TIFFDUMP(1)

💖 TIFFDUMP(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to tiffdump — the LibTIFF girlies' fave little snoop tool, and yes she's here to spill ALL the tea about your TIFF files ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tiffdump — print verbatim information about TIFF files 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tiffdump [ options ] name …

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so tiffdump displays directory information from files created according to the Tag Image File Format, Revision 6.0. no cap, she really does the whole thing.

first up, the header of each TIFF file gets shown — that's the magic number, the version, and the first directory offset — and then, right after that, the tag contents of each directory in the file. one by one. iconic behavior honestly.

for every single tag, she shows you the name, the data type, the count, and the value(s). and when the symbolic name for a tag or a data type is known? she shows you the symbolic name <em>followed by its numeric (decimal) value</em>, because she's thorough like that 💖

tag values get displayed enclosed in <> characters, immediately preceded by the value of the count field. for example, an ImageWidth tag might be displayed as:

ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<800>

literally so satisfying to look at. 🤌

and here's the thing — tiffdump is particularly useful for investigating the contents of TIFF files that libtiff does not understand. like when libtiff is standing there like 🧍 and you're like "bestie I got you" and you pull out tiffdump. main character energy fr fr.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h — force numeric data to be printed in hexadecimal rather than the default decimal. hex girlies rise 🫶
• -m items — change the number of indirect data items that are printed. by default, this will be 24. so if 24 isn't giving what it needs to give, you can adjust 💅
• -o offset — dump the contents of the IFD at a particular file offset. the file offset may be specified using the usual C-style syntax; i.e. a leading 0x for hexadecimal and a leading 0 for octal. yes babe, the old-school number notation, we love to see it ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• tiffinfo (1)
• libtiff (3tiff)

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

LibTIFF contributors — the collective, the group chat, the team 💜

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

1988-2025, LibTIFF contributors

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okay that's the whole page bestie, no gatekeeping here 💖

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and that's a wrap, gorgeous 🌸 this was LibTIFF version 4.7, dated Jun 27, 2026 — go forth and dump those TIFFs, you absolute legend 👑💅✨