Uncompressing TIFF files directly in Python

[Paul Rubin]

"sophie_newbie" <paulgeeleher at gmail.com> writes:
> I need to convert tiff images downloaded from uspto.gov to pdf, these
> images are compressed using G4, so I dunno if anyone knows of a method
> of doing this witout the os call! Surely there is a utility out there
> somewhere?

There's a libtiff library callable from C.  Maybe someone has written
Python wrappers for it; if not, maybe you can become that someone.