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TIFF to PNG Converter

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Convert a TIFF image to PNG free online. Drag, drop, and download instantly — the conversion runs entirely in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

Reviewed by the thecalcu.com team · Last updated July 22, 2026

Drag & drop a TIFF file here

or click to browse — max 20.00 MB, stays on your device

What is a TIFF to PNG?

A TIFF to PNG Converter decodes a TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image, a flexible format widely used in scanning, printing, and professional photography for its support of lossless, high-fidelity storage, and re-encodes it as PNG, a format that's universally viewable in web browsers and everyday image software. Unlike JPG, PNG, and WebP, TIFF was never adopted as a native web format, so browsers can't display it directly; converting to PNG solves that compatibility gap.

This tool performs the decoding entirely in your browser using a dedicated JavaScript TIFF decoder library: no upload, no server round-trip. It pairs naturally with the BMP to PNG Converter and ICO to PNG Converter if you're standardizing a mix of legacy or specialized image formats into PNG.

Why Use a TIFF to PNG Converter?

Scanned documents, professional camera output, and archival images are often saved as TIFF for its lossless quality, but that same format can't be viewed in a browser, embedded on a website, or opened by many everyday tools without conversion. Converting to PNG preserves the lossless quality while making the image usable everywhere.

A concrete situation this solves: converting a scanned document or professional photo saved as TIFF into PNG so it can be viewed in a browser, embedded in a webpage, or shared with someone using standard photo software.

Who Should Use This Converter?

  • Anyone digitizing documents with a scanner that defaults to TIFF output, who needs a browser-viewable format.
  • Photographers converting TIFF master files into PNG for web use or general sharing without losing quality.
  • Developers and designers standardizing TIFF assets from print or professional workflows into web-compatible PNG.
  • Archivists converting TIFF images for viewing and distribution while keeping originals in their lossless source format.
  • Users working with multi-page scanned TIFFs who need to extract and convert individual pages one at a time.

What Insights Does the TIFF to PNG Converter Give You?

Once uploaded, the tool reports how many pages the TIFF file contains, a single scanned photo has one, while a multi-page scanned document might have dozens, each selectable from the Page dropdown.

The converted PNG preview and its file size update whenever you switch pages, letting you confirm each page decoded correctly before downloading it individually.

How to use this TIFF to PNG calculator

  1. Drag and drop a .tif or .tiff file onto the upload area, or click it to browse your device.
  2. Wait for the first page to convert automatically.
  3. If the file has multiple pages, choose the one you want from the Page dropdown.
  4. Click Download PNG to save the file, or Copy PNG to copy it directly to your clipboard.

Formula & Methodology

The decoder reads the TIFF's Image File Directory (IFD) structure to determine each page's dimensions, compression method, and color format, then decompresses the pixel data, handling common TIFF compression schemes including LZW, PackBits, and Fax Group 3/4, into a standard 8-bit RGBA bitmap. That bitmap is drawn onto an HTML canvas and exported losslessly via canvas.toBlob("image/png").

For example, a 2550×3300px scanned document page saved as an uncompressed TIFF (roughly 25MB) typically converts to a PNG in the 1–3MB range, since PNG's DEFLATE-based compression is far more space-efficient for scanned text and line art than raw, uncompressed pixel storage.

Frequently Asked Questions

It decodes a TIFF image, a flexible, often uncompressed format common in scanning, printing, and professional photography, and re-encodes it as a PNG, a format with much broader support in web browsers and everyday software.
The entire decoding and conversion runs in your browser using a dedicated JavaScript TIFF decoder, and the file never leaves your device. This makes the tool safe for scanned documents or professional images you'd rather not send to a third-party server.
Unlike JPG, PNG, or WebP, TIFF was never adopted as a standard web image format, so no major browser can decode or display a .tif file directly, attempting to open one usually just downloads the raw file. Converting to PNG makes the image viewable and usable in a browser.
If your TIFF contains multiple pages or frames, a Page dropdown appears after uploading, letting you select and convert each page individually to its own PNG file.
TIFF is frequently used for images that benefit from lossless storage, scanned text documents, professional photography masters, technical diagrams, so converting to PNG (also lossless) avoids introducing the compression artifacts that a JPG conversion would add.
Drag and drop your .tif or .tiff file onto the upload area, or click it to browse your device. Conversion starts automatically; if the file has multiple pages, choose which one to view first from the Page dropdown.
The underlying decoder supports the common TIFF compression methods, including uncompressed, LZW, PackBits, and Fax Group 3/4 (CCITT), covering the vast majority of TIFF files produced by scanners, cameras, and imaging software.
You can upload a file up to 20MB, since TIFF files, especially uncompressed ones, are often significantly larger than equivalent JPG or PNG files for the same image.
Yes, the Copy PNG button copies the converted image directly to your clipboard in supporting browsers, so you can paste it straight into another application. If your browser doesn't support clipboard image writes, use Download PNG instead.
No, both TIFF (in its common lossless forms) and PNG can represent an image with full fidelity, so the conversion doesn't discard any pixel data. If your source TIFF used a lossy compression variant, whatever detail was already lost there stays lost, but PNG introduces no further loss.
Flatbed and document scanners, professional cameras (as a RAW-adjacent master format), fax machines, and print-production software commonly default to or offer TIFF, since it's a long-established standard for archival-quality, uncompressed image storage.
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