Batch Processing tif images? Converting .tif to .jpeg

Question

I'm trying to mass convert a handful of .tif files. I found phatch could look like a good candidiate but i'm running ubuntu 11.04. Looks like they don't have a .deb for my version.

Anyone have any alternatives to phatch or any other recommendations as to quickly batch convert tif to jpeg files.

I'm looking for a non-photoshop (ala wine) solution.

Answer 1

Easy. Install imagemagick $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick

It's simplest usage is: $ convert File.tif File.jpg

It is smart and goes by your file extension.

Now, for doing batch conversions, we shall use a loop.

cd into the directory where your tif files are.

then: $ for f in *.tif; do echo "Converting $f"; convert "$f" "$(basename "$f" .tif).jpg"; done

That should do it!

Also, once you convert all of the files and verify the new jpg's integrity, just run rm *.tif in that directory to delete all your old .tif files. Be careful with asterisks though, don't add a space after the *, or you will delete all your files in the directory.

Tip: If you have a folder with subfolders that holds these images. You could use this for loop to find all .TIF files within that folder: for f in $(find -name *.tif); do ...; done

Answer 2

Imagemagick should be able to convert them. It is a package of commandline programs, if you are OK with that.

Part of that is convert -

man convert:

convert - convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.

Answer 3

If you prefer a GUI application, you can install Phatch through the normal repositories. Just open Ubuntu Software Center and search for it. I'm not on 11.04 anymore but I had it installed back then.