Tiler

Command-line tool for generating deepzoom tiles.

Environment

• Node.js v24.16.0 (LTS)
• npm 11.13.0

Last tested on Windows 11 in June 2026

Upgrade Information

Upgraded from Node.js v10.16.3 to support modern Node.js LTS versions.

Install

npm i -g @ou-imdt/tiler

Command to Sanitise File names

The following command expects a filepath to a directory, it will attempt to recursively parse through any subfolders sanitising file names by removing spaces, commas and setting them to lower-case.

This is to be used on a folder of source images before tile processing.

Command signature:

tiler sanitise [filepath]

Example:

tiler sanitise ./path/to/folder

Command to Process Tiles

Command signature:

tiler tile [input] [output] [format]

Command example 1:

tiler tile ./source-folder ./output-folder zoomify

Command example 2:

tiler tile ./source-folder ./output-folder deepzoom

Command example 3 (defaults to deepzoom):

tiler tile ./source-folder ./output-folder

Supported Formats

• deepzoom (default) - Microsoft Deep Zoom format
• zoomify - Zoomify format

Supported Image Formats

• JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
• PNG (.png)
• TIFF (.tiff)

Requirements

This tool requires:

• Node.js v24 (LTS)
• VIPS binaries (included)