Change TIFF to JPG in your browser

Drop a .tif or .tiff file on this page and you get a JPG back, made in your browser, so the scan never leaves your device. The two endings are one format, so going from TIF to JPG works exactly like TIFF to JPG.

A TIFF is what scanners and archives make: large, detailed and often refused by email, upload forms and web browsers. A JPG opens almost everywhere and is usually much smaller, which is why people change TIFF to JPG before they send a scan. Our guide to what a TIFF file is explains why scanners still make them.

JPEG compresses the picture: the file gets smaller, often by a lot, and fine detail is lost, though the page still looks right at normal size. The size in pixels stays the same. JPEG has no transparency, so any see-through areas come out white, and details stored with the picture, such as the camera or the date, are not copied into the JPG.

Your own files will differ: the more detail on a page, the bigger the JPG, and a TIFF that is already compressed shrinks less. Stored with lossless LZW compression, the same page was about 1.1 MB as a TIFF and still 779 KB as a JPG. In our test the JPG also left out the 300 DPI note, so a program may report 72 DPI and a larger print size. The size in pixels is unchanged; only that note is gone.

For a drawing, a chart or a screenshot where every pixel must stay exact, convert TIFF to PNG instead: PNG loses nothing, in a bigger file. When to send a JPG and when a PNG explains the choice.

One TIFF can hold several pages, as a scanned letter or a fax often does. Before you convert, the page says how many pages your file has. Every page is converted into its own JPG, and you get them together in a ZIP named after the file. In our test, a three-page letter.tif came back as letter.zip, holding letter-p001.jpg, letter-p002.jpg and letter-p003.jpg.

The one limit is your browser’s memory. A TIFF with more pages than it can hold at once is cut short, and the page tells you before you convert how many pages fit and how many are left out. If the scan should stay one document, convert TIFF to PDF: every page goes into a single PDF, in order.

To batch convert TIFF to JPG, select every file in the folder, or drag them onto the page. Up to 100 files go in one batch. Past that, the page keeps the first 100 and says so, and anything that is not a TIFF is set aside with a note.

Your device works through them in turn, every one at the same Image quality. Each JPG takes its TIFF’s name, so invoice-04.tif comes back as invoice-04.jpg. Save the JPGs singly, or press Download all (ZIP) for one file holding them all; a TIFF of several pages arrives inside it as a ZIP of its own.

Need the other direction? Convert JPG to TIFF when a printer or an archive asks for TIFF. Other pictures that will not open have pages of their own: convert WebP to JPG for a picture saved from a website, or convert SVG to JPG for a logo or a drawing.