Handling Group4 TIFF images in python

Question

PIL doesn\'t natively support G4 images, is there some other python package that does? I need to read multi-page TIFF images and pull convert them into gif/png on the fly t

Answer 1

See this post about a patch against PIL, this project to wrap FreeImage, and this project to wrap libtiff.

Answer 2

Using PythonMagick:

from PythonMagick import Image
Image('CCITT_4.TIF[0]').write("PNG8:CCITT_4.PNG")