The basic utilities for image display/manipulation in Ruby are posted.
For this blog, we will use the .tif version of a public domain image of submucosa selected from Gray's Anatomy and downloaded from the Wikipedia Commons.
The Ruby script tifadd.rb adds a simple comment, "Hello world" to the
tif file submu_bw.tif.
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
require 'RMagick'
include Magick
tissue = ImageList.new("submu_bw.tif")
tissue.cur_image[:Comment] = "Hello world"
tissue_copy = ImageList.new
tissue_copy = tissue.cur_image.copy
tissue_copy.write("submu_2.tif")
exit
The Ruby script is invoked from the command line.
c:\>ruby tifadd.rb
That's all there is to it. The comment can be extracted from the new .tif file, submu_2.tif, with the Ruby script tifout.rb.
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
require 'RMagick'
include Magick
tissue = ImageList.new("submu_2.tif")
print tissue.properties['Comment']
exit
Here is the output.
c:\ftp>ruby tifout.rb
Hello world
It's very simple, but this technique allows you to start annotating your .tif files with text.
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