Multipage TIFF editor

Except regular formats graphic files (with the extension jpg, png, bmp, etc.), which usually contain one page of a graphic file; there are also graphic file formats that support multi-page images. One of them is the format with the tiff extension ( TaggedImageFileFormat). Exists as a three-letter extension of this format file tif, and four-letter tiff. In fact, this is the same file format, which, being originally four-letter, became three-letter because earlier versions Windows was mandatory requirement so that all file extensions of this operating system were three digits.

At work, sometimes I need to collect several graphic files into one file, for example, when I scan several pages of one common document (protocols, acts, etc.). In this case, you need to combine these scanned pages into one multi-page graphic file, and then send this file to all protocol participants for review and work. And send them lots of files individual pages protocol is not the best solution.

Also, sometimes it is necessary to scan a few pages of a book, or a small brochure, and then combine all these separate files pages into one file on your computer. To solve such problems, I usually use a small but very powerful and convenient program IrfanView. I have already briefly described its capabilities in the article

Downloading and installing IrfanView

IrfanView is free graphics program, small in size but with very powerful functionality. Considering that it also supports the Russian language, it has become for me one of the most necessary on the computer for viewing and editing photos. In fact, in symbiosis with the built-in Windows Paint, this is a small analogue of Photoshop.

You can download IrfanView from the official website of this program, or you can download version 4.38 from the direct link:

If you chose the first method, then on the official website click on the link indicated in the screenshot below (the site is in English, so I showed below how to download the latest version of the program):

You will be taken to the program download page, where you need to click the big green “Download Now” button.

After downloading, install the program (just click “Next” or “Next” when prompted to install the program). The program icon resembles a red, sprawled cat:

Russification of the IrfanView program

The Russian language for the program interface can be downloaded from the same site, in the left menu “IrfanView languages”

Then we find the Russian language in the list and download Installer:

Then we install the downloaded file, and IrfanView becomes a program in Russian, as shown below.

If for some reason the program does not switch to Russian automatically, then go to the “Options” menu, then “Change language”, and then select the Russian language, and click “OK”:

Creating a multi-page tif file

So, the program is installed, Russified, and now you can proceed directly to creating a multi-page tif file consisting of several consecutive images.

I have seven pages of a freshly scanned brochure that I need to condense into one tif graphic file. For now they are all located separately and look like this:

Open IrfanView, go to the “Tools” menu item, then “Multi-page images”, then “Create a multi-page TIFF file”:

A new window will open in which we will create our multi-page tiff from our individual files.

Click on the one on the right top button“Add images”, we find and select with the mouse all the files that we need to combine (in our example these are 7 files), and it is advisable to first number these files in the correct sequence so that in the created multi-page file they go in in the right order. After adding these files, they look like this:

Next, use the “Browse” button to specify the folder to save created file, and below we can immediately set the name of the resulting file (just do not change the tif extension). You can also use the ability to sort the source files, but if you initially numbered them correctly, then this is not necessary.

After all the preparations, click the “Create TIF file” button at the bottom left:

As a result, you create a multi-page tif file (in our example, a seven-page “Brochure.tif” file was created).

We open the resulting file “Brochure.tif”, and see that it contains exactly 7 pages. You can turn the pages of a multi-page file either using the buttons shown in the screenshot below, or using the key combinations “Ctrl” + “Page Down” ( next page), or “Ctrl” + “Page Up” (previous page).

So, today we downloaded and installed the wonderful IrfanView program, Russified it, and also learned how to create multi-page tiff files. If you have any additional questions, please ask them in the comments.

About the program Advanced TIFF Editor.

I'm a researcher. Working with literature is an integral part of the activity, including scanning, cleaning and recognizing texts in Cyrillic and Latin. I used to use MS Office 2003 which includes 2 good programs: Document Scanning and Document Imaging. Subsequent MS Office packages do not have them, and the analogues included in the packages are focused on photos and pictures, which did not suit me at all. Exists good program Abbyy FineReader, where such functions exist. But it stands... weightily. In addition, it’s very sophisticated, and paying thousands out of your own pocket, then using 20% ​​of the program’s capabilities is somehow not comme il faut. After spending several days searching on the Internet suitable programs, I found out: there are many programs, free, shareware and paid. I checked about two dozen “freebies” and stopped: for free and almost free, the quality is appropriate. Typical examples: scanning only the entire text, without the ability to adjust contrast, brightness, or highlight an area; Most don't have an Image Cleanup option; only some have the Text Recognition function; It is not possible to scan multi-page documents. Surprisingly, many paid programs (demo versions) have the same inconveniences. (For obvious reasons, I do not consider programs like Paint and the giant Photoshop). My requirements were met by 3 programs, including Advanced TIFF Editor, all paid. After spending several hours, I rejected 2 of them: it is overly sophisticated and costs the same as FineReader, the other for some reason saves recognized text only in PDF document format, which does not suit me (there is no saving in WORD). I’m not giving names, but if you want to find them in stores, set the item at the price “> 5000 rubles.”

The Advanced TIFF Editor program (I have version 3.9.4.20) fully meets the requirements of “scan, clean, recognize text in Cyrillic and Latin.” It takes up little space, installs quickly, works well, and is quite affordable. A nice option: installed 2 Trial versions (at home, at work), bought a key, activated the computer at work. If you need to work at home, deactivate the computer at work and activate it at home. Those. Works like a real wearable key. A convenient option is to save the settings to a file that can always be run on another computer. You could probably make several of these files and run them depending on the type of work you're doing (but I haven't tried it). From the wishes - the ability to recognize mixed text (Russian + English), but I saw this function only in FineReader. But overall, this is the best program in this class.

Arthur Shatokhin

There are many programs that work with pdf, but I like things in your program that I haven’t found anywhere else. Or at least it’s inconvenient in other programs.

1) Text ( vector graphics) in multi-page documents pdf created, for example, in Word, can be easily converted into an image.

2) Bit conversion multi-page pdf"Color - gray - black and white" ( different ways processing);

3) Changing the “brightness - contrast” parameters in multi-page pdf documents.

4) Convenient ability to drag and drop pages within a document.

5) I’m used to the program, all its tools are convenient for me.

The program is indispensable for me as a lawyer - business executive, arbitration manager. I use it to make my archives. This saves me from having to carry bags of papers with me on business trips.

Vladimir F.

Thanks for the program. I've been looking for something like this for a long time to process. PDF format and found it on the internet. I worked with the demo version and was satisfied.
The program is very easy to use, much more convenient than Adobe Acrobat, because it uses many formats and provides convenient access to processing.

Konstantin R.

This program is needed to work because on some state portals You need to upload documents not in PDF, but in TIFF format - multi-page!

Golubev P.S. [ZAO "Gazprombank-Asset Management"]

We are already purchasing a third license from you. If you do not take the expensive Adobe Acrobat, then there are practically no functional alternatives.

Egorov A. M.

The standard for the acceptance by the Federal Tax Inspectorate of electronic containers with documentation provides for the presence in them of scanned images of documents in a multi-page standard TIFF file, and this program is the best suited for creating such containers. The continue scanning function is very convenient when working with multi-page documents.

For some reason, various organizations and services like to provide various forms and documents in the format for free download from their official resources .tif

Okay, the format is not the most familiar and convenient (why not choose the “standard” and understandable .jpeg?), but these “typhoids” are not so simple - you can open it, in principle, with any photo viewer, but except you will not see anything else indicating that this “picture” has several “frames”.

How to "extract"/open/view all pages of a multi-page file,
having a TIF extension?

1. Right-click to open the file using “Windows Photo Viewer”

What if you don’t need to print all the pages of a document?

So it should open multi-page TIF document in another way.

1. Opening the file in my usual free program- in the XnView viewer, in the lower left corner we see “Frame 01/06”.

So why do we need these multi-page TIF documents?

In fact, for your and our convenience. Imagine a document with many, many pages. You don’t need to print them selectively, but rather flip through a document, and not a bunch of sheets of pictures folded into one folder (which will at least need to be unpacked from the archive - after all, they download files, not folders).
The TIFF format (short for Tagged Image File Format) is designed to store raster graphics. What’s noteworthy is that when stored, files of this format can have both .tif and .tiff extensions.

Saving several pages simultaneously in one file is one of the main advantages of the TIFF format. So to view these files you need to use programs for viewing multi-page documents.

What programs work with multi-page TIFF files?

On the market software There is a wide range of utilities for opening and working with TIFF - both paid and free, the most popular of which are:

1. FastStone Image Viewer is free for non-commercial use from version 3.5. Has a built-in sketch tool file manager. Can also be used as an image manager.
2. XnView allows you to read about 500 formats (including multi-page and animated formats such as APNG, TIFF, GIF, ICO, etc.).
3. AlternaTIFF is a browser add-on designed to open and display TIFF files. Supports most popular browsers of the Windows OS family, starting with XP.
4. Standard program in Windows OS to view images and faxes.

Thus, there should be no problems when choosing a program to open and work with the tif format - there are a sufficient number of tools for this. paid programs.