MS document imaging

Gers

I've found a CD of documents I processed in 2007 - the programme used seems to be MS document imaging so the documents are .tif

Is there anyway to convert them to pdf? Perhaps they are a lost cause!

Thanks

debitcardmayhem

try paint or even word/libreoffice right click on it and select open with what you have. TIF are tagged image format one of those should open it

Owain_Moneysaver

Irfanview - and it has a batch convert mode. Uncheck the 'show options' box and it will do a whole directory of files in one go.

Gers

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

try paint or even word/libreoffice right click on it and select open with what you have. TIF are tagged image format one of those should open it

Thanks.

I've right clicked and chosen reader. That way I can read then but really wanted them in PDF. No option to read in word.

Gers

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Irfanview - and it has a batch convert mode. Uncheck the 'show options' box and it will do a whole directory of files in one go.

Thanks. I'll have a go tomorrow.

debitcardmayhem

Gers wrote: »

Thanks.

I've right clicked and chosen reader. That way I can read then but really wanted them in PDF. No option to read in word.

Try printing it as a pdf (depends on which version which windows you have)
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i use to use primopdf http://www.primopdf.com/ the free verson

fenlander_uk

Bear in mind that a TIF file is a graphics format. If you print the file to PDF, the result will be a PDF of a graphic, which is not the same thing as as a PDF of text. One consequence of that is that the PDF will be bigger than if it contained only text and was printed from a word processor.

If you want to recover editable text from your files, you will need to process them with OCR (optical character recognition) software.