Can't read and write a TIFF image file using Java ImageIO standard library

If you don't like or can't use JAI for any reason I have written a TIFF ImageReader plugin for ImageIO, available on GitHub. It is pure Java and does not need any native installs, and comes with a very friendly open source license (BSD).

It supports any baseline TIFF option, along with a lot of standard extensions. From version 3.1 the TIFF plugin also has write support.

With the proper JARs in your class path, usage can be as simple as:

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(inputTIFF);
// ...modify image (compose, resize, sharpen, etc)...
ImageIO.write(image, "TIFF", outputTIFF);

I tried JAI, and it didn't work for me.

Where are you stuck? Does the following work for you?

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.awt.image.RenderedImage;
import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGCodec;
import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGImageEncoder;
import javax.media.jai.NullOpImage;
import javax.media.jai.OpImage;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.SeekableStream;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.FileSeekableStream;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.TIFFDecodeParam;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.ImageDecoder;
import com.sun.media.jai.codec.ImageCodec;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        File file = new File("input.tif");
        try {
            SeekableStream s = new FileSeekableStream(file);
            TIFFDecodeParam param = null;
            ImageDecoder dec = ImageCodec.createImageDecoder("tiff", s, param);
            RenderedImage op = new NullOpImage(dec.decodeAsRenderedImage(0),
                                               null,
                                               OpImage.OP_IO_BOUND,
                                               null);
            FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("output.jpg");
            JPEGImageEncoder jpeg = JPEGCodec.createJPEGEncoder(fos);
            jpeg.encode(op.getData());
            fos.close();
        }
        catch (java.io.IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println(ioe);
        } 
    }
}

According to JEP 262: TIFF Image I/O the TIFF plugin that used to be part of JAI will be available as part of the Java SE, starting from Java 9.

That means, using Java 9, the following code will just work, without any extra imports or dependencies:

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(inputTIFF);
// ...modify image (compose, resize, sharpen, etc)...
ImageIO.write(image, "TIFF", outputTIFF);

I haven't yet been able to verify the support for non-baseline TIFF flavors in this plugin, but I assume at least baseline TIFFs should be fully supported.

Add Maven dependency :

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.geotoolkit</groupId>
  <artifactId>geotk-coverageio</artifactId>
  <version>3.17</version>
</dependency>

Code example :

import org.geotoolkit.image.io.plugin.RawTiffImageReader;

IIORegistry registry = IIORegistry.getDefaultInstance();   
registry.registerServiceProvider(new RawTiffImageReader.Spi());            

String[] a = ImageIO.getReaderFileSuffixes();    
for (int i=0; i<a.length; i++) {
 System.out.println(a[i]);
}   

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File("C:\\mypic.tiff"));

ImageIO.write(image, "jpg",new File("C:\\out.jpg"));
ImageIO.write(image, "gif",new File("C:\\out.gif"));
ImageIO.write(image, "png",new File("C:\\out.png"));
ImageIO.write(image, "tif",new File("C:\\out.tiff"));