TIFF is the standard format of the scanner, fax and print industries. It stores very high quality — usually lossless — and can hold multiple pages in one file, at the cost of large file sizes.
Typical use: Convert to TIFF when submitting scans or print-ready artwork where maximum fidelity is required.
About the TIFF format
TIFF, introduced by Aldus in 1986 and maintained by Adobe since, is the workhorse of the scanning, printing and archiving industries. It is a tag-based container: baseline RGB, CMYK, grayscale and indexed color, compressed with lossless LZW or ZIP (or not at all), with 8- or 16-bit depth and even multiple pages in a single file. A scanned contract or a print-ready magazine page lives in TIFF.
Its historical weakness is dialect fragmentation: the tag system is so flexible that exotic TIFFs — GeoTIFFs, fax TIFFs, certain 16-bit CMYK variants — still trip up careless readers. Files are huge, and no browser displays TIFF natively, so it never escaped its professional niches.
Strengths
- ✓ Lossless with up to 16-bit-per-channel depth
- ✓ Multipage support — one file, many scans
- ✓ CMYK and print-industry color handling
- ✓ Rich, extensible tag metadata for archiving
Limitations
- ✗ Very large files, even compressed
- ✗ Dialect fragmentation trips up simple readers
- ✗ No native browser display
- Compression
- Lossless (LZW/ZIP) or none
- Transparency
- Supported (alpha channel)
- Animation
- Not supported
- Metadata
- Rich tag system (EXIF, GeoTIFF)
- Best for
- Print, scanning, archival
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Frequently asked questions
What is a TIFF file?
TIFF is the standard format of the scanner, fax and print industries. It stores very high quality — usually lossless — and can hold multiple pages in one file, at the cost of large file sizes.
How do I convert TIFF files online?
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Is it safe to convert TIFF files here?
Yes. Every conversion is performed by your own device inside the browser — files never leave for a server, and the page keeps working even offline.
Which formats can TIFF convert to?
This page lists all 59 directions across documents, images, audio, video, spreadsheets and archives — each one is its own free converter page.