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Convert tiff image files
The print and scan format. Designed to be edited, not to be small. A flexible tagged container. It can hold raw uncompressed pixels, lossless compression, or several pages at once, with layers and alpha channels. That is the format you end up with when something needs to look the same on every screen, which is why it keeps turning up in scanning a document for professional printing. From here it can become PDF, PNG and JPG, and the conversions run on your own device, so the file is never uploaded anywhere.
At a glance
- Source
- TIFF
- Where it runs
- Your browser
- Cost
- Free, unlimited
- Account
- Not needed
Converter
Universal converter
Drop one or more tiff image files.
or select tiff image
Your file never leaves this browser
About the format
The print and scan format.
A flexible tagged container. It can hold raw uncompressed pixels, lossless compression, or several pages at once, with layers and alpha channels.
- Where it is good
- The reference format for scanners, printers and publishing
- Can carry multiple pages in a single file
- Lossless options that keep every last pixel of detail
- Where it falls short
- Very large files, especially uncompressed
- Overkill for anything on a screen
- A confusing format to open without the right software
- You will find it on
- Scanners, print shops, publishing, prepress
The thing people miss
A 300 DPI colour scan of one A4 page is around 25 MB as an uncompressed TIFF, and about 3 MB as a PDF.
Where it goes next
Scanning a document for professional printing
Real jobs
What people are actually doing with TIFF
Scanning a document for professional printing
A multi-page scan that needs to stay one file
Sending a design to a print shop that asks for TIFF
How to
Converting a TIFF file
- 01
Add your tiff image
Drag the file onto the drop zone, or tap to browse. Only one file is needed.
- 02
Pick what you want it to become
Every format this file can become is listed in the switchboard. Pick one and the converter opens with sensible defaults already set.
- 03
Download the result
Your converted file downloads straight to your device. Nothing was uploaded, so there is no file to delete from a server afterwards.
Also available
TIFF converts into
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Questions
TIFF conversion questions
How do I convert TIFF to another format?
Add your tiff image file to the drop zone, choose the target format, adjust the options if you want to, and press convert. The finished file downloads immediately.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
For most conversions, no. They run entirely inside your browser tab. The file is read from your device and the result is written back to your device.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no signup step, no email capture and no usage counter. Open the tool, convert the file, close the tab.
Will there be a watermark or a page limit?
Neither. On-device conversions produce a clean file with no branding and no cap on pages, size or number of files.