About the TIFF to JPG tool
Convert TIFF images to web-friendly JPGs. Note: browsers can't decode every TIFF variant natively — if yours won't open, export it as PNG first and we'll take it from there.
Conversion runs on your device. TIFF scans are frequently documents, and not uploading them is both faster and safer.
How to use it
- Add your TIFF files.
- Set the JPG quality.
- Download the results.
TIFF is an archive format, not a sharing format
TIFF is the standard for scanning, printing and photographic archives because it can store uncompressed, high-bit-depth data along with layers and multiple pages.
Those same properties make it impractical for email and the web: files run to tens of megabytes and most browsers cannot display them at all.
What the numbers look like
A 300 dpi A4 scan in uncompressed TIFF is commonly 25–30 MB. The same page as JPG at quality 85 usually falls between 500 KB and 2 MB.
For a document you are emailing, that difference is the whole point. For a photographic master you intend to edit later, keep the TIFF.
Common mistakes
- Converting your only archival copy and deleting the TIFF.
- Expecting a multi-page TIFF to convert whole — JPG holds one image, so pages become separate files.
- Using JPG for scanned text at low quality, where compression artefacts make small type hard to read.
Questions people ask
Will I lose quality?
Some, since JPG is lossy. At quality 90 the loss is imperceptible on screen while the file shrinks dramatically.
What about multi-page TIFFs?
Each page becomes its own JPG. To keep them together, convert to PDF instead.
Should I keep the TIFF?
If it is a scan of something important or a photographic master, yes. TIFF is the preservation copy.