VBScript to combine tif documents

VBScript to combine tif documents

Hey Mr. Atherton,    

I have a solution to combine multiple .tif documents using java. You will need Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API for this. In this code, I am converting tiff images to java.awt.image.BufferedImage and in the second part, converting them back to tiff.

1st part:

BufferedImage image[] = new BufferedImage[numImages];

for (int i = 0; i < numImages; i++) {

    SeekableStream ss = new FileSeekableStream(input_dir + file[i]);

    ImageDecoder decoder = ImageCodec.createImageDecoder("tiff", ss, null);

    PlanarImage op = new NullOpImage(decoder.decodeAsRenderedImage(0), 

            null, OpImage.OP_IO_BOUND, null);

    image[i] = op.getAsBufferedImage();

}

2nd part:

TIFFEncode abc = new TIFFEncodeParam();

OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(output_dir + image_name + ".tif"); 

ImageEncoder encoder = ImageCodec.createImageEncoder("tiff", out, abc);

Vector vector = new Vector();   

for (int i = 0; i < numImages; i++) {

    vector.add(image[i]); 

}

abc.setExtraImages(vector.iterator()); 

encoder.encode(image[0]); 

out.close(); 

Apart from this, you can try free utility software available for this purpose.

You can try “FAXTOOL” – a simple software where you can drag and drop images to combine or split. Or go to the following link:

http://www.a-pdf.com/faq/can-i-merge-multiple-tiff-files-to-a-single-image.htm

Along with the free software you will also get a tutorial.