[flipper35]

About that time here.

Quick question for you image processing peoples.

I have on one of our servers a bunch of tif files that are color and don't need to be. They could be black and white for the most part since it is mostly copies of faxes and such. I know, if the person that set it up originally had set the scanner to grey scale instead of color we wouldn't have this issue and we have gone back and forth on this for the last two years. Anyway, is there a good program to run a batch process to convert them to grey scale at least and compress them as a tif without renaming them? GIMP does great and I can get them down to about 1/10th the size but it renames them with .tiff from .TIF so that won't work without doing a batch process on the database or renaming them all again.

ImageJ looks promising but I wasn't sure on the scripting how to do some tests. Other ideas?

The guy that set this up was not me this time. The one that did has other issues such as lacking basic troubleshooting skills so I get to teach that as well. If he doesn't improve in those areas he will not be a problem here any longer.