[GIS] How to open GeoTIFF header

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I have some GeoTiff files. I want read their header and save it to .txt

I've tried several programs, but none of them work properly. If u know some GeoTiff reader let me know 😉

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Assuming that @nickves is correct and you talking about the stored metadata, I would do this with gdal. Use gdalinfo and direct the output to a text file:

$: gdalinfo mygeotiff.tif > mygeotiff_metadata.txt 2>&1

The mygeotiff_metadata.txt file will be created (or overwritten if it already exists) in the directory from which you run the command. I'm using windows, but I'm pretty sure the syntax is the same on Linux. Don't know about iOS.

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Building on Garrett Hall suggestion, you can use gdal_translate, and a GeoTIFF format specific setting that prevents GDAL from writing any GeoTIFF tags to the output file. If the georeferencing information is stored externally to the original file as a world file then it can be easily applied to the new corrected TIF.

This assumes that you have QGIS installed and is written from a MS Windows standpoint:

Open a OSGeo4W command prompt - this should be found under the Quantum GIS start menu folder with a shortcut called 'OSGeo4W'
Enter the following command at the prompt. You can copy and paste, but note that the Ctrl+v shortcut doesn't work on the command prompt, you have to right click instead.

gdal_translate -co PROFILE=BASELINE ProblematicTIF CorrectedTIF

Replacing ProblematicTIF with the full path to your problematic TIF file, enclosed in double quotes, and CorrectedTIF with the full path to the corrected file that will be created, again in double quotes (there's no option to overwrite with this method unfortunately, a new file has to be created).

An example would be:

gdal_translate -co PROFILE=BASELINE "C:\GeoRefencing\Highfield_Campus.tif" "C:\GeoRefencing\Highfield_Campus_corrected.tif"

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you can use gdal: (you can change PNG to JPG or TIFF too)

    for %i in (*.tif) do gdal_translate -of PNG -scale -co worldfile=no %i %~cnvt.png

i hope it helps you...

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