How does PDF.to convert a TIFF image into a DOC document?
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We run OCR on your TIFF, recognize the text, and place it into a DOC you can edit. Images from the TIFF are embedded alongside the recognized text where they appeared.
How accurate is the OCR for TIFF to DOC?
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On clean 300-DPI scans, English OCR is typically 98%+ accurate. Hand-written, low-resolution, or skewed TIFF images yield lower accuracy and may need manual review in the resulting DOC.
Paragraphs, columns, tables, and basic headings are reconstructed in the DOC. Highly designed layouts (magazine pages, infographics) may need touch-up after conversion.
Does the converter preserve tables from the TIFF?
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Yes — detected tables are rebuilt as native DOC tables with rows, columns, and cell content. Complex nested or borderless tables may flatten into plain text.
Will images and figures from the TIFF stay in the DOC?
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Yes. Photos, diagrams, and figures are extracted at their original resolution and placed in the resulting DOC near the recognized text.
Can I batch-convert many TIFF images at once?
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Yes — upload a folder of TIFF scans and you will receive a ZIP of DOC files (or, optionally, a single concatenated DOC).
What is the largest TIFF I can convert?
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Free accounts have a size limit that varies by file type; PRO accounts allow much larger files and multi-page TIFF batches.
Is the TIFF to DOC conversion free?
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Yes, within the free size limit. PRO unlocks batch jobs, additional OCR languages, and higher-fidelity layout reconstruction.
Does PDF.to keep my TIFF image?
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No. The TIFF upload and the resulting DOC are both deleted within an hour. OCR runs in an isolated worker.
Will the DOC be searchable?
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Yes — the recognized text becomes a real text layer in the DOC, so search-and-replace, copy-paste, and find-in-document all work.
Can I edit the DOC in Word, Pages, or Google Docs after conversion?
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Yes. The output is a standard DOC compatible with every major editor; open it like any other DOC and edit normally.
