Subject: Re: Reduce 12-bit greyscale image to 8-bit

From: [email-masked] (Mark A Vivino)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 19:24:42 GMT

In article  [email-masked] wrote:

>  
> We use a scanner to digitize our grey scale image.  The scanner will
> product 12-bit image.  But we would like to store and display the images
> in 8-bit.  Are there any good way to do so?
> Thank you.

If you have a mac, NIH Image has some nifty ways of doing this and handling
the conversion. NIH Image is public domain on zippy.nimh.nih.gov

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Mark Vivino
[email-masked]
Computational Biosciences and Engineering Lab
Image Processing Research Section  
National Institutes of Health