Change .tif into .doc file

H

Henry

I scanned a document and got large .tif file.
I have trouble sending it via e-mail.
How can I either change to .doc file, or
How can I sent the tif file?
 
I

Idaho Word Man

You can't "change a .tif into a .doc." You can insert a *.tif into a Word
document, but you won't reduce the size that way.

You need to re-scan the document and save it as a *.pdf. That should have a
much smaller size and will be easy to e-mail.
 
V

VanguardLH

Henry said:
I scanned a document and got large .tif file.
I have trouble sending it via e-mail.
How can I either change to .doc file, or
How can I sent the tif file?

A TIF file is an image file. So how would that equate to a .doc file
(unless the only object within the .doc file were an image)? What you
got as output from your scanner was an image, not a text document.
Check if their software lets you specify a compression ratio for the TIF
output. Otherwise, convert it to a different image format that uses
less bytes or allows compression (but be aware that compression is often
lossy which means quality goes down).

Irfanview is free and it can compress .tif files, or convert them to
another smaller file format. FormatFactory can do the same. TIF is
usually already small, so if you have a large .tif file then other
formats could be even larger, and further compression could make the
image unreadable.

E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended or
designed for that. There is no CRC check on the file to ensure
integrity. There is no resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail
download fails. There is no guarantee the e-mail will arrive
uncorrupted. Large e-mails can generate timeouts and retries due to the
delay when anti-virus programs interrogate their content.

Stop using e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient.
Not every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient has
high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow dial-up
access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail
provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You
waste the recipient's e-mail provider disk space and bandwidth. You eat
up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which could render it
unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full mailbox). You
irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons waiting to
download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas (i.e., so many
bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may not want. Stop
being rude. Take the large file out of the e-mail.

Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link the
file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is
more likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and
when to download your large file. Be polite.

Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal
web pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it. Other
methods (of using online storage), all free, are:

http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file size)
http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.megashares.com/index.php (10GB max file size)
http://www.rapidupload.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size)
http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size)
 
H

Henry

Thank you very much. You can see I am not too well versed in many of this
computer stuff.
All the best,
Henry
 
H

Henry

Thank you very much. I am not nearly as well versed as you are.
Your input is a valuable education.
I do NOT INTENTIONALLY wish to send large files.
I understand and sympathize with your admonishment.
I will investigate your other suggested solutions.

All the best.

Henry
 
B

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

Thank you very much. You can see I am not too well versed in many of this
computer stuff.

Some scanners also come with OCR software that will allow you to scan text and
convert it to a Word document.
 

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