How Can I Programmatically Build a Multi-Page TIFF out of Many Single Page TIFFs, Using Python?

I've found, via Google, numerous people asking the same question, but no solutions. The Python Image Lib开发者_如何学JAVArary (PIL) has tools for stepping through an already existing multi-page TIFF, but nothing about creating them.

Libraries would hopefully be available on Windows, for Python 2.6.

If there's some freeware out there which will do the trick, I wouldn't mind seeing it, but I was hoping I could accomplish this in Python.

You can use ImageMagick for this (available on Unix and Windows). A linux shell command would be

$ convert *.tif multipage.tif

where *.tif are all your individual tif files.

A freeware option: Irfanview can do it, even via the command line; this allows you to call it from Python.

From changes version 3.90:

New command line option:

/multitif=(tifname,file1,...,fileN) 

Example to create multipage TIF test.tif from 2 other files:

i_view32 /multitif=(c:\test.tif,c:\test1.bmp,c:\dummy.jpg) 

New command line option:

/append=tiffile 

Example to open c:\test.jpg and append it as (TIF) page to c:\test.tif

i_view32 c:\test.jpg /append=c:\test.tif 

I have used it once and know it works, though limitation on command line length apply.

you can use the command utility "tiffutil"