Read/Write Tiffs in Java

Question

Any ideas for open-source libraries, with Apache or similar license, for reading and writing TIFF files in Java 5 (Preferably with the AWT image-processing libraries, including ImageIO.)

I'm aware that Java 6 is supposed to support TIFF. I know about Sun's JAI implementation, but that license doesn't work for the company I work at; and Asprise, but that is a commercial product. Sanselan looks good, but that is not yet a released product.

Any recommendations for a another TIFF-reader implementation?

Answer 1

You should be able to use iText to read/write tiffs.

Answer 2

Freeimage should be fairly easy to use from Java - I've used it from C# and VB6.

The only problem with open source image libraries is that they cannot read the JPEG encoded Tiffs (from the TIFF 6.0 standard) that a lot of the commercial scanners create especially with a dirty image.

Libtiff can be recompiled to support it, but I have never tried it.

Answer 3

@ichiban iText can read TIF, not write.