NDPI format support in OpenSlide - are there any forecasts?

[Adam Goode]

I am not sure if anyone is actively working on this. Benjamin would
probably know better. There have been some recent discussions about
workarounds on this list.

If you could donate a few weeks time of an experienced developer, it could
probably be done.

Adam
On Oct 7, 2012 9:08 AM, "Daniel Alievsky" <daniel at smartimtech.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> our company is using OpenSlide for reading extra-large images in our
> Simagis Live system (http://live.simagis.com/) - web-based Java
> application for storing and processing very large images.
> OpenSlide is a good system, allowing to read most popular formats, but
> right now we urgently need an ability to read .ndpi files (Hamamatsu
> format), and the last OpenSlide version failed to read them:
> http://openslide.cs.cmu.edu/download/openslide-testdata/Hamamatsu/
> (I used the last Windows binaries from http://openslide.org/download/.
> An attempt to access these 3 .ndpi-files shows a set of error messages
> boxes and fails.)
>
> It seems to be strange, because OpenSlide successfully reads another
> Hamamatsu VMS-format, not packed into a single file:
> http://openslide.cs.cmu.edu/download/openslide-testdata/Hamamatsu-vms/
> Unfortunately, I didn't find any ready C++ or Java library, allowing to
> read .ndpi-files, containing images larger than 65530x65530, and it is a
> problem - right now we need to read .ndpi-files of our customers with
> very large pictures.
>
> Could you tell us, are you planning to add the support of .ndpi-files
> into new OpenSlide versions in the nearest future? Are there any time
> forecasts here?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel Alievsky
> Smart Imaging Technologies company
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