Text part is viewed fine but tiff output cannot be read by any viewer. Paint, Fax reader, MS Image etc. Running on red hat Linux. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Encode;

my $tiff_flag = 0;

my $count = 0;

open(FILE,'<',$ARGV[0]) or die 'Error opening input file';
binmode(FILE) or die 'Error setting binary mode on input file';

while (read (FILE,$_,4)) {
  my $rec_len = unpack("N",$_);
    die "Bad record length: $rec_len" unless ($rec_len > 0);
      read (FILE,$_,$rec_len);
        if (substr($_,0,2) eq "\xF5\xF2") {
            if ($tiff_flag) {
                  $count++;

                        open (TIFF, '>', $ARGV[0] . '_img' . sprintf("
+%04d",$count) . '.tiff') or die "Can't create image file";

                              binmode(TIFF) or die 'Error setting bina
+ry mode on image file';
                                    print TIFF substr($_,117);
                                          close TIFF;
                                              }
                                                  $_ = substr($_,0,117
+);
                                                    }
                                                      print decode ('c
+p1047', $_) . "\n";
                                                      }
                                                      close FILE;

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In reply to Re: Check21/X9.37 text extractor by Anonymous Monk
in thread Check21/X9.37 text extractor by delirium

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