How it works
Complete the job in three clear steps
- Choose a readable TIFF scan.
- Create editable plain text in temporary browser memory.
- Review and download the new file.
Private browser TIFF tool
TIFF to Text OCR
Recognize English text across TIFF pages with local Tesseract OCR and download plain text.
Free to use Your source file and decoded pixels stay in this browser. Lucaden does not upload them to a conversion API.
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Important
Check the result before relying on it
Keep an untouched copy of important source files. Browser processing depends on available device memory, and you should inspect every downloaded result before deleting the original.
Practical details
What this Lucaden tool does
UTIF.js renders each TIFF image page before Tesseract.js recognizes visible English text.
OCR is probabilistic: review names, amounts, punctuation, and low-quality scans before using the result.
Included capabilities
- Multi-page TIFF decoding
- English OCR
- Progress reporting
- Plain-text download
Useful for
- Copy text from a TIFF scan
- Search an old fax
- Recover a typed document
- Prepare text for manual review
Questions
About this tool
Is my file uploaded?
No. TIFF decoding, image encoding, and document assembly run on this device.
Does it support multi-page TIFF files?
TIFF-to-image, PDF, and text routes process every decodable image page. Multi-page image results download as a ZIP.
Open-source foundations
Built transparently
Lucaden documents its standards sources, architectural references, and permissive runtime dependencies while keeping this workspace consistent with the Lucaden interface.