A portable OpenSlide viewer for Windows: Smart Zoom Viewer

[Yves Sucaet]

Hi Martin,

A worthwhile effort. A couple of questions about the scope of this, if I may:

* Is SZI compatible with any of the other "open" formats like OME TIFF or
DICOM? 
* Is the format documented somewhere? 
* Do you have actual benchmark information about how many tiles can be served
from SZI in contrast to e.g. SVS or MRXS?

How about providing some C-code to OpenSlide so that the format can be read
directly via the same library?

Kind regards,

Yves Sucaet, PhD
Digital Pathology Manager VUB

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From: "Priv.-Doz. Dr. M. Weihrauch via openslide-users"
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To: openslide-users at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: A portable OpenSlide viewer for Windows: Smart Zoom Viewer

Dear OpenSliders:

I always needed a Windows viewer for many different slide formats...
Thus, in addition to our VM / Smart Zoom platform for Universities,
Smart In Media has now released a Windows-based viewer for OpenSlide and
SZI-images: The Smart Zoom Viewer. It's a portable software, so you can
just download the ZIP, unzip it to e. g. a USB stick and run the
"SmartZoomViewer.exe". You can view slides with the software or with
most of the browsers. If you find bugs, pls report either through the
contact form or to info at smartinmedia.com

As a thank-you to the OpenSlide community, we will currently*grant free
licenses to academics and researchers*.
You can download the software at http://www.smartzoom.com (go to Smart
Zoom Viewer).
To apply for a free license, you can fill out the form on the page and
we'll reply.

Greetings from Cologne

Martin

PS: SZI is the "Smart Zoom image format" defined by John Cupitt and me.
It's a way to present high resolution images very fast. To convert an
OpenSlide image to a SZI image, just use VIPS, e. g.:
vips dzsave bigimage.svs bigimage.szi --overlap=0
and it'll create an SZI, which can also be opened with our viewer


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