This sounds eerily like a program I wrote for a client a few years ago (but no longer have access). I called it "the butcher." Trim the fat margins, find the best cutting strategy to give some overlap on each tiled page.

That said, I'd have you look at ImageMagick, which has some support for the basic operations, and works very well with TIFF files. You may find you can script everything from the command line, or you may find the PerlMagick bindings to be useful.

TIFF isn't the problem, it's just an implementation detail. The problem is deciding what to do with those big images to make them into something your users can use.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: TIFF Perl Module needed by halley
in thread TIFF Perl Module needed by monsieur_champs

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