I prefer to backup ~/Documents to a tar file and move that tar file to a removable solid state drive. After many years of collecting data, my tar file is approximately 4 GB which is nice since I can collect about 3 of these on a 16 GB USB flash drive with room to spare.
Sometimes I create photos of monochrome documents or scans of those documents. These images seem to end up hard to predict sizes depending on what my phone camera or scanner does. If they are less than 1 MB they acceptable. If they are 2 MB or more than I get annoyed because these are a long term inconvenience for my tar backup process. I hope that my tar file never gets as large as 5 GB. Sometimes I run gimp to make the images smaller.
I have noticed that a 3 MB image file can be gimp cropped and exported at 40% to 50% quality and they can end up at 200 kb to 500 kB and the text is still legible. Gimp import, crop, export at 50%, and visually check legibility is too tedious and manual. It would be easier to just do a lossy compression. If I can do lossy compression on a bunch of images easily that would be even more convenient.
The default easy compression process on Ubuntu 20.04 is to select several images, right click, and pick a format from radio buttons labelled...
.zip
.tar.xz
.7z
This document says .xz is dangerous long term so I don't want that format. .zip and .7z do not seem to reduce the size much.
What is already installed by default on Ubuntu that is a lossy photo (or multiple photo) compression that is easy to use and convenient? Convenience implies GUI is preferred but it's not an absolute requirement but it would be a pain to have to type many file names or rename files to make wildcards work. Speed of compression and uncompression is not important since I will seldom access these files.