FineReader 8.0

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Bruno Rotondi

Hi

After reading the images FineReader autorotates them and saves them as
0001.tif, 0002.tif etc.

But these pictures are black and white only (even there must be the
color/gray information included too)

Does anyone know how to convert these *.tif back to
color/gray-Pictures?

(or is there another newsgroup to ask this question?

Thanks for any help!

Bruno Rotondi
 
Bruno Rotondi said:
Hi

After reading the images FineReader autorotates them and saves them as
0001.tif, 0002.tif etc.

But these pictures are black and white only (even there must be the
color/gray information included too)

Does anyone know how to convert these *.tif back to
color/gray-Pictures?

(or is there another newsgroup to ask this question?

Thanks for any help!

Bruno Rotondi
Click to expand...

If the images have been reduced to one bit images, (B&W), there is no way to
recover the lost information. Once the data is gone, it so just gone.
 
Nothing has gone: I can reimport the Image and all is here - or I can
manipulate the Image and THEN the data goes away and only black/white
appears. It must have to do something with the 3 Frames these tifs
have...

Bruno
 
On 30 Sep 2006 14:25:02 -0700, Bruno Rotondi staggered into the Black
Sun and said:

When you use that "G2" excuse for an NNTP client, follow the directions
at http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/ to try to make it include context.
Context restored:

CSM1 is (as usual) correct here. Once you save a TIFF with Group4 or
Group3 compression, it's black-and-white, and that's it. You must save
your TIFFs with LZW (or RLE, or various other methods) compressions, in
grayscale (or color) to get color. I recommend LZW, as everything can
read that.
Nothing has gone: I can reimport the [image] and all is here--or I can
manipulate the [image] and THEN the data goes away and only
black/white appears. It must have to do something with the 3 [frames]
these [TIFFs] have...
Click to expand...

TIFF is an acronym for Tagged Image File Format, so it should really be
capitalized. If you mean that these TIFFs have 3 sub-images, it's
totally possible for a TIFF to have multiple sub-images in color or
grayscale. Some (broken) software can't deal with that.

What you really should do is *describe exactly* what you did to get
these TIFFs. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html may help
you do that. You'll want write up a short list kind of like so:

0. Start FooProgram 1.2.3 (using 'DozeXP)
1. File->Acquire Image,
2. Color->Fiddle With Image->Adjust color balance
3. File->Save As->TIFF , use $COMPRESSION.

....that way, someone who's familiar with FooProgram can say, "Don't do
that! Do @STEPS instead, and it'll all work!" HTH,
 
Hmmm... I already said everything I can:
1. Start FineReader 8.0
2. Import the Pictures
3. Save the Work
4. You will find 0001.tif etc. which have this special Format.

BUT NEW INFO: Opening these Tifs mit Gimp gives theses Messages:
- Sorry, can not handle YCbCr images with Planarconfiguration=2
- Unsupported layout, no RGBA loader

I think If I find a program able to convert Tiffs with
Planarconfiguration=2 I could get happy :)

(I opened another Thread for this Problem)

Thanks!

Bruno
 
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