... labs, and so thefield of digital image processing has its roots in industry and academia. It wasnot that many years ago that digitizing a photo and saving it to a file on a computer was a time-consuming ... format:Type of image: These include black and white images, grayscale images,scans from documents, color images, color graphics, and special imagessuch as those using floating-point image data. ... may be difficult to use with standard image- processing tools.1.3 Image File FormatsWhile in this book we almost always consider image data as being already in the form of a two-dimensional array—ready...