[ome-users] question about image format conversion

[jchen at alumni.caltech.edu]

Hello,

First of all, I want to say that people have been very helpful in
answering my questions regarding OME.

I have a question about image formats. I would like to be able to take a
TIFF file, along with an Excel spreadsheet containing metadata, and
convert it into an OME-TIFF or OME-XML image. I would also like to do the
opposite - take an OME-TIFF or OME-XML image, and extract the metadata
into an Excel spreadsheet (or perhaps a tab-delimited text-file). Are
there currently such programs that can do these things?

Also, is there (or will there be) support for Photoshop (.psd) images?
Again, is there currently a conversion tool that can convert a photoshop
image into an OME-XML/OME-TIFF image?

Ideally, for our system, we would like to have a standard for the images
stored on our OME server (such as OME-TIFF or OME-XML), while still having
the flexibilty of a client being able to download and view the images in
say, Photoshop; or extracting meta-data into Excel.

Thanks!
-Jerry