Overview

I created a program to generate Pyramid Tiled TIFF files using pyvips. You can try it on the following Google Colab.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VO1PgKgS3H21zXpg4g2inN-mtIrON5TQ?usp=sharing

When delivering images via IIIF, there are situations where Pyramid Tiled TIFF files need to be created. We hope this is helpful for image conversion using Python and Vips.

The parameters are based on the following.

https://github.com/samvera-labs/serverless-iiif#using-vips

Also, as one example of how to deliver converted Pyramid Tiled TIFF files, the following article may also be helpful.

Key Points

Installing vips

To use pyvips, vips must be installed in advance. The following is helpful.

https://www.libvips.org/install.html

Creating Pyramid Tiled TIFF Files with pyvips

Use as follows.

The above should produce the same result as the following.