# Tiff width/height?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiff-width-height/130953>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 4, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiff-width-height/130953 "2008-03-04T19:41:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt\_neuburg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@matt\_neuburg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt_neuburg)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiff-width-height/130953/1 "2008-03-04T19:41:10Z")

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Does anyone have Ruby code for reading a TIFF image file’s width/height  
tags? Thx - m.

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**Author:** ![matt\_neuburg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@matt\_neuburg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt_neuburg)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiff-width-height/130953/2 "2008-03-06T09:55:56Z")

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matt neuburg wrote:

> Does anyone have Ruby code for reading a TIFF image file’s width/height  
> tags? Thx - m.

You can use MiniExiftool ([http://rubyforge.org/projects/miniexiftool](http://rubyforge.org/projects/miniexiftool))  
but  
it is maybe a little bit oversized for only get the image width an  
height.

Regards  
Jan

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**Author:** ![matt\_neuburg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@matt\_neuburg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt_neuburg)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiff-width-height/130953/3 "2008-03-06T11:30:11Z")

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TIFF is a bit hairy so it’s pretty hard to do this in a one-liner.  
Try EXIF Reader[1];

$ sudo gem install exifr  
…  
$ irb -rubygems

> > require ‘exifr’  
> > =\> true  
> > EXIFR::TIFF.new(‘some\_image.tif’).width  
> > =\> 269

[1] [http://exifr.rubyforge.org/](http://exifr.rubyforge.org/)

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**Author:** ![matt\_neuburg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@matt\_neuburg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt_neuburg)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiff-width-height/130953/4 "2008-03-09T05:56:02Z")

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Jan F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> matt neuburg wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have Ruby code for reading a TIFF image file’s width/height  
> > tags? Thx - m.
> 
> You can use MiniExiftool ([http://rubyforge.org/projects/miniexiftool](http://rubyforge.org/projects/miniexiftool)) but  
> it is maybe a little bit oversized for only get the image width an height.

Thanks! m.