jw,
This is all I know about tiff files. I'm not even sure tif is the same as tiff. It's from the US Patent Office web-site help (they provide a link to download the plugin):
uspto.gov
The Patent Full-Text Database now contains hyperlinks from the full-text document display to the full-page images of each page of each patent in the database. Our goal is to make new full-page images available each issue day (Tuesday).
These full-page images are not directly viewable using most Web browsers.They are in 300 d.p.i. Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). However, there are many variants -- or "flavors" -- of TIFF, including different ways of compressing the image data within the TIFF file. The TIFF flavor used by PTO and other countries' intellectual property offices is international standard CCITT Group 4 (G4) compression. Displaying them requires either a TIFF G4 plug-in for your browser, or a properly installed and configured application to which your browser sends G4 TIFF images for display. Note that relatively few image viewers and plug-ins handle G4 compression.
The only free, unlimited time TIFF plug-in for x86 PCs of which we are presently aware is Medical Informatics Engineering's AlternaTIFF, which functions with current Netscape, Microsoft, and Opera browsers.
The only Apple Macintosh© plug-in we are aware of which works with our images is Acordex Imaging Systems Accel ViewTIFF, which offers a free 14-day demonstration. It is known to work in both IE 4+ and Netscape 4+ with Apple Quicktime 4.0.
If you know of other free, unlimited time TIFF Group 4 plug-ins or viewers for any computer platform, please tell us about them.
I'm sure someone else has the answer. Good luck if you try OCR. I didn't have enough patience.
I remembered wrong: I was using Omnipage OCR, not Corel. Here's the Omnipage link:
ausmedia.com.au
You can download a trial version and you can buy it on ebay.
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