Convert TIFF to PNG

Converting TIFF to PNG is worth doing when the destination matters more than the source. TIFF is built for scanning and print workflows, often multi-page and very large. PNG is built for screenshots, logos and anything needing sharp edges or transparency. Which one you want depends entirely on where the image is going next.

Choose PNG when the scan must not lose anything, for example a document that will be read by OCR afterwards or artwork heading for print. Files stay large but every pixel is preserved exactly, and JPG artefacts around text can measurably reduce OCR accuracy.

TIFF files frequently contain more than one page, which is common with scans. Since PNG holds a single image, each page becomes its own file rather than being combined.

Compatibility is usually the whole reason for this conversion. TIFF is efficient but poorly supported, and plenty of websites, form portals and older applications reject it outright, while PNG is accepted essentially everywhere.

PNG is the natural destination from another lossless format. Every pixel survives exactly, and because PNG actually compresses where formats like BMP do not, the file usually shrinks considerably at the same time. This is the conversion with no downside.

TIFF can hold several images in one file and can use any of a number of internal compression schemes. Each is unpacked in turn, so a multi-page scan produces one output per page rather than a single merged image.

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