</i> creates a <small>TIFF</small> file
- containing <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 or Group 4 encoded
- data from one or more files containing
- ‘‘raw’’ Group 3 or Group 4 encoded
- data (typically obtained directly from a fax modem). By
- default, each row of data in the resultant
- <small>TIFF</small> file is 1-dimensionally encoded and
- padded or truncated to 1728 pixels, as needed. The resultant
- image is a set of low resolution (98 lines/inch) or medium
- resolution (196 lines/inch) pages, each of which is a single
- strip of data. The generated file conforms to the
- <small>TIFF</small> Class F ( <small>FAX</small> )
- specification for storing facsimile data. This means, in
- particular, that each page of the data does <b>not</b>
- include the trailing <i>return to control</i> (
- <small>RTC</small> ) code; as required for transmission by
- the <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 specifications. The old,
- ‘‘classic’’, format is created if
- the <b>−c</b> option is used. (The Class F format can
- also be requested with the <b>−f</b> option.)</p>
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- <p>The default name of the output image is <i>fax.tif</i>;
- this can be changed with the <b>−o</b> option. Each
- input file is assumed to be a separate page of facsimile
- data from the same document. The order in which input files
- are specified on the command line is the order in which the
- resultant pages appear in the output file.</p>
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- </table>
- <a name="OPTIONS"></a>
- <h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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- <p>Options that affect the interpretation of input data
- are:</p>
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- <p><b>−3</b></p>
- </td>
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- <td width="80%">
- <p>Assume input data is <small>CCITT</small> Group 3
- encoded (default).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−4</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Assume input data is <small>CCITT</small> Group 4
- encoded.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−U</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Assume input data is uncompressed (Group 3 or Group
- 4).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
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- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−1</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Assume input data is encoded with the 1-dimensional
- version of the <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding
- algorithm (default).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−2</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Assume input data is 2-dimensional version of the
- <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding algorithm.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−P</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Assume input data is <b>not</b> EOL-aligned (default).
- This option has effect with Group 3 encoded input only.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
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- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−A</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Assume input data is EOL-aligned. This option has effect
- with Group 3 encoded input only.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−M</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Treat input data as having bits filled from most
- significant bit ( <small>MSB</small> ) to most least bit (
- <small>LSB</small> ).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−L</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Treat input data as having bits filled from least
- significant bit ( <small>LSB</small> ) to most significant
- bit ( <small>MSB</small> ) (default).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−B</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Assume input data was encoded with black as 0 and white
- as 1.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−W</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Assume input data was encoded with black as 1 and white
- as 0 (default).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−R</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Specify the vertical resolution, in lines/inch, of the
- input images. By default input are assumed to have a
- vertical resolution of 196 lines/inch. If images are low
- resolution facsimile, a value of 98 lines/inch should be
- specified.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−X</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Specify the width, in pixels, of the input images. By
- default input are assumed to have a width of 1728
- pixels.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
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- <p>Options that affect the output file format are:</p>
- </td>
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- <p><b>−o</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Specify the name of the output file.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
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- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−7</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force output to be compressed with the
- <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding algorithm
- (default).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−8</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force output to be compressed with the
- <small>CCITT</small> Group 4 Huffman encoding.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−u</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force output to be uncompressed (Group 3 or Group
- 4).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−5</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force output to be encoded with the 1-dimensional
- version of the <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding
- algorithm.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−6</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force output to be encoded with the 2-dimensional
- version of the <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding
- algorithm (default).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−a</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force the last bit of each <i>End Of Line</i> (
- <small>EOL</small> ) code to land on a byte boundary
- (default). This ‘‘zero padding’’
- will be reflected in the contents of the
- <i>Group3Options</i> tag of the resultant
- <small>TIFF</small> file. This option has effect with Group
- 3 encoded output only.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−p</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Do not EOL-align output. This option has effect with
- Group 3 encoded output only.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−c</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Generate "classic" Group 3 TIFF format.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−f</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Generate TIFF Class F (TIFF/F) format (default).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−m</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force output data to have bits filled from most
- significant bit ( <small>MSB</small> ) to most least bit (
- <small>LSB</small> ).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−l</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force output data to have bits filled from least
- significant bit ( <small>LSB</small> ) to most significant
- bit ( <small>MSB</small> ) (default).</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−r</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Specify the number of rows (scanlines) in each strip of
- data written to the output file. By default (or when value
- <b>0</b> is specified), <i>tiffcp</i> attempts to set the
- rows/strip that no more than 8 kilobytes of data appear in a
- strip (with except of G3/G4 compression schemes). If you
- specify special value <b>−1</b> it will results in
- infinite number of the rows per strip. The entire image will
- be the one strip in that case. This is default in case of
- G3/G4 output compression schemes.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−s</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Stretch the input image vertically by writing each input
- row of data twice to the output file.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−v</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force <i>fax2tiff</i> to print the number of rows of
- data it retrieved from the input file.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- <tr valign="top" align="left">
- <td width="10%"></td>
- <td width="3%">
- <p><b>−z</b></p>
- </td>
- <td width="5%"></td>
- <td width="80%">
- <p>Force output to be compressed with the LZW encoding.</p>
- </td>
- <td width="0%">
- </td>
- </table>
- <a name="DIAGNOSTICS"></a>
- <h2>DIAGNOSTICS</h2>
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- <p>The following warnings and errors come from the decoding
- routines in the library.</p>
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- <p><b>Warning, %s: Premature EOL at scanline %d (x
- %d).\n</b>. The input data had a row that was shorter than
- the expected width. The row is padded with white.</p>
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- <p><b>%s: Premature EOF at scanline %d (x %d).\n</b>. The
- decoder ran out of data in the middle of a scanline. The
- resultant row is padded with white.</p>
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- <p><b>%s: Bad code word at row %d, x %d\n</b>. An invalid
- Group 3 <i>code</i> was encountered while decoding the input
- file. The row number and horizontal position is given. The
- remainder of the input row is discarded, while the
- corresponding output row is padded with white.</p>
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- <p><b>%s: Bad 2D code word at scanline %d.\n</b>. An invalid
- Group 4 or 2D Group 3 <i>code</i> was encountered while
- decoding the input file. The row number and horizontal
- position is given. The remainder of the input row is
- discarded, while the corresponding output row is padded with
- white.</p>
- </td>
- </table>
- <a name="BUGS"></a>
- <h2>BUGS</h2>
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- <p>Input data are assumed to have a a ‘‘top
- left’’ orientation; it should be possible to
- override this assumption from the command line.</p>
- </td>
- </table>
- <a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
- <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
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- <p><b><small>CCITT</small> Recommendation T.4</b>
- (Standardization of Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus for Document
- Transmission).</p>
- <!-- INDENTATION -->
- <p><b>The Spirit of TIFF Class F</b>, an appendix to the
- TIFF 5.0 specification prepared by Cygnet Technologies.</p>
- <!-- INDENTATION -->
- <p><b>tiffinfo</b>(1), <b>tiffdither</b>(1),
- <b>tiffgt</b>(1), <b>libtiff</b>(3)</p>
- <!-- INDENTATION -->
- <p>Libtiff library home page:
- <b>http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</b></p>
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