TIFF (tagged image file format) is a computer file format for storing raster graphic images, created in the 1980s with its last update on June 3rd, 1992. It is widely supported by image manipulation applications, publishing and layout applications, and scanning applications. Currently, Adobe Systems holds the copyright to the TIFF specification. TIFF is a popular format for high color-depth images, similar to JPEG or PNG. Because it is an image format, it is not inherently text searchable, which can make finding the document, or finding content within the document, very difficult.
Adlib PDF accepts TIFF as both an input and an output file format: TIFF can be converted into PDF and other output file types, and other files types can be converted to TIFF as well. While TIFF files are great for images, the text within those images remains unsearchable, making it hard to index and find specific files or content. Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, Adlib can render the text within TIFF files searchable when converting to PDF.
TIFF is also a popular format for archiving scanned images, but file sizes are often large and text within images remains unsearchable. Adlib can convert TIFF files to PDF/A, the ISO standard for archiving. PDF/A files have small file sizes so storage isn’t an issue, and the text can be made searchable using OCR software.
Overall, organizations can achieve a number of benefits by converting their TIFF documents to PDF with Adlib PDF:
Does your organization also deal with many other file types including DWG and HTML files? Find out which other file types Adlib can covert to PDF in this datasheet.
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