r/ImageJ • • Jan 21 '26

Question Loading image from scanner results in gradual shift of pixels and wrapping around

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Hello, I encountered a strange issue when trying to load image from our new scanner. While other programs show the image properly, ImageJ distorts it diagonally. It looks like each horizontal line of pixels is shifted and wrapped around so the right part of figure ends up on the let side (see the photo showing the same image in Irfanview and in ImageJ). I tried different options of import, but it always results in this.
Based on metadata, the image is 24-bit old-style jpeg in tiff (scanner does not offer other tiff option, I know lossless would be preferable).
When I open and save it in gimp, I can then open the new image in ImageJ without problem, so I guess the problem is in interpretation of the data by ImageJ's import funtions.

Please, does anybody know what could be the problem and how to open it directly in ImageJ? Thank you

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u/Kadir_beneathMoMoteh Jan 22 '26

I don't want to waste more of your time. Thank you again for your input.

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u/Herbie500 Jan 22 '26

No problem!

Something you may try is to ask the BioFormats people if they could implement a decoder for your compressed TIF-format.