---
title: "TiffCompression"
canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/api/python/enums/tiff-compression/"
md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/api/python/enums/tiff-compression.md"
last_updated: "2026-06-09T10:32:42.528Z"
description: "Specifies the TIFF compression when saving images in TIFF format."
---

Specifies the TIFF compression when saving images in TIFF format.

```python

from nutrient_sdk import TiffCompression

```

## Values

| Name                                            | Value   | Description                                                                                                                               |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_UNKNOWN`      | `0`     | Unknown compression.                                                                                                                      |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_NONE`         | `1`     | No compression.                                                                                                                           |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_RLE`          | `2`     | CCITT modified Huffman RLE                                                                                                                |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_CCITT3`       | `3`     | CCITT Group 3 fax encoding                                                                                                                |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_CCITT4`       | `4`     | CCITT Group 4 fax encoding                                                                                                                |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_LZW`          | `5`     | Lempel-Ziv and Welch                                                                                                                      |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_OJPEG`        | `6`     |!6.0 JPEG                                                                                                                                 |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_JPEG`         | `7`     | %JPEG DCT compression                                                                                                                     |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_ADOBEDEFLATE` | `8`     | Deflate compression, as recognized by Adobe.                                                                                              |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_NEXT`         | `32766` | NeXT 2-bit RLE                                                                                                                            |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_CCITTRLEW`    | `32771` | \#1 w/ word alignment                                                                                                                     |

| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_PACKBITS`     | `32773` | Macintosh RLE                                                                                                                             |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_THUNDERSCAN`  | `32809` | ThunderScan RLE                                                                                                                           |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_DEFLATE`      | `32946` | Deflate compression.                                                                                                                      |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_AUTO`         | `65536` | Uses CCITT4 compression for bitonal image and LZW for others. TiffCompressionAUTO allows to mix compression in a multipage tiff document. |
| `TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_AUTO2`        | `65537` | Beta: do not use yet.                                                                                                                     |

## Usage Example

```python

from nutrient_sdk import TiffCompression

# Access enum values

value = TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_UNKNOWN
print(f"Value: {value}")  # Output: Value: TiffCompression.TIFF_COMPRESSION_UNKNOWN

print(f"Integer value: {value.value}")  # Output: Integer value: 0

```

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