Shrink a scanned page or a print-ready TIFF into a JPG anyone can open and send.
TIFF is what scanners and print workflows produce: faithful, huge, and often too heavy to send anywhere.
Uncompressed TIFF stores every pixel in full, so a single scanned page at 600 dpi easily passes 50 MB. The same page as a JPG is a couple of megabytes and looks the same on a screen. That is the difference between an attachment that sends and one that bounces off a mailbox limit.
Browsers do not display a TIFF, and many mail clients, phone galleries, CMS upload forms and marketplace listings reject it. A JPG opens in every one of them, including the older machines that print shops and offices still run.
A folder of scanned invoices, ID copies or print files kept as TIFF multiplies the space it needs. Converting the finished ones to JPG keeps them readable for years and makes a backup or an email attachment practical again.
A TIFF can carry several pages and a print colour profile — neither fits through a JPG untouched.
A multi-page TIFF — a scanned contract, a fax, a document straight from an office scanner — holds several images in one file. The converter reads page one and returns a single JPG. Nothing after it is included, so split the pages in a document tool first if you need the rest.
Print TIFFs are often stored in CMYK or in a wide-gamut profile, which is why they can look muddy or oversaturated in a viewer that ignores it. The conversion goes to ordinary sRGB, so the JPG looks correct on a phone, a browser and a projector. Very saturated colours may shift slightly at that step.
JPG has no alpha channel, so a TIFF with a transparent area is painted onto the background colour — white unless you choose black. Extra channels and layer data that Photoshop-style TIFFs can carry are not written into the result either: what comes out is one flat picture.
Quality 82 is fine for a screen copy of a scan; 90 and above is worth it for text that will be re-read after printing. Below 60 the letters in a scanned page start to blur into their background. Keep the TIFF as the master if you expect to convert again later.
Three steps, and no page-count surprises afterwards.
Drag it onto the box, click to choose, or paste it with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac). Both .tif and .tiff work, up to 25 MB per file. A bigger file has to be split or downsampled in a scanner or editor first.
Leave quality at 82 for a scan that only has to be read on screen and raise it for print. The width field is the bigger lever: a scan at 3000 px wide is more than any form needs, and setting 1600 px cuts the file before the encoder even starts.
The preview shows the result with both weights and the percentage saved. Check that the text is still readable, lower or raise the quality once if needed, then download — the original TIFF stays untouched on your device.
Scans and print files need a little more care than a phone photo.
If the TIFF has more than one page, only page one is converted and the rest never reaches you. Open the file in a viewer that shows the page count, split it into single-page files if the other pages matter, then convert each one.
A 600 dpi scan of an A4 page holds roughly 5000 × 7000 pixels — far more than a screen can show and about 35 times what a form needs. Set a width around 1600 px and the JPG becomes small and sharp instead of large and resampled by whoever opens it. The compression tool does the same job after the fact.
A JPG of a scan is a copy, not a master: every re-save costs a little sharpness in the lettering. Archive the TIFF, or keep a lossless copy from the TIFF to PNG converter, and export the JPG from that whenever you need a lighter file. For line art and documents, PNG is often the better web copy too.
Yes. There is no account, no payment, no trial and no watermark on the JPG, and you can convert as many files as you need. A short rate limit keeps the server available for everyone else.
Only the first page is converted. A multi-page TIFF keeps a sequence of images inside one file, while a JPG is a single picture, so pages two and beyond have no place to go. Split the document into single-page files in a PDF or document tool first if you need the rest.
Scanned and print TIFFs are often stored in CMYK or in a wide-gamut profile. The conversion renders them in ordinary sRGB, which is what screens expect, so very saturated or deep colours can shift a little. It also applies any rotation tag and drops the embedded profile, camera data and remaining metadata.
Up to 25 MB per file and 50 megapixels as an image. A full-page scan at 600 dpi can exceed both, so downsample it to 300 dpi or a width around 2500 px in your scanner software before uploading — that single step usually saves more than any quality setting.
Files are processed on our server and not stored. The TIFF is decoded and converted as it arrives and only the finished JPG is sent back to your browser.
