> I am converting text images that contain 7 numbers in tiff format, and
> then read them as stack.
>
> I have noticed that when images are converted one after another in
> 8-bits images, all of them have 7 integers values shown in the
> histogram. However, on the histogram of the all stack, values become
> floating values.
>
> Is this because when reading the histogram of a stack, ImageJ allows
> for the use of floating numbers but not when reading the histogram of
> a single slice?
This is because the bin width of the stack histogram is not 1. You can
work around this problem by running the Histogram command by pressing
alt-h and then setting "X Min" to 0 and "X Max" to 256 in the
"Histogram" dialog.
-wayne