TIFF Compressor
Make TIFF scans and photos smaller with lossless compression. Multi-page files keep every page.
Compress TIFF files without losing a pixel
TIFF files are large because scanners and cameras often save them with little or no compression. This TIFF compressor repacks the file with lossless Deflate (ZIP) compression: the picture is stored in fewer bytes, and every pixel of an 8-bit RGB image stays exactly the same. There is no quality slider, because there is nothing to trade away. Any other colour mode is saved as 8-bit RGB, so keep the original when the mode matters.
Add .tif or .tiff files, several at once, up to 40 MB each. Multi-page TIFFs keep every page, width and height never change, and the result is saved as a .tiff. A TIFF that cannot get smaller comes back unchanged.
How much smaller a TIFF gets
The saving depends on how the TIFF was saved, not on a setting:
| Your TIFF | What to expect | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Uncompressed scan or export | The biggest saving | Every byte was stored raw, so Deflate has plenty to pack. |
| Already saved with LZW or ZIP | Little or none | The data is already packed. If it cannot shrink, the original comes back. |
| Grayscale, black and white, CMYK or 16-bit | Comes back as 8-bit RGB | The colour mode is converted, so it is no longer the same file. |
Keep the original when the colour mode matters, for print, fax or archives. Compress a copy for sending.
When a TIFF is the wrong format to send
Lossless compression has a floor: a photo or scan still holds all its pixels, so a TIFF stays large. For a much smaller file to share by email or upload to a form, JPG is the format. Convert it with the image converter on the converters page, then run the result through the JPG compressor. Reaching a target such as 200 KB is done that way, because this page has no size setting.
If the scan is going into a PDF, shrink the PDF instead with the PDF compressor. For files of mixed formats, the image compressor takes them in one batch.
What a TIFF file is and why it gets so big is explained in what is a TIFF file. For print resolution, see what is image DPI.
How to reduce TIFF file size
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Drop your TIFF files
Add one or several .tif or .tiff files, up to 40 MB each.
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Check the note
There is nothing to set: the compression is lossless Deflate. A TIFF that is not 8-bit RGB, such as grayscale, black and white, CMYK or 16-bit, comes back as 8-bit RGB.
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Compress and download
Click Compress TIFF, compare the size before and after for each file, and download them.
TIFF compressor questions
No, not for an 8-bit RGB TIFF: lossless Deflate compression keeps every pixel. Grayscale, black and white, CMYK and 16-bit files come back as 8-bit RGB, so keep the original if the colour mode matters.
Yes. Every page of the file is kept and the result is one multi-page TIFF.
It was probably saved with LZW or ZIP compression already, so there is little left to pack. In that case the original comes back unchanged.
Not on this page: it keeps the file a TIFF with no size setting. Convert it to JPG with the image converter on the converters page, then use the JPG compressor.
No. Width and height stay the same, camera EXIF data is removed and the colour profile is kept. If the file carried an EXIF rotation, the picture is saved already turned.
No. Each file is compressed in memory on the server and sent straight back, and nothing is stored.