---
name: "bioradtopgm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "netpbm"
version: "10.86.51-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bioradtopgm"
---

# bioradtopgm(1)

convert a Biorad confocal file into a PGM image

## NAME

bioradtopgm - convert a Biorad confocal file into a PGM image

## SYNOPSIS

**bioradtopgm** \[**-image#**\] \[*imagedata*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This program is part of **Netpbm**(1) .

**bioradtopgm** reads a Biorad confocal file as input and produces a PGM image as output.  If the resulting image is upside down, run it through **pamflip -tb**.

## OPTIONS

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably **-quiet**, see \
  Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), **bioradtopgm** recognizes the following command line option:

- **-image#**

  A Biorad image file may contain more than one image. With this option, you can specify which image to extract (only one at a time). The first image in the file has number zero. If no image number is supplied, only information about the image size and the number of images in the input is printed out. No output is produced.

## SEE ALSO

[**pamflip**(1)](/pamflip/1.md) , **pgm**(1)

## AUTHORS

Copyright (C) 1993 by Oliver Trepte

## DOCUMENT SOURCE

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

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  **http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/bioradtopgm.html**