/**
   * Gets a list of <code>IIOImage</code> objects for an image file.
   *
   * @param imageFile input image file. It can be any of the supported formats, including TIFF,
   *     JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, JPEG, and PDF if GPL Ghostscript is installed
   * @return a list of <code>IIOImage</code> objects
   * @throws Exception
   */
  public static List<IIOImage> getIIOImageList(File imageFile) throws IOException {
    File workingTiffFile = null;

    ImageReader reader = null;
    ImageInputStream iis = null;

    try {
      // convert PDF to TIFF
      if (imageFile.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(".pdf")) {
        workingTiffFile = PdfUtilities.convertPdf2Tiff(imageFile);
        imageFile = workingTiffFile;
      }

      List<IIOImage> iioImageList = new ArrayList<IIOImage>();

      String imageFileName = imageFile.getName();
      String imageFormat = imageFileName.substring(imageFileName.lastIndexOf('.') + 1);
      if (imageFormat.matches("(pbm|pgm|ppm)")) {
        imageFormat = "pnm";
      } else if (imageFormat.equals("jp2")) {
        imageFormat = "jpeg2000";
      }
      Iterator<ImageReader> readers = ImageIO.getImageReadersByFormatName(imageFormat);
      reader = readers.next();

      if (reader == null) {
        throw new RuntimeException(
            "Need to install JAI Image I/O package.\nhttps://jai-imageio.dev.java.net");
      }

      iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(imageFile);
      reader.setInput(iis);

      int imageTotal = reader.getNumImages(true);

      for (int i = 0; i < imageTotal; i++) {
        //                IIOImage oimage = new IIOImage(reader.read(i), null,
        // reader.getImageMetadata(i));
        IIOImage oimage = reader.readAll(i, reader.getDefaultReadParam());
        iioImageList.add(oimage);
      }

      return iioImageList;
    } finally {
      try {
        if (iis != null) {
          iis.close();
        }
        if (reader != null) {
          reader.dispose();
        }
      } catch (Exception e) {
        // ignore
      }
      if (workingTiffFile != null && workingTiffFile.exists()) {
        workingTiffFile.delete();
      }
    }
  }
  /**
   * Creates a list of TIFF image files from an image file. It basically converts images of other
   * formats to TIFF format, or a multi-page TIFF image to multiple TIFF image files.
   *
   * @param imageFile input image file
   * @param index an index of the page; -1 means all pages, as in a multi-page TIFF image
   * @return a list of TIFF image files
   * @throws Exception
   */
  public static List<File> createTiffFiles(File imageFile, int index) throws IOException {
    List<File> tiffFiles = new ArrayList<File>();

    String imageFileName = imageFile.getName();
    String imageFormat = imageFileName.substring(imageFileName.lastIndexOf('.') + 1);

    Iterator<ImageReader> readers = ImageIO.getImageReadersByFormatName(imageFormat);
    ImageReader reader = readers.next();

    if (reader == null) {
      throw new RuntimeException(
          "Need to install JAI Image I/O package.\nhttps://jai-imageio.dev.java.net");
    }

    ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(imageFile);
    reader.setInput(iis);
    // Read the stream metadata
    //        IIOMetadata streamMetadata = reader.getStreamMetadata();

    // Set up the writeParam
    TIFFImageWriteParam tiffWriteParam = new TIFFImageWriteParam(Locale.US);
    tiffWriteParam.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_DISABLED);

    // Get tif writer and set output to file
    Iterator<ImageWriter> writers = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName(TIFF_FORMAT);
    ImageWriter writer = writers.next();

    // Read the stream metadata
    IIOMetadata streamMetadata = writer.getDefaultStreamMetadata(tiffWriteParam);

    int imageTotal = reader.getNumImages(true);

    for (int i = 0; i < imageTotal; i++) {
      // all if index == -1; otherwise, only index-th
      if (index == -1 || i == index) {
        //                BufferedImage bi = reader.read(i);
        //                IIOImage oimage = new IIOImage(bi, null, reader.getImageMetadata(i));
        IIOImage oimage = reader.readAll(i, reader.getDefaultReadParam());
        File tiffFile = File.createTempFile(OUTPUT_FILE_NAME, TIFF_EXT);
        ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(tiffFile);
        writer.setOutput(ios);
        writer.write(streamMetadata, oimage, tiffWriteParam);
        ios.close();
        tiffFiles.add(tiffFile);
      }
    }
    writer.dispose();
    reader.dispose();

    return tiffFiles;
  }