Question: The output of my company scanner is TIFF. I understand companies and imaging professional recommend converting to PDF. What are the main advantages of converting scanned documents to PDF from TIFF?
Answer: As you noted, it has become typical for many corporations to convert their scanned documents into searchable PDFs. However, this is not always the answer, for instance, if other elements of your workflow rely on TIFF output, it may be necessary to continue to utilize TIFFs. With that being said, if given the choice, it would be more advantageous to convert TIFFs into PDFs. PDF are readily viewable on any PC with Adobe’s free reader. The nature of PDFs allow the documents to be uniformly printed and viewed. Furthermore, PDFs can be equipped with an OCR layer to make your documents text-searchable. OCR converts image documents into text searchable PDF files. Searchable files created by OCR, are far more manageable and users are more efficient.
PdfCompressor converts TIFF documents into searchable PDFs. If you are interested in testing your scanned files, I have copied the link below.
