Posted on | July 16, 2010 | No Comments
PDF VS TIFF Comparison
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Category
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TIFF
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PDF
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| Description |
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TIFF is a royalty-free universal
standard format. |
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TIFF is a raster image of a document that contains
no embedded fonts, formatting or other platform-specific variable. |
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TIFF is the de facto standard for scanned,
faxed or archived documents. |
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TIFF is compatible with virtually all hardware
and software platforms. |
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PDF® is an open
standard Portable Document Format (PDF) based on PostScript® Page
Description Language developed and controlled by Adobe, Inc. |
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PDF’s unique feature is that all fonts, formatting,
colors and graphics are preserved regardless of the application used to create
the original file. |
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PDFs are widely used and accessible; requires
free viewer application to access. |
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PDFs are compatible with a wide range of hardware
and software platforms. |
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PDF is the de facto standard for all electronic
document exchange. |
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| File Size |
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There are many factors that determine
the size of either file type. The average size of a Group 4 compressed
TIFF of a billing statement page is 27kb. You can create an all raster
PDF, which will be the same size as a TIFF. Or, you can create a mixed
text, raster graphic and vector graphics PDF with embedded fonts, which will
be larger than a single-page TIFF, but smaller than a 100-page TIFF. Or,
you can create a mixed text and vector graphic PDF with referenced fonts, which
will normally be the smallest, fastest and most device/resolution-independent
file size. It all depends on what type of PCL you start with. |
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| Search Capability |
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The text contents of OCR’d TIFFs
are fully searchable, although PDFs offer improved viewing of
“hits” directly on the image. |
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Although there are many factors that determine
the accuracy of OCR technology, it is generally considered to be 90-99% accurate. |
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PDF files can be generated as
fully text searchable. |
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Unlike TIFFs, you can search for hits directly
on the image. |
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Index keywords can be stored in the PDF header
for faster searching across many files in a folder. |
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| Vendor Support |
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TIFFs are supported by all major
imaging and Electronic Document Delivery vendors. |
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PDFs are supported by all major
imaging and Electronic Document Delivery vendors. |
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| Admissibility/
Acceptance |
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Both TIFFs and PDFs
are widely used in e-Billing, Mortgage Loan, Insurance, Tax Preparation and Legal
applications. |
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| Future |
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TIFF is the most widely used imaging
and OCR format, and its future is not tied to any single company. |
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The PDF platform is growing in
usage and popularity as an accepted e-paper format. |
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The future of PDF is tied to its developer,
Adobe, Inc. |
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