---
name: "OrthancWSIDicomToTiff"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "orthanc-wsi"
version: "3.2+dfsg-7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/OrthancWSIDicomToTiff"
---

# OrthancWSIDicomToTiff(1)

Whole-slide imaging support for Orthanc

## NAME

OrthancWSIDicomToTiff - Whole-slide imaging support for Orthanc

## SYNOPSIS

**OrthancWSIDicomToTiff** \[*OPTION*\]... \[*INPUT*\] \[*OUTPUT*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Orthanc, lightweight, RESTful DICOM server for healthcare and medical research.

Convert a DICOM image for digital pathology stored in some Orthanc server as a standard hierarchical TIFF (whose tiles are all encoded using JPEG).

### Generic options:

- **--help**

  Display this help and exit

- **--version**

  Output version information and exit

- **--verbose**

  Be verbose in logs

### Options for the source DICOM image:

- **--orthanc** arg (=http://localhost:8042/)

  URL to the REST API of the target Orthanc server

- **--username** arg

  Username for the target Orthanc server

- **--password** arg

  Password for the target Orthanc server

- **--proxy** arg

  HTTP proxy to be used

- **--timeout** arg (=0)

  HTTP timeout (in seconds, 0 means no timeout)

- **--verify-peers** arg (=1)

  Enable the verification of the peers during HTTPS requests

- **--ca-certificates** arg

  Path to the CA (certification authority) certificates to validate peers in HTTPS requests

### Options for the target TIFF image:

- **--color** arg

  Color of the background for missing tiles (e.g. "255,0,0")

- **--reencode** arg

  Whether to re-encode each tile in JPEG (no transcoding, much slower) (Boolean)

- **--jpeg-quality** arg

  Set quality level for JPEG (0..100)

## AUTHOR

Written by Sebastien Jodogne \<s.jodogne@orthanc-labs.com\>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2012-2016 Sebastien Jodogne, Medical Physics Department, University Hospital of Liege (Belgium)\
 Copyright © 2017-2023 Osimis S.A. (Belgium)\
 Copyright © 2024-2025 Orthanc Team SRL (Belgium)\
 Copyright © 2021-2025 Sebastien Jodogne, ICTEAM UCLouvain (Belgium) Licensing AGPL: GNU AGPL version 3 or later \<http://gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html\>.\
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.