/*========================================================================= Program: GDCM (Grassroots DICOM). A DICOM library Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre All rights reserved. See Copyright.txt or http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/Copyright.html for details. This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the above copyright notice for more information. =========================================================================*/ /* * This example shows how one from C# context can extract a binary blob * and write out as a file. * This example is meant for pdf encapsulated file, but can be adapted for other type * of binary blob. * * DICOM file is: * ... * (0042,0010) ST (no value available) # 0, 0 DocumentTitle * (0042,0011) OB 25\50\44\46\2d\31\2e\32\20\0d\25\e2\e3\cf\d3\20\0d\31\30\20\30\20... # 40718, 1 EncapsulatedDocument * (0042,0012) LO [application/pdf] # 16, 1 MIMETypeOfEncapsulatedDocument * ... * * Usage: * $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/Projects/gdcm/debug-gcc/bin * $ mono bin/ExtractEncapsulatedFile.exe some_pdf_encapsulated.dcm */ using System; using gdcm; public class ExtractEncapsulatedFile { public static int Main(string[] args) { string file = args[0]; Reader reader = new Reader(); reader.SetFileName( file ); bool ret = reader.Read(); if( !ret ) { return 1; } File f = reader.GetFile(); DataSet ds = f.GetDataSet(); Tag tencapsulated_stream = new Tag(0x0042,0x0011); // Encapsulated Document if( !ds.FindDataElement( tencapsulated_stream ) ) { return 1; } // else DataElement de = ds.GetDataElement( tencapsulated_stream ); ByteValue bv = de.GetByteValue(); uint len = bv.GetLength(); byte[] encapsulated_stream = new byte[len]; bv.GetBuffer( encapsulated_stream, len ); // Write out the decompressed bytes //System.Console.WriteLine(image.toString()); using (System.IO.Stream stream = System.IO.File.Open(@"/tmp/dd.pdf", System.IO.FileMode.Create)) { System.IO.BinaryWriter writer = new System.IO.BinaryWriter(stream); writer.Write( encapsulated_stream ); } return 0; } }