R: Get the description on a TIFF file.

getDescription {rtiff}

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Get the description on a TIFF file.

Description

Gets the TIFF description field (tag 270) for a TIFF file.

Usage

getDescription(fn)

Arguments

`fn`	The name of the tiff file.

Value

A string with the description field from the TIFF file, or NA if there is no such field.

Author(s)

Eric Kort <eric.kort@vai.org>

Examples

# This has no description
getDescription(system.file("tiff", "jello.tif", package="rtiff"))
# but this has
getDescription(system.file("tiff", "t1.tif", package="rtiff"))

[Package rtiff version 1.4.6 Index]