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Convert TIFF to PNG

Drop your TIFF files below. They are converted on your own device and never sent anywhere.

Convert to PNG when a scan or archival TIFF has to be viewed, emailed or uploaded somewhere, and it must not lose any quality on the way. It is converted by your own browser here, so the file is never uploaded.

Nothing is uploaded. Your files are read by this page and processed by your own processor. Open the Network tab and watch — you will not see them leave.

TIFF and PNG, and why you would move between them

TIFF is the format scanners, fax systems and print workflows have used for decades. It is lossless and flexible, which is exactly why it persists in those settings — and also why it is awkward everywhere else: no mainstream browser will display a TIFF, and plenty of modern software refuses it outright.

PNG is the natural destination when the file has to stay lossless. Every scanned page, contract and archival image converts across with no quality change at all, and the result opens in anything. Expect a smaller file too: PNG's compression is generally better than the uncompressed or LZW-compressed TIFFs that scanners tend to produce.

Things that catch people out

  • A TIFF can hold many images — the pages of a scanned document are usually stored as one multi-page TIFF. Only the first is converted, which is what every other converter does, but it means page two of a scan will not appear.
  • Neither format loses anything, so this conversion is exactly reversible in visual terms. Nothing is degraded.
  • Some TIFFs use compression schemes almost nothing supports, particularly old fax encodings. Those will fail to decode rather than convert badly, and will say so.
  • TIFFs from professional workflows may be CMYK rather than RGB. The conversion produces RGB, and colours will shift slightly, which matters if the file was colour-managed for print.

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Questions

Why will my browser not open a TIFF?

Chrome and Firefox have never supported TIFF, and only Safari displays it. TIFF predates the web and was designed for print and scanning, so browsers simply never adopted it. BriskFile decodes it on your device instead.

Will converting a scan to PNG lose quality?

No. Both formats are lossless, so every pixel comes across unchanged. The file size will usually drop, because PNG compresses more effectively than most scanner output.

How do I convert every page of a multi-page TIFF?

You cannot here — only the first image in the file is converted. A multi-page scan is better handled as a PDF, which is built for paged documents.

What BriskFile will not do to you

  • Your files never leave your device

    Every conversion runs in your browser. Open DevTools, watch the Network tab, and you will see no upload — because there is not one.

  • No account, no email, no watermark

    Nothing to sign up for and nothing stamped on your images. There is no step between choosing a file and getting it back.

  • No limits at the download button

    No daily cap, no file counter, no "upgrade to download". If the tool starts a job, it finishes it.

  • Checkable, not just claimed

    Open the Network tab and convert something — nothing goes out. Or load the page, disconnect, and watch it keep working: the tool is already on your machine, and your file never leaves it.