TIFF to JPG Converter
Convert TIFF images to JPG format. Make scanned documents and print files web-friendly with universal compatibility. Batch supported.
TIFF vs JPG: what changes
- JPG files are usually much smaller than TIFF, so this is a good way to save space or speed up a page.
- TIFF supports transparency but JPG does not, so any transparent areas are filled with a white background.
- JPG opens everywhere, including older phones, email clients and apps that can't handle TIFF.
| TIFF | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tagged Image File Format | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Type | raster | raster |
| Compression | both | lossy |
| Transparency | Yes | No |
| Animation | No | No |
| Best for | print, scanning, archival | photos, web images |
| Browser support | niche | universal |
Written by Anil Gautam · Updated
Which browsers can convert TIFF to JPG?
Every major browser can convert TIFF files here. Safari reads TIFF with its own decoder. Chrome, Edge and Firefox cannot, so for those browsers the converter loads a small TIFF decoder (UTIF.js) from this site the first time you convert a TIFF and decodes the image in the page. Either way the file stays on your device.
The decoder reads the compressions scanners and editors commonly use, including uncompressed, LZW and Deflate TIFFs. If a card still reports "Could not convert this file", the file may use an unusual compression; saving the scan as JPG from your scanner software, or opening it in Paint and saving it as JPEG, gets around that. Once the scans are JPG files, tools such as Image Compressor and JPG to PDF can take them further.
What happens to multi-page, CMYK and 16-bit TIFFs?
TIFF is a container with many options, and a browser canvas supports only some of them. Each file produces a single image, so a multi-page TIFF such as a fax or a stack of scanned pages yields only one page. The canvas also works in 8-bit RGB: 16-bit scans lose their extra tonal precision, and CMYK print files are converted to RGB, which can shift some colours.
DPI settings and other tags are not copied, though the pixel dimensions stay the same. An A4 page scanned at 300 DPI is 2480 x 3508 pixels, which is 8,699,840 pixels or 26,099,520 bytes (24.89 MB) as uncompressed 8-bit RGB. Raw sizes like that are why scans arrive as huge TIFFs and why JPG shrinks them so much. Black-and-white document scans saved as 1-bit TIFF are the exception: they are already tiny, and as JPG they can come out larger.
How do you prepare scanned documents for upload?
The quality slider runs from 50% to 100% and starts at 92%. Small print is where JPG compression shows first, so zoom in on text before you lower the setting. To combine several converted pages into one document, put the JPGs through JPG to PDF, and if a portal caps uploads in KB, Compress Image to 200KB aims for a size that fits.
Moving the slider and pressing Convert to JPG again re-encodes every file from the original TIFF. For pages of small text, TIFF to PNG Converter keeps letters crisp without JPG's smudges. Converted files keep their base names with a .jpg ending, so scan_001.tif becomes scan_001.jpg, and a batch downloads as tiff-to-jpg-converted.zip.