Generic tiled TIFF format

Format

single-file pyramidal tiled TIFF

File extensions

.tif

OpenSlide vendor backend

generic-tiff

Detection

OpenSlide will detect a file as generic TIFF if:

1. No other detections succeed.
2. The file is TIFF.
3. The initial image is tiled.

TIFF Image Directory Organization

The first image in the TIFF file is the full-resolution image. Any other tiled images in the file with the “reduced resolution” bit set are assumed to be reduced-resolution versions of the original.

Associated Images

None.

Known Properties

Many TIFF tags are encoded as properties starting with “tiff.”.

Test Data

https://openslide.cs.cmu.edu/download/openslide-testdata/Generic-TIFF/