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If I understand well the TIFF library only offers encode/decode but not raw read/write methods.
As TIFF is an image container that can support multiple encodings, IMO, it could be very useful to have direct read/write access to the encoded data stream. In this way for example a jpeg encoded image can be encapsulated in a TIFF container without decoding/encoding. The same is valid for CCITT or JBIG2 encodings.
This can also be very useful to extract images from PDF file and save them to TIFF without encoding/decoding. Or to make the inverse : import TIFF images to PDF files.