# How to abort vtkTIFFReader to read image files

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-abort-vtktiffreader-to-read-image-files/10376
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 4, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-abort-vtktiffreader-to-read-image-files/10376 "2023-01-04T02:54:38Z")
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### Author: ![tong\_yang](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/tong_yang/32/6355_2.png) [@tong\_yang](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/tong_yang)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-abort-vtktiffreader-to-read-image-files/10376/1 "2023-01-04T02:54:38Z")

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I want to interrupt the vtkTIFFReader reading process through multithreading. Because my image file is very large and the reading process takes a long time, users want to have a way to stop it.

So I would like to ask if there is such an interface or method in the vtk to implement this function.Thanks a lot.