Read and write image data from and to TIFF files

 Image and meta-data can be read from TIFF, BigTIFF, OME-TIFF, STK, LSM, NIH,
 ImageJ, MicroManager, FluoView, SEQ and GEL files.
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 Only a subset of the TIFF specification is supported, mainly uncompressed and
 losslessly compressed 2**(0 to 6) bit integer, 16, 32 and 64-bit float,
 grayscale and RGB(A) images, which are commonly used in bio-scientific imaging.
 Specifically, reading JPEG/CCITT compressed image data or EXIF/IPTC/GPS/XMP
 meta-data is not implemented. Only primary info records are read for STK,
 FluoView, MicroManager, and NIH image formats.
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 TIFF, the Tagged Image File Format, is under the control of Adobe Systems.
 BigTIFF allows for files greater than 4 GB. STK, LSM, FluoView, SEQ, GEL, and
 OME-TIFF, are custom extensions defined by MetaMorph, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging,
 Olympus, Media Cybernetics, Molecular Dynamics, and the Open Microscopy
 Environment consortium respectively.