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Re:Open-source could finally get the world’s microscopes spe... by ahns on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:55PM (#37740914)
:/ [tell me about it...](https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/svs/)
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Re:Open-source could finally get the world’s microscopes spe... by yread on Monday October 02, 2023 @02:13PM (#37742189)
Hah SVS is child's play compared to MRXS:

https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/openslide-users/2012-...

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Re:Open-source could finally get the world’s microscopes spe... by extraduder_ire on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:55PM (#37745563)
I'd hope imagemagick or some other program can at least get the data out into another format. I did not know about openslide before reading that mail, but I'll try to keep it in mind.

Here's hoping this eventually gets fixed in a similar sort of way the .mkv format "fixed" video.

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Re:Open-source could finally get the world’s microscopes spe... by klysm on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:08PM (#37745673)
I wasn’t going to namedrop in my original comment but oh my the horrors this format brings back.
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