Replying to my own post, this looks like a very promising tool: "Pytiff is a library for using TIFF files and advanced imaging in Python." http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~omh221/software_projects/pytiff/pytiff.html
Ed Suominen wrote: > I'd like to write a Python-based commandline tool that will scan pages > with SANE, applying CCITT Group 4 compression during scanning, and produce > a single PDF file. I would release it under GPL. Right now, I'm relying on > a workable but inflexible shell script that pipes stuff between scanimage, > tiffcp, tiff2ps, and ps2pdf. > > What's the best way currently to do CCITT4 compression (e.g., of > intermediate TIFF-format images) from Python? PIL doesn't seem to support > CCITT4 compression, and the read-only patch [1] that's available won't > help in my case. I'd like to incorporate as much as possible into the > Python code and imported packages, rather than relying on pipes to a bunch > of external programs. > > Same question regarding SANE -- I can't seem to find the supposed PIL > support for SANE in the release on my system. Anyone know about that, or > alternatives? > > --- > Ed Suominen > Registered Patent Agent > Open-Source Software Author (yes, both...) > Web Site: http://www.eepatents.com > > [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2003-July/002354.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
