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I have a series of TIF files and would like to merge them into a Single TIF file

How do I do that?

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Use tiffcp

Usage: tiffcp [options] input... output.tiff

For instance:

tiffcp *.tiff output.tiff

And you will have a resulting multipage tiff

Then tiff2pdf (a wrapper for ghostscript)

Usage: tiff2pdf [options] input.tiff

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11135405/how-to-merge-many-tif-files-to-single-tif-file

A multipage tiff needs a multipage viewer, like qfaxreader, but if you convert to pdf, resulting file can be more easily seen with pdf viewers

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  • Multipage tifs can be viewed with evince.
    – To Do
    Jul 29, 2014 at 20:54
  • This seems to works very well. It's quick and doesn't hog RAM.
    – To Do
    Jul 29, 2014 at 21:00
  • Please precise that wou need to install libtiff-tools on ubuntu
    – Mehdi
    Jul 31, 2019 at 9:49
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convert can transform multiple files into a multi-page one:

convert *.tif all-in-one.tif
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    This works only for a small number of files. Somehow convert seems to try loading all the files in RAM at one go. If you have more than a few pages, my 4Gb of RAM get used up soon and then the PC becomes very slow, unusable in fact.
    – To Do
    Jul 29, 2014 at 20:54
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I'm resurrecting this old thread because my team ran into this issue in the last week.

Since we couldn't find any multi-platform tools (Windows and Linux) that could merge multiple TIFF files (including multi-page TIFFs) into a single multi-page TIFF file, we ended up coding a small tool by ourself using .NET Core 2 and C#. We called the project MergeTIFF and we released the whole source code on GitHub under GNU v3 license, so that everyone else can use it as well; we also released the binaries for Windows and Linux (32-bit and 64-bit).

For additional info and/or to download it take a look at the following resources that we published to better document the whole project:

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