TIFF compression & transfer

[GiJeet]

Hello, we have an app that scans documents into TIFF format and we
need to transfer them over the internet. If anyone knows of a SDK we
can use that can compress TIFFs on the fly or even if it can compress
them so they take up less space on the server, would be appreciated.

Actually any info on handling tiff files programatically would be
appreciated as I know very little about tiffs.

TIA

G

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

GiJeet,

Well, you would want to look at the classes in the System.Drawing
namespace for classes to work with manipulating the TIFF (specifically, the
Bitmap class).

To compress the image for storage, you can look at the classes in the
System.IO.Compression namespace.

- Nick

 

[not_a_commie]

Are you using any of the headers in a TIFF file? Is it nonstandard in
any way? If it's just an image convert it to JPG if it is a photo or
PNG if it is not. TIFF is old, lame, and on its way out as far as a
generic image format is concerned. The GIS folk do a lit with custom
TIFF layers. If that's not you, just convert it and be done. I can't
see any good reason to use a gzip compression on a TIFF.