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TIFF to DXF Converter

Drop a .tiff or .tif scan below and download a DXF of editable polylines for CAD, laser cutting or plasma. Free, unlimited, no account.

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Conversion starts immediately. Up to 100 MB per file. You can also paste a screenshot

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How to convert TIFF to DXF

Upload your TIFF file

Drop your .tiff on the converter, click to browse, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V.

We trace the lines

Bilevel Group 4 scans need no threshold guess at all, so cleanup concentrates on removing scanner speckle before the linework is walked.

Download a real DXF

You get an R2000 ASCII DXF with editable LWPOLYLINE geometry — the open CAD exchange format — editable geometry, ready to draft on, not a picture to trace again.

What you get: lines, not pictures

A floor plan with solid walls, furniture and text — and the CAD geometry this converter produces from it. Walls keep both faces, every thin line is a single editable polyline, and labels become real editable text.

Example TIFF floor plan before conversion — Input: raster image (solid walls, thin furniture lines, text)

Editable DXF vector drawing produced by the converter — Output: editable DXF polylines (walls outlined, lines centerlined)

About TIFF to DXF conversion

TIFF is what scanners emit when someone is being careful. Wide-format blueprint scanners, records offices and document management systems all standardised on it, typically with CCITT Group 4 compression — lossless, bilevel and remarkably small for line work. That combination is close to the ideal input for producing cut paths: the image is already pure black and white, so there is no threshold decision to get wrong and the cleanup pass can concentrate on removing scanner speckle rather than negotiating with grey tones.

The practical caveats are container-shaped rather than image-shaped. Both .tif and .tiff are the same format and are accepted identically. More importantly, TIFF can hold many pages in one file and drawing archives use that constantly, so a scanned sheet set arrives as a single upload — of which only the first page is converted. Split it first; conversions are free and unlimited, so a twelve-sheet set costs nothing but twelve uploads. Output is R2000 ASCII DXF, which old plasma and laser controllers read as readily as current CAD.

Frequently asked questions

Only the first page of my multi-page TIFF converted. Why?

Because the pipeline converts one drawing per upload. Archives routinely store a whole sheet set in one TIFF — split it into single pages with any imaging utility and upload them separately. There is no limit on how many conversions you run.

Is CCITT Group 4 supported?

Yes, along with uncompressed, LZW, Deflate and PackBits. Group 4 bilevel is the best input this converter accepts: already binary, lossless, and small, so traced edges land exactly on scanned pixel boundaries.

Can I cut directly from a scanned blueprint DXF?

Review it first. Scans carry speckle, fold lines and edge shadows; isolated specks are filtered but a crease that reads as a continuous stroke will be traced. Everything lands on one layer, so stray geometry is quick to select and delete before you cut.

Do faded blue-line and sepia prints work?

Usually. The threshold is computed per image, so a low-contrast sepia sheet gets a different cut point than a crisp black-on-white one. Very faded prints are the hard case — rescan with contrast boosted if lines drop out.

Is .tif treated the same as .tiff?

Identically — same format, different spelling. The pipeline sniffs magic bytes rather than trusting the extension, so even a mislabelled file decodes correctly.

Convert from a script or an AI agent

The same conversion is one HTTP call — no key, no account, no rate limit. The full machine-readable spec lives at /llms.txt.

curl -X POST https://nasji.com/api/convert \
  -F "[email protected]" \
  -F "target=dxf" \
  -o drawing.dxf