.. index:: Olympus FluoView FV1000
.. index:: .oib, .oif

Olympus FluoView FV1000
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Extensions: .oib, .oif


Owner: `Olympus <https://www.olympus-global.com>`_

**Support**


BSD-licensed: |no|

Export: |no|

Officially Supported Versions: 1.0, 2.0

Reader: FV1000Reader (:bfreader:`Source Code <FV1000Reader.java>`, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields </metadata/FV1000Reader>`)


Freely Available Software:

- `FV-Viewer from Olympus <https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/>`_


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) 
* `public sample images <https://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/images/Olympus-FluoView/>`__
* 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 POI 
<http://poi.apache.org/>`_ 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 <http://www.bitplane.com/>`_ 
* `SVI Huygens <https://svi.nl/>`_ 

.. seealso:: 
  `Olympus FluoView Resource Center <https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/>`_
