Getting the scale

Posted by Cspr on
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Dear user,

How do you get the scale of an image? For instance when you open an image taken with a microscope the meta-data displayed just above the image can say something like "36.74x36.74 micron" followed by (512 x 512 pixels). How can you get the micron information from inside java i.e. how do I get 36.74 or some magnitude of it returned from Java? I've tried the calibration for the image but no method seems to return it. Any suggestions?

Thanks