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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+***************************************************************************
+    extractprojection.py
+    ---------------------
+    Date                 : September 2013
+    Copyright            : (C) 2013 by Alexander Bruy
+    Email                : alexander dot bruy at gmail dot com
+***************************************************************************
+*                                                                         *
+*   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  *
+*   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
+*   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
+*   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
+*                                                                         *
+***************************************************************************
+"""
+
+__author__ = 'Alexander Bruy'
+__date__ = 'September 2013'
+__copyright__ = '(C) 2013, Alexander Bruy'
+# This will get replaced with a git SHA1 when you do a git archive
+__revision__ = '$Format:%H$'
+
+##Input_file=raster
+##Create_prj_file=boolean False
+##[GDAL] Projections=group
+
+import os
+
+from osgeo import gdal, osr
+
+from processing.gdal.GdalUtils import GdalUtils
+
+
+raster = gdal.Open(unicode(Input_file))
+
+crs = raster.GetProjection()
+geotransform = raster.GetGeoTransform()
+
+raster = None
+
+outFileName = os.path.splitext(unicode(Input_file))[0]
+
+# create prj file requested and if projection available
+if crs != "" and Create_prj_file:
+  # convert CRS into ESRI format
+  tmp = osr.SpatialReference()
+  tmp.ImportFromWkt( crs )
+  tmp.MorphToESRI()
+  crs = tmp.ExportToWkt()
+  tmp = None
+
+  prj = open(outFileName + '.prj', 'wt')
+  prj.write( crs )
+  prj.close()
+
+# create wld file
+wld = open(outFileName + '.wld', 'wt')
+wld.write("%0.8f\n" % geotransform[1])
+wld.write("%0.8f\n" % geotransform[4])
+wld.write("%0.8f\n" % geotransform[2])
+wld.write("%0.8f\n" % geotransform[5])
+wld.write("%0.8f\n" % (geotransform[0] + 0.5 * geotransform[1] + 0.5 * geotransform[2]))
+wld.write("%0.8f\n" % (geotransform[3] + 0.5 * geotransform[4] + 0.5 * geotransform[5]))
+wld.close()