Editing TIFF (section)

=== Digital preservation ===
Adobe holds the copyright on the TIFF specification (aka TIFF 6.0) along with the two supplements that have been published.  These documents can be found on the Adobe TIFF Resources page.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adobe.io/open/standards/TIFF.html |title=Adobe TIFF Resources page |access-date=2022-06-29  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108172855/https://www.adobe.io/open/standards/TIFF.html |archive-date=8 January 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Fax]] standard in RFC 3949 is based on these TIFF specifications.<ref name="LoC">{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000022.shtml|title=TIFF, Revision 6.0|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|work=Digital Preservation|date=2014-01-08|access-date=2014-03-11}}</ref>

TIFF files that strictly use the basic "tag sets" as defined in TIFF 6.0 along with restricting the compression technology to the methods identified in TIFF 6.0 and are adequately tested and verified by multiple sources for all documents being created can be used for storing documents.   Commonly seen issues encountered in the content and [[document management]] industry associated with the use of TIFF files arise when the structures contain proprietary headers, are not properly documented, or contain "wrappers" or other containers around the TIFF datasets, or include improper compression technologies, or those compression technologies are not properly implemented.

Variants of TIFF can be used within [[document imaging]] and content/document management systems using [[ITU-T|CCITT]] [[Group 4 compression|Group IV 2D compression]] which supports [[black-and-white]] (bitonal, [[monochrome]]) images, among other compression technologies that support [[color]]. When storage capacity and network bandwidth was a greater issue than commonly seen in today's server environments, high-volume storage scanning, documents were scanned in black and white (not in color or in grayscale) to conserve storage capacity.

The inclusion of the SampleFormat tag in TIFF 6.0 allows TIFF files to handle advanced pixel data types, including integer images with more than 8 bits per channel and floating point images. This tag made TIFF 6.0 a viable format for scientific image processing where extended precision is required. An example would be the use of TIFF to store images acquired using scientific CCD cameras that provide up to 16 bits per [[photosite]] of intensity resolution. Storing a sequence of images in a single TIFF file is also possible, and is allowed under TIFF 6.0, provided the rules for multi-page images are followed.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}