Convert TIFFs from LZW to ZIP format in PowerShell

[ReadyPlayerOne]

I'm running PowerShell script that downloads a collection of tiff files and uploads them to an image repository as a nightly process. Currently, the tiff files use LZW format, and the program that exports them doesn't give an option for their output compression in ZIP format. The image repository allows annotations to be added to tiff files, but only if they use ZIP. I've read through the Command-line processing section of the site & searched through the forums but haven't found a command for this particular operation. I'd appreciate any help anyone could offer.

[fmw42]

ImageMagick command line

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convert image.tif -compress zip image.tif

see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... p#compress

If using ImageMagick 7, then change convert to magick.

[ReadyPlayerOne]

ImageMagick command line

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convert image.tif -compress zip image.tif

see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... p#compress

If using ImageMagick 7, then change convert to magick.

How would you iterate through a list of tiffs? I tried

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magick *.tif -compress zip *.tif

and got a blob error.

[GeeMack]

How would you iterate through a list of tiffs? I tried

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magick *.tif -compress zip *.tif

and got a blob error.

The "mogrify" tool might be a better choice for that. Maybe try something like this...

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magick mogrify -compress zip *.tif

That will read each *.tif file in the directory, recompress it with ZIP compression, and overwrite the input with an output file of the same name.

[fmw42]

How would you iterate through a list of tiffs? I tried

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magick *.tif -compress zip *.tif

and got a blob error.

You cannot use wildcards for both input and output with magick/convert. To process a folder of images, you need to use mogrify as per GeeMack's comment.