Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more G4 file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to vips in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.g4 -c "convert to vips" (how).
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Let your AI agent convert G4 to VIPS
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the G4 files in my Downloads folder to VIPS”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.g4 -c "convert to vips"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert G4 to VIPS?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.g4 -c "convert to vips" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
