topic Re: RAW files support in ImageMagick/alfresco in Alfresco Archive

RAW files support in ImageMagick/alfresco

chrisokelly — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:12:00 GMT

Hello,Firstly I hope this is the correct subforum, it seemed like the best match but let me know if I'm wrong.Have been doing some testing for RAW file support in our alfresco deployment this morning. Given the great number of formats encompassed by RAW, my original thought was that some would be su

Re: RAW files support in ImageMagick/alfresco

mrogers — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:13:39 GMT

As this page says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format Raw format can be problematic since its not a standard.    It seems to be a catch all for many different camera formats.

Yes it will be possible to configure alfresco to process raw files.     And if you only deal with one raw format then it will be straightfoward.   But a general solution will take some work, not least because its an open ended task.

The first step will be to do mimetype detection on the raw file. Maybe tika can do it?   Or it can be added to tika?   Or there may be another tool.   Then once you have the file with the correct mime type then you can configure the transformers in the normal way.

Re: RAW files support in ImageMagick/alfresco

gumbie02151 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:55:45 GMT

I would like to see this functionality also.. I understand you'd need to be able to figure out what type of RAW the file is; Canon, Nikon, Kodak, etc.. All have thier own version of 'raw' images. Well as a work-around; for now I would be satisfied if converting current RAW version file into Adobe's version which handles everything you could desire, and is an industry standard.. Adobe's raw = DNG file type.

I use a Nikon, which is NEF format. I am considering keeping my archived raws in DNG format anyways, even before consider using Alfresco as my management system.

BYW, IM's 'identify' command, tells the found RAW encoding that is used..

To understand the advantages of using DNG format please read:

<a href=http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/extend.displayTab2.html?promoid=DTEHA>adobe RAW2DNG converter</a>

-Gumbie02151

Re: RAW files support in ImageMagick/alfresco

mrogers — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:40:48 GMT

I spotted ALF-17812 recently. Looks like RAW files are in 4.2.