TIFF Compressor & Converter

Simple TIFF compressor that converts TIFF files to black & white and compresses TIFF files using Group 4 (CCITT T.6) compression.

Libraries

• pillow - a python imaging library
• tkinter - a python library for building cross-platform GUI applications
• customtkinter - a modern and customizable python UI-library based on tkinter
• pyinstaller - a tool that packages python applications and their dependencies into a single executable file

Building the application

1. Install the libraries using pip:

   pip install pillow tkinter customtkinter pyinstaller

2. Build the executable:

   pyinstaller --noconfirm --onedir --windowed --add-data="C:\Users\<username>\path\to\site-packages\customtkinter":. .\tiffbwcompressor.py

• Use pip show customtkinter to find the path to customtkinter's directory.

3. The executable will be located in .\dist\tiffbwcompressor\