TIFF
TIFF Compression Tag
The TIFF Tag 259 (0103₁₆) stores the information about the Compression method. The default value is 1 = no compression.

TIFF

Section Title: TIFF Compression Tag
Table Section Text: The TIFF Tag 259 (0103₁₆) stores the information about the Compression method. The default value is 1 = no compression.

Tag value	Compression scheme	Lossy/lossless	Specification	Description	Image types	Usage and support

000116	None	Lossless	TIFF 6.0	Baseline TIFF	All	Common

000216	CCITT Group 3 1-Dimensional Modified Huffman run-length encoding (a.k.a. MH or CCITT 1D)	Lossless	TIFF 6.0	Baseline TIFF; compression based on ITU-T T.4	Black and white	Common

000316	CCITT T.4 bi-level encoding as specified in section 4, Coding, of ITU-T Recommendation T.4 (a.k.a. CCITT Group 3 fax encoding or CCITT Group 3 2D)	Lossless	TIFF 6.0	TIFF 6.0 Extensions; compression based on ITU-T T.4	Black and white	Common

000416	CCITT T.6 bi-level encoding as specified in section 2 of ITU-T Recommendation T.6 (a.k.a. CCITT Group 4 fax encoding)	Lossless	TIFF 6.0	TIFF 6.0 extensions; compression based on ITU-T T.6	Black and white	Common

000516	Lempel–Ziv–Welch	Lossless	TIFF 6.0	TIFF 6.0 Extensions; first defined in TIFF 5 (1988); a patented compression algorithm, but the patents expired in 2003 and 2004	All	Common

000616	JPEG (obsolete 'old-style' JPEG, later superseded in Technote2)	Lossy	TIFF 6.0	TIFF 6.0 Extensions; first defined in TIFF 6 (1992); obsolete, should never be written.	Continuous-tone	Rare

000716	JPEG ('new-style' JPEG)	Lossy	TIFF 6 Technote2 (1995)	Technote2 supersedes old-style JPEG compression; it is a TIFF 6.0 extension.	Continuous-tone	Uncommon

000816	Deflate, Adobe variant (official)	Lossless	TIFF Specification Supplement 2 (2002)	Adobe Photoshop TIFF Technical Notes; it is a TIFF 6.0 extension.	All	Uncommon

000916	JBIG, per ITU-T T.85	Lossless	TIFF-FX	RFC 2301 (1998), RFC 3949 (2005)	Black and white	Rare

000A16	JBIG, per ITU-T T.43	Lossless	TIFF-FX	RFC 2301 (1998), RFC 3949 (2005)	Black and white	Rare

7FFE16	NeXT RLE 2-bit greyscale encoding	Proprietary	Rare

800516	PackBits (a.k.a. Macintosh RLE)	Lossless	TIFF 6.0	Baseline TIFF	All	Rare

802916	ThunderScan RLE 4-bit encoding	Proprietary	Black and white	Rare

807F16	RasterPadding in continuous tone (CT) or monochrome picture (MP)	Lossless	TIFF/IT (1998, 2004)	ISO 12639	Rare

808016	RLE for line work (LW)	Lossless	TIFF/IT (1998, 2004)	ISO 12639	Rare

808116	RLE for high-resolution continuous-tone (HC)	Lossless	TIFF/IT (1998, 2004)	ISO 12639	Rare

808216	RLE for binary line work (BL)	Lossless	TIFF/IT (1998, 2004)	ISO 12639	Rare

80B216	Deflate, PKZIP variant (obsolete)	Lossless	Proprietary	According to TIFF Specification Supplement 2 it should be considered obsolete but reading is recommended	All	Uncommon

80B316	Kodak DCS	Proprietary	Rare

876516	JBIG	LibTiff	Black and white	Rare

879816	JPEG2000	Proprietary	Includes a complete JP2 file inside a TIFF file, not recommended. Introduced by Leadtools.	Uncommon

879916	Nikon NEF Compressed	Proprietary	Rare

879B16	JBIG2	Lossless, lossy	TIFF-FX Extension Set 1.0	Abandoned IETF draft from 2001	Rare

Sentence(s)

LW files use a compression scheme known as Run-length encoding for LW (Compression tag value is 8080₁₆).

final_sentence: LW files use a compression scheme known as Run-length encoding for LW (Compression tag value is 8080₁₆).