“…In the past 15 years, both NIR and Raman imaging have been used in the analysis of pharmaceutical tablets to measure their active ingredient content [ 12 , 13 ], to characterize the size of components [ 14 , 15 ], to measure the coating thickness of film-coated tablets [ 16 , 17 ], to characterize the distribution of polymorphic forms of a drug [ 18 , 19 ], to detect changes after storage under stress [ 20 , 21 ], to recognize counterfeit products [ 22 , 23 ], to identify the components of a formulation [ 24 ] and to predict the dissolution profile of tablets [ 6 , 25 , 26 ]. It is evident that both techniques are capable of great things; however, the aforementioned works provide little help in deciding which imaging method is worth using to achieve a specific goal.…”