I am trying to merge 2 tiff images (check images - front and back) into a single tiff file using Imager.pm. Merged image file size is slightly greater than the sum of the images but its resulting into a single image (either the front or back image depending on the order of merge). Can someone please help in resolving this issue?

Code snippet I am using:

#! /usr/bin/perl

use Imager;

my @im;
my $tiffile = "./merged_image.tif";
unlink $tiffile;

my @images = glob("./*.tif");
print @images, "\n";

my $i=0;
for my $file (@images) {
  my $im = Imager->new();
  $im->read(file=>$file) or die "$0: Cannot read image $file: ",$im->e
+rrstr,"\n";

  my @alltags = $im->tags;
  foreach $tag ( @alltags ) {
    print $tag->[0], ":", $tag->[1], "\n";
  }

  push(@im, $im);
  $i = $i + 1;
}

## writing the above images to a single file
Imager->write_multi({ type=>'tiff',
                      file=>$tiffile,
                    },
                    @im)
  or die "$0: cannot save to $output: ",$Imager::ERRSTR,"\n";

#checking merged image properties  
my $im = Imager->new();
$im->read(file=>$tiffile) or die "$0: Cannot read image $file: ",$im->
+errstr,"\n";

my @alltags = $im->tags;
foreach $tag ( @alltags ) {
   print $tag->[0], ":", $tag->[1], "\n";
}


Output:
haikz@eidspstd99:/usr/home/shaikz ==> ./test2.pl
./009600209943_2.tif./009600209943_3.tif
tiff_bitspersample:1
tiff_photometric:0
tiff_resolutionunit:2
tiff_resolutionunit_name:inch
i_xres:200
i_yres:200
i_format:tiff
tiff_compression:fax4
tiff_bitspersample:1
tiff_photometric:0
tiff_resolutionunit:2
tiff_resolutionunit_name:inch
i_xres:200
i_yres:200
i_format:tiff
tiff_compression:fax4
tiff_bitspersample:1
tiff_photometric:0
tiff_resolutionunit:2
tiff_resolutionunit_name:inch
i_xres:200
i_yres:200
i_format:tiff
tiff_compression:fax4

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In reply to Merging 2 tiff images into a single image by zameer

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