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  10. <h1 align=center>FAX2TIFF</h1>
  11. <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
  12. <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
  13. <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
  14. <a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
  15. <a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><br>
  16. <a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br>
  17. <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
  18. <hr>
  19. <a name="NAME"></a>
  20. <h2>NAME</h2>
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  27. <p>fax2tiff &minus; create a <small>TIFF</small> Class F fax
  28. file from raw fax data</p>
  29. </td>
  30. </table>
  31. <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
  32. <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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  39. <p><b>fax2tiff</b> [ <i>options</i> ] [ <b>&minus;o</b>
  40. <i>output.tif</i> ] <i>input.raw</i></p>
  41. </td>
  42. </table>
  43. <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
  44. <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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  51. <p><i>Fax2tiff</i> creates a <small>TIFF</small> file
  52. containing <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 or Group 4 encoded
  53. data from one or more files containing
  54. &lsquo;&lsquo;raw&rsquo;&rsquo; Group 3 or Group 4 encoded
  55. data (typically obtained directly from a fax modem). By
  56. default, each row of data in the resultant
  57. <small>TIFF</small> file is 1-dimensionally encoded and
  58. padded or truncated to 1728 pixels, as needed. The resultant
  59. image is a set of low resolution (98 lines/inch) or medium
  60. resolution (196 lines/inch) pages, each of which is a single
  61. strip of data. The generated file conforms to the
  62. <small>TIFF</small> Class F ( <small>FAX</small> )
  63. specification for storing facsimile data. This means, in
  64. particular, that each page of the data does <b>not</b>
  65. include the trailing <i>return to control</i> (
  66. <small>RTC</small> ) code; as required for transmission by
  67. the <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 specifications. The old,
  68. &lsquo;&lsquo;classic&rsquo;&rsquo;, format is created if
  69. the <b>&minus;c</b> option is used. (The Class F format can
  70. also be requested with the <b>&minus;f</b> option.)</p>
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  72. <p>The default name of the output image is <i>fax.tif</i>;
  73. this can be changed with the <b>&minus;o</b> option. Each
  74. input file is assumed to be a separate page of facsimile
  75. data from the same document. The order in which input files
  76. are specified on the command line is the order in which the
  77. resultant pages appear in the output file.</p>
  78. </td>
  79. </table>
  80. <a name="OPTIONS"></a>
  81. <h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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  88. <p>Options that affect the interpretation of input data
  89. are:</p>
  90. </td>
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  94. cols="5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
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  96. <td width="10%"></td>
  97. <td width="3%">
  98. <p><b>&minus;3</b></p>
  99. </td>
  100. <td width="5%"></td>
  101. <td width="80%">
  102. <p>Assume input data is <small>CCITT</small> Group 3
  103. encoded (default).</p>
  104. </td>
  105. <td width="0%">
  106. </td>
  107. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  108. <td width="10%"></td>
  109. <td width="3%">
  110. <p><b>&minus;4</b></p>
  111. </td>
  112. <td width="5%"></td>
  113. <td width="80%">
  114. <p>Assume input data is <small>CCITT</small> Group 4
  115. encoded.</p>
  116. </td>
  117. <td width="0%">
  118. </td>
  119. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  120. <td width="10%"></td>
  121. <td width="3%">
  122. <p><b>&minus;U</b></p>
  123. </td>
  124. <td width="5%"></td>
  125. <td width="80%">
  126. <p>Assume input data is uncompressed (Group 3 or Group
  127. 4).</p>
  128. </td>
  129. <td width="0%">
  130. </td>
  131. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  132. <td width="10%"></td>
  133. <td width="3%">
  134. <p><b>&minus;1</b></p>
  135. </td>
  136. <td width="5%"></td>
  137. <td width="80%">
  138. <p>Assume input data is encoded with the 1-dimensional
  139. version of the <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding
  140. algorithm (default).</p>
  141. </td>
  142. <td width="0%">
  143. </td>
  144. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  145. <td width="10%"></td>
  146. <td width="3%">
  147. <p><b>&minus;2</b></p>
  148. </td>
  149. <td width="5%"></td>
  150. <td width="80%">
  151. <p>Assume input data is 2-dimensional version of the
  152. <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding algorithm.</p>
  153. </td>
  154. <td width="0%">
  155. </td>
  156. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  157. <td width="10%"></td>
  158. <td width="3%">
  159. <p><b>&minus;P</b></p>
  160. </td>
  161. <td width="5%"></td>
  162. <td width="80%">
  163. <p>Assume input data is <b>not</b> EOL-aligned (default).
  164. This option has effect with Group 3 encoded input only.</p>
  165. </td>
  166. <td width="0%">
  167. </td>
  168. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  169. <td width="10%"></td>
  170. <td width="3%">
  171. <p><b>&minus;A</b></p>
  172. </td>
  173. <td width="5%"></td>
  174. <td width="80%">
  175. <p>Assume input data is EOL-aligned. This option has effect
  176. with Group 3 encoded input only.</p>
  177. </td>
  178. <td width="0%">
  179. </td>
  180. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  181. <td width="10%"></td>
  182. <td width="3%">
  183. <p><b>&minus;M</b></p>
  184. </td>
  185. <td width="5%"></td>
  186. <td width="80%">
  187. <p>Treat input data as having bits filled from most
  188. significant bit ( <small>MSB</small> ) to most least bit (
  189. <small>LSB</small> ).</p>
  190. </td>
  191. <td width="0%">
  192. </td>
  193. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  194. <td width="10%"></td>
  195. <td width="3%">
  196. <p><b>&minus;L</b></p>
  197. </td>
  198. <td width="5%"></td>
  199. <td width="80%">
  200. <p>Treat input data as having bits filled from least
  201. significant bit ( <small>LSB</small> ) to most significant
  202. bit ( <small>MSB</small> ) (default).</p>
  203. </td>
  204. <td width="0%">
  205. </td>
  206. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  207. <td width="10%"></td>
  208. <td width="3%">
  209. <p><b>&minus;B</b></p>
  210. </td>
  211. <td width="5%"></td>
  212. <td width="80%">
  213. <p>Assume input data was encoded with black as 0 and white
  214. as 1.</p>
  215. </td>
  216. <td width="0%">
  217. </td>
  218. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  219. <td width="10%"></td>
  220. <td width="3%">
  221. <p><b>&minus;W</b></p>
  222. </td>
  223. <td width="5%"></td>
  224. <td width="80%">
  225. <p>Assume input data was encoded with black as 1 and white
  226. as 0 (default).</p>
  227. </td>
  228. <td width="0%">
  229. </td>
  230. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  231. <td width="10%"></td>
  232. <td width="3%">
  233. <p><b>&minus;R</b></p>
  234. </td>
  235. <td width="5%"></td>
  236. <td width="80%">
  237. <p>Specify the vertical resolution, in lines/inch, of the
  238. input images. By default input are assumed to have a
  239. vertical resolution of 196 lines/inch. If images are low
  240. resolution facsimile, a value of 98 lines/inch should be
  241. specified.</p>
  242. </td>
  243. <td width="0%">
  244. </td>
  245. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  246. <td width="10%"></td>
  247. <td width="3%">
  248. <p><b>&minus;X</b></p>
  249. </td>
  250. <td width="5%"></td>
  251. <td width="80%">
  252. <p>Specify the width, in pixels, of the input images. By
  253. default input are assumed to have a width of 1728
  254. pixels.</p>
  255. </td>
  256. <td width="0%">
  257. </td>
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  264. <td width="91%">
  265. <p>Options that affect the output file format are:</p>
  266. </td>
  267. </table>
  268. <!-- TABS -->
  269. <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
  270. cols="5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  271. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  272. <td width="10%"></td>
  273. <td width="3%">
  274. <p><b>&minus;o</b></p>
  275. </td>
  276. <td width="5%"></td>
  277. <td width="80%">
  278. <p>Specify the name of the output file.</p>
  279. </td>
  280. <td width="0%">
  281. </td>
  282. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  283. <td width="10%"></td>
  284. <td width="3%">
  285. <p><b>&minus;7</b></p>
  286. </td>
  287. <td width="5%"></td>
  288. <td width="80%">
  289. <p>Force output to be compressed with the
  290. <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding algorithm
  291. (default).</p>
  292. </td>
  293. <td width="0%">
  294. </td>
  295. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  296. <td width="10%"></td>
  297. <td width="3%">
  298. <p><b>&minus;8</b></p>
  299. </td>
  300. <td width="5%"></td>
  301. <td width="80%">
  302. <p>Force output to be compressed with the
  303. <small>CCITT</small> Group 4 Huffman encoding.</p>
  304. </td>
  305. <td width="0%">
  306. </td>
  307. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  308. <td width="10%"></td>
  309. <td width="3%">
  310. <p><b>&minus;u</b></p>
  311. </td>
  312. <td width="5%"></td>
  313. <td width="80%">
  314. <p>Force output to be uncompressed (Group 3 or Group
  315. 4).</p>
  316. </td>
  317. <td width="0%">
  318. </td>
  319. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  320. <td width="10%"></td>
  321. <td width="3%">
  322. <p><b>&minus;5</b></p>
  323. </td>
  324. <td width="5%"></td>
  325. <td width="80%">
  326. <p>Force output to be encoded with the 1-dimensional
  327. version of the <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding
  328. algorithm.</p>
  329. </td>
  330. <td width="0%">
  331. </td>
  332. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  333. <td width="10%"></td>
  334. <td width="3%">
  335. <p><b>&minus;6</b></p>
  336. </td>
  337. <td width="5%"></td>
  338. <td width="80%">
  339. <p>Force output to be encoded with the 2-dimensional
  340. version of the <small>CCITT</small> Group 3 Huffman encoding
  341. algorithm (default).</p>
  342. </td>
  343. <td width="0%">
  344. </td>
  345. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  346. <td width="10%"></td>
  347. <td width="3%">
  348. <p><b>&minus;a</b></p>
  349. </td>
  350. <td width="5%"></td>
  351. <td width="80%">
  352. <p>Force the last bit of each <i>End Of Line</i> (
  353. <small>EOL</small> ) code to land on a byte boundary
  354. (default). This &lsquo;&lsquo;zero padding&rsquo;&rsquo;
  355. will be reflected in the contents of the
  356. <i>Group3Options</i> tag of the resultant
  357. <small>TIFF</small> file. This option has effect with Group
  358. 3 encoded output only.</p>
  359. </td>
  360. <td width="0%">
  361. </td>
  362. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  363. <td width="10%"></td>
  364. <td width="3%">
  365. <p><b>&minus;p</b></p>
  366. </td>
  367. <td width="5%"></td>
  368. <td width="80%">
  369. <p>Do not EOL-align output. This option has effect with
  370. Group 3 encoded output only.</p>
  371. </td>
  372. <td width="0%">
  373. </td>
  374. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  375. <td width="10%"></td>
  376. <td width="3%">
  377. <p><b>&minus;c</b></p>
  378. </td>
  379. <td width="5%"></td>
  380. <td width="80%">
  381. <p>Generate &quot;classic&quot; Group 3 TIFF format.</p>
  382. </td>
  383. <td width="0%">
  384. </td>
  385. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  386. <td width="10%"></td>
  387. <td width="3%">
  388. <p><b>&minus;f</b></p>
  389. </td>
  390. <td width="5%"></td>
  391. <td width="80%">
  392. <p>Generate TIFF Class F (TIFF/F) format (default).</p>
  393. </td>
  394. <td width="0%">
  395. </td>
  396. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  397. <td width="10%"></td>
  398. <td width="3%">
  399. <p><b>&minus;m</b></p>
  400. </td>
  401. <td width="5%"></td>
  402. <td width="80%">
  403. <p>Force output data to have bits filled from most
  404. significant bit ( <small>MSB</small> ) to most least bit (
  405. <small>LSB</small> ).</p>
  406. </td>
  407. <td width="0%">
  408. </td>
  409. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  410. <td width="10%"></td>
  411. <td width="3%">
  412. <p><b>&minus;l</b></p>
  413. </td>
  414. <td width="5%"></td>
  415. <td width="80%">
  416. <p>Force output data to have bits filled from least
  417. significant bit ( <small>LSB</small> ) to most significant
  418. bit ( <small>MSB</small> ) (default).</p>
  419. </td>
  420. <td width="0%">
  421. </td>
  422. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  423. <td width="10%"></td>
  424. <td width="3%">
  425. <p><b>&minus;r</b></p>
  426. </td>
  427. <td width="5%"></td>
  428. <td width="80%">
  429. <p>Specify the number of rows (scanlines) in each strip of
  430. data written to the output file. By default (or when value
  431. <b>0</b> is specified), <i>tiffcp</i> attempts to set the
  432. rows/strip that no more than 8 kilobytes of data appear in a
  433. strip (with except of G3/G4 compression schemes). If you
  434. specify special value <b>&minus;1</b> it will results in
  435. infinite number of the rows per strip. The entire image will
  436. be the one strip in that case. This is default in case of
  437. G3/G4 output compression schemes.</p>
  438. </td>
  439. <td width="0%">
  440. </td>
  441. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  442. <td width="10%"></td>
  443. <td width="3%">
  444. <p><b>&minus;s</b></p>
  445. </td>
  446. <td width="5%"></td>
  447. <td width="80%">
  448. <p>Stretch the input image vertically by writing each input
  449. row of data twice to the output file.</p>
  450. </td>
  451. <td width="0%">
  452. </td>
  453. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  454. <td width="10%"></td>
  455. <td width="3%">
  456. <p><b>&minus;v</b></p>
  457. </td>
  458. <td width="5%"></td>
  459. <td width="80%">
  460. <p>Force <i>fax2tiff</i> to print the number of rows of
  461. data it retrieved from the input file.</p>
  462. </td>
  463. <td width="0%">
  464. </td>
  465. <tr valign="top" align="left">
  466. <td width="10%"></td>
  467. <td width="3%">
  468. <p><b>&minus;z</b></p>
  469. </td>
  470. <td width="5%"></td>
  471. <td width="80%">
  472. <p>Force output to be compressed with the LZW encoding.</p>
  473. </td>
  474. <td width="0%">
  475. </td>
  476. </table>
  477. <a name="DIAGNOSTICS"></a>
  478. <h2>DIAGNOSTICS</h2>
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  485. <p>The following warnings and errors come from the decoding
  486. routines in the library.</p>
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  488. <p><b>Warning, %s: Premature EOL at scanline %d (x
  489. %d).\n</b>. The input data had a row that was shorter than
  490. the expected width. The row is padded with white.</p>
  491. <!-- INDENTATION -->
  492. <p><b>%s: Premature EOF at scanline %d (x %d).\n</b>. The
  493. decoder ran out of data in the middle of a scanline. The
  494. resultant row is padded with white.</p>
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  496. <p><b>%s: Bad code word at row %d, x %d\n</b>. An invalid
  497. Group 3 <i>code</i> was encountered while decoding the input
  498. file. The row number and horizontal position is given. The
  499. remainder of the input row is discarded, while the
  500. corresponding output row is padded with white.</p>
  501. <!-- INDENTATION -->
  502. <p><b>%s: Bad 2D code word at scanline %d.\n</b>. An invalid
  503. Group 4 or 2D Group 3 <i>code</i> was encountered while
  504. decoding the input file. The row number and horizontal
  505. position is given. The remainder of the input row is
  506. discarded, while the corresponding output row is padded with
  507. white.</p>
  508. </td>
  509. </table>
  510. <a name="BUGS"></a>
  511. <h2>BUGS</h2>
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  517. <td width="91%">
  518. <p>Input data are assumed to have a a &lsquo;&lsquo;top
  519. left&rsquo;&rsquo; orientation; it should be possible to
  520. override this assumption from the command line.</p>
  521. </td>
  522. </table>
  523. <a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
  524. <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
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  531. <p><b><small>CCITT</small> Recommendation T.4</b>
  532. (Standardization of Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus for Document
  533. Transmission).</p>
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  535. <p><b>The Spirit of TIFF Class F</b>, an appendix to the
  536. TIFF 5.0 specification prepared by Cygnet Technologies.</p>
  537. <!-- INDENTATION -->
  538. <p><b>tiffinfo</b>(1), <b>tiffdither</b>(1),
  539. <b>tiffgt</b>(1), <b>libtiff</b>(3)</p>
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  541. <p>Libtiff library home page:
  542. <b>http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</b></p>
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