How to use this TIFF to JPG converter
- Add your .tif or .tiff files to the dropzone, or press Browse files to select them.
- Set the JPG quality, keep it at 92% or above for anything containing text.
- Press Convert to JPG. If your browser cannot decode TIFF, the status line explains why immediately.
- Check the reported size reduction, which is usually very large.
- Save each JPG, or download the batch as a single ZIP archive.
What this page offers
- Turns archive-grade scans into files small enough to email or upload.
- Accepts both .tif and .tiff, the two extensions used interchangeably for the format.
- Raises the per-file ceiling to 50 MB so realistic scanner output fits.
- Reports honestly when the browser lacks a TIFF decoder instead of producing nothing.
- Fills any transparency with a colour you choose, since JPEG has no alpha channel.
- Never uploads the document, which matters for contracts, records and legal scans.
What TIFF is for, and why it becomes a problem
TIFF was designed as an archival and print format, and it is very good at that job. It can store images losslessly, hold multiple pages in one file, carry sixteen bits per colour channel, and record CMYK separations for a printing press. Museums, libraries, medical imaging systems and prepress workflows all rely on it for exactly those reasons.
None of that flexibility helps when you need to email a scan or attach one to a web form. A single lossless TIFF page can run to fifty megabytes, and web browsers deliberately do not support the format. It has too many variants, several of which use compression schemes no browser ships. Converting TIFF to JPG produces a file typically a fiftieth of the size that opens absolutely anywhere.
Where these files come from
- Office and library scanners set to archival quality output.
- Fax servers and document management systems, many of which still store pages as TIFF.
- Prepress and printing suppliers delivering artwork proofs.
- Scientific instruments and microscopes that write uncompressed image stacks.
- Legal and land registry archives, where TIFF has been the standard for decades.
An honest word about browser support
TIFF is not part of the web platform. Safari decodes it because macOS and iOS provide a system-level decoder that the browser can call. Chrome, Edge and Firefox include no TIFF decoder at all, on any operating system, so a page that runs entirely in the browser has nothing to work with there.
This tool checks and tells you rather than spinning indefinitely. If your browser cannot decode TIFF, the practical routes are to open this page in Safari, or to re-export the file as PNG or JPEG from whatever produced it. Many scanner drivers offer JPEG output directly in their settings, which avoids the problem entirely for future scans.
Multi-page files and quality choices
A TIFF can hold an entire scanned document in one file. A browser decoding such a file presents the first page, and that is what gets converted here. For a full multi-page document, exporting to PDF from the original application preserves every page and is usually the better route.
On quality, scanned text is the demanding case. Sharp black-on-white edges are precisely where JPEG artefacts appear first, showing as a faint grey shimmer around letters. Keep the slider at 92% or above for documents; photographic scans of prints and negatives look excellent from about 85% and produce noticeably smaller files.
Why local processing matters here
The documents people convert from TIFF are rarely trivial. They are contracts, deeds, medical records, identity papers and archive material. This page never transmits any of it. The file is decoded by your device, redrawn onto a canvas and encoded as JPEG in the memory of this tab, so no third party ever holds a copy. The same applies to the BMP to JPG converter and the PDF to JPG tool, which together cover most scanning workflows.