iiif-tiler

A Java based static IIIF tile generator. Static IIIF Tiles can be stored on a web service and provide a zoomable service with a compatible IIIF image viewers. This is known as a level 0 image service.

Usage:

By default and without configuration the iiif-tiler will generate version 2.0 image tiles in the iiif directory. To run this program do the following:

1. Download the iiif-tiler.jar from the releases page.
2. Save the iiif-tiler.jar to a directory where you would like to store the image tiles
3. Drag an image on to the iiif-tiler.jar in the Finder or Windows interface.
4. This will generate the IIIF tiles in a iiif directory.

Alternatively from the command line you can run the following:

java -jar target/iiif-tiler.jar images/67352ccc-d1b0-11e1-89ae-279075081939.jpg

Options

This generates tiles that are compatible with IIIF Version 2 and Version 3.0. This can be configured from the command line by passing -version 3 parameter. A full list of parameters is below:

$ java -jar target/iiif-tiler.jar -help
usage: iiif-tiler
 -help                Show this help message
 -output <arg>        Directory where the IIIF images are generated. Default: iiif
 -identifier <arg>    The root of the identifier in the info.json. The filename directory is appended. Default: `http://localhost:8887/iiif/`
 -tile_size <arg>     set the tile size. Default is 1024
 -version <arg>       set the IIIF version. Default is 2.1.1 and options are 2 or 3
 -zoom_levels <arg>   set the number of zoom levels for this image. The default is 5

Releases

The releasable jar file with all of the dependencies is in target/iiif-tiler.jar. The basic code without dependencies is in target/iiif-tiler-$version.jar.

To release a new version to maven central create a new release on Github or run mvn clean deploy.