.. index:: Olympus FluoView FV1000
.. index:: .oib, .oif
Olympus FluoView FV1000
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Extensions: .oib, .oif
Owner: `Olympus `_
**Support**
BSD-licensed: |no|
Export: |no|
Officially Supported Versions: 1.0, 2.0
Reader: FV1000Reader (:bfreader:`Source Code `, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields `)
Freely Available Software:
- `FV-Viewer from Olympus `_
We currently have:
* an OIF specification document (v2.0.0.0, from 2008, in PDF)
* an FV1000 specification document (v1.0.0.0, from 2004 June 22, in PDF)
* older FV1000 specification documents (draft, in DOC and XLS)
* many FV1000 datasets
We would like to have:
* more OIB datasets (especially 2+ GB files)
* more FV1000 version 2 datasets
**Ratings**
Pixels: |Very good|
Metadata: |Very good|
Openness: |Good|
Presence: |Good|
Utility: |Very good|
**Additional Information**
**Please note that while we have specification documents for this
format, we are not able to distribute them to third parties.**
Bio-Formats uses a modified version of the `Apache Jakarta POI
`_ library to read OIB files.
OIF stands for "Original Imaging Format".
OIB stands for "Olympus Image Binary".
OIF is a multi-file format that includes an .oif file and a directory of
.tif, .roi, .pty, .lut, and .bmp files.
OIB is a single file format.
Commercial applications that support this format include:
* `Bitplane Imaris `_
* `SVI Huygens `_
.. seealso::
`Olympus FluoView Resource Center `_