.. index:: TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
.. index:: .tiff, .tif, .tf2, .tf8, .btf

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
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Extensions: .tiff, .tif, .tf2, .tf8, .btf

Developer: Aldus and Microsoft

Owner: `Adobe <http://www.adobe.com>`_

**Support**


BSD-licensed: |yes|

Export: |yes|

Officially Supported Versions: 

Reader: TiffReader (:bsd-reader:`Source Code <TiffReader.java>`, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields </metadata/TiffReader>`)

Writer: TiffWriter (:bsd-writer:`Source Code <TiffWriter.java>`)


Sample Datasets:

- `LZW TIFF data gallery <http://marlin.life.utsa.edu/Data_Gallery.html>`_ 
- `Big TIFF <http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/bigtiff.html#samples>`_

We currently have:

* a `TIFF specification document <http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff.html>`_ 
* many TIFF datasets 
* a few BigTIFF datasets

We would like to have:


**Ratings**


Pixels: |Very good|

Metadata: |Outstanding|

Openness: |Outstanding|

Presence: |Outstanding|

Utility: |Fair|

**Additional Information**


Bio-Formats can also read BigTIFF files (TIFF files larger than 4 GB). 
Bio-Formats can save image stacks as TIFF or BigTIFF. 

.. seealso:: 
  `TIFF technical overview <http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/faq.html#q3>`_ 
  `BigTIFF technical overview <http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/bigtiff.html>`_