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Hack&Lube · 02-25-2013, 04:18 PM

Several groups in our company are generating huge high resolution scans. The result are .TIFF/.TIF files that are up to 10GB in size.

This is starting to become a problem for our storage and backup routines and I'm looking into compressing these files.

I have read that LZW is a standard lossless compression for TIFF files but I can't find a decent application that will do this. Most forums are about Photoshop/Photography, etc. and using the LZW compression inside Photoshop but that's not an option for us.

Anybody know a good way to batch compress a large number of very large .TIFF files with a lossless compression like LZW?

02-25-2013, 04:18 PM	#1
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	How to compress .TIFF files? Several groups in our company are generating huge high resolution scans. The result are .TIFF/.TIF files that are up to 10GB in size. This is starting to become a problem for our storage and backup routines and I'm looking into compressing these files. I have read that LZW is a standard lossless compression for TIFF files but I can't find a decent application that will do this. Most forums are about Photoshop/Photography, etc. and using the LZW compression inside Photoshop but that's not an option for us. Anybody know a good way to batch compress a large number of very large .TIFF files with a lossless compression like LZW?