TIFF Viewer Server (Standard version)
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The Tiff Viewer Server allows Terminal Server users to view, print, annotate, scan, batch scan, email, and edit any TIFF image, Fax, or other image files directly through the standalone user interface.

Along with the Standalone application, the TIFF Viewer Server includes a Browser Extension and a Web Application for Google Chrome/Microsoft Edge. The Tiff Viewer Server supports displaying Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) annotations and Wang annotations.

Looking to add support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and PDF files? Check out the Tiff Viewer server Pro Edition.



    The TIFF Viewer Server Standard Edition is ideal for viewing, editing, and printing TIFF and a variety of other image types. The TIFF Viewer is commonly used by the Insurance, Banking, Medical, Medical Processing, Legal, Engineering, Transportation, and Government sectors.

    Why use the Black Ice TIFF Viewer?


    15-Day Free Evaluation

    The evaluation copy is fully functional for 15 days. Once the demo period is over you may purchase Tiff Viewer Server. Order multiple copies or a site license at a discount, visit the Black Ice Online Store for details.

    Update Tiff Viewer more easily while preserving the user settings

    A new Update feature, allows Administrators to seamlessly upgrade the TIFF Viewer to the latest version on every computer, while preserving the user settings such as: View Modes, File Associations, Annotation and Stamp configurations ...etc.

    Supported Operating Systems

    Servers

    Windows Server 2022

    Windows Server 2019

    Windows Server 2016

    Windows Server 2012 R2

    Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop

    VMware Horizon + ThinApp, VMware VCenter

    Microsoft RemoteApp, Microsoft Hyper-V, Hyper-V VDI



    For Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7, please see Tiff Viewer.

    Looking to develop an Image Viewer or add Imaging capabilities to a web site? Click here for details on our imaging toolkits.



    Tiff Viewer Pro Server Features
    Version
    Standard Version
    Pro Version
    General Features
    Single page View (with continuous scrolling)
    Multi-Page View (with continuous scrolling)
    Viewing modes (Actual size, Normal size, Fit to Width, Fit to Window)
    View multi-page TIFF files in thumbnails
    Context Menu for the Thumbnail View
    View TIFF, FAX, RAW formats
    View Vector/editable PDF files
    View Image PDFs
    Fill PDF forms
    Password protect PDF documents
    View common image formats (JPEG, BMP)
    Easily open files with drag and drop
    Copy, Paste multiple pages
    Drag and Drop feature between Tiff Viewer windows
    Drag and Drop feature between the Tiff Viewer Browser Plugin
    Supported color depths: 1, 8, 24 and 32 bit
    Load images from web urls
    File browser with thumbnails
    Go to Next/Previous document in current directory
    Go to page
    Delete files
    Importing text (TXT) file to the graphics
    Panning and Zooming
    Custom Zoom steps
    Fit screen width, height
    Continuous scrolling
    Multi-page view
    Scan images
    Batch scan multiple pages, documents
    Printing current page
    Printing all pages
    Double-sided (duplex) printing
    Printing silently from command line
    Save current printer configuration
    Save / Save as documents (view details)
    Save images into searchable/vector PDF file format
    Upload Tiff documents to SharePoint®
    Send document in email through the default mail client
    Send document in email using SMTP server
    Automatically open fillable forms with Form Filler
    Add Signatures or Initials to documents
    Customizable Ribbon
    MSI installer is available for IT managers
    TIFF Specific Features
    Split one tiff file into two
    Rearrange the pages of a multi-page tiff
    Append images to TIFF
    Insert page(s) or documents into multipage TIFF
    Delete page(s) from multipage TIFF
    Add/Modify TIFF tags
    Supports several  TIFF compression type (Packbits, LZW, CCITT Group 3 and Group 4)
    Page/Image Processing
    Rotate image or page(s)
    Auto rotate images or page(s) to landscape or portrait
    Flip images or page(s)
    Invert images or page(s)
    Copy/Cut selected image to clipboard
    Undo last 16 action
    Split Page(s)
    Cut Page(s)
    Extract/Copy Page(s)
    Crop Images or Page(s)
    Document Cleanup
    Clean noise and isolated pixels on images or page(s)
    Remove Black Pixels from images or page(s)
    De-skew faxes, images or page(s) automatically
    De-skew faxes, images or page(s) using a custom angle
    Punch hole remover on images or page(s)
    Removing black border on images or page(s)
    Lines removal on images or page(s)
    Annotation Features
    Load annotation
    Several annotation tools(view details)
    Burn annotation
    Comment annotation
    Save annotation
    Copy/Cut selected annotation to clipboard
    Shapes
    - Rectangle
    - Rounded Rectangle
    - Circle
    - Arrow Shape
    Stamp
    - Rubber Stamp
    - TimeStamp
    - Personalized Stamp
    Stamp Modes
    - Opaque
    - White is Transparent (for signatures)
    - Black is Transparent
    Redact documents
    Whiteout documents
    NOTE: In the Tiff Viewer Free version, the user can apply the annotations on the pages, but the save option is not available.
    OCR features
    Optical Character Recognition
    - Search TIFF and Image PDF documents for text
    - Search vector/editable PDF documents for text
    - Highlight or Redact Search matches
    - OCR current page
    - OCR all pages
    - OCR selected area
    - OCR selected area to Clipboard
    - OCR page range
    - Show OCR result for current page
    - Show OCR result for all pages
    - Send OCR text to Microsoft Word
    - Send OCR text to default web browser
    Browser Extension features
    Browser Extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge
    View TIFF documents
    View Vector/editable PDF and Image PDF documents
    Fill PDF forms
    Password protect PDF documents
    Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
    Search and redact search results in TIFF documents
    Search in PDF documents
    Intelligent redact to protect sensitive information
    Annotate TIFF Documents
    - Signature Annotation
    - Comment Annotation
    - Text Annotation
    - Note Annotation
    - Highlight Annotation
    - Stamp Annotation
    - Insert Image
    - Redact Annotation
    - Arrow Annotation
    - Line Annotation
    - Ellipse Annotation
    - Rectangle Annotation
    - Rounded Rectangle Annotation
    Manage pages in multipage TIFF files
    Thumbnail Browser for easy navigation between the pages
    View multipage TIFF files in Thumbnail Mode
    Continuous scrolling between pages
    Open and view Vector/editable PDF files
    Export documents to PDF
    Download documents
    Rotate page(s)
    Responsive User Interface
    Fully Customizable User Interface
    Embed Browser Extension to a website
    Detailed logging
    MSI installer is available for IT managers
    Message Passing API, for developers
    TIFF Viewer Core features
    TIFF Viewer Core for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge
    View TIFF documents
    View Vector/editable PDF and Image PDF documents
    Fill PDF forms
    Password protect PDF documents
    Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
    Search and redact search results in TIFF documents
    Search in PDF documents
    AI Assistant
    Intelligent redact to protect sensitive information
    Annotate TIFF Documents
    - Signature Annotation
    - Comment Annotation
    - Text Annotation
    - Note Annotation
    - Highlight Annotation
    - Stamp Annotation
    - Insert Image
    - Redact Annotation
    - Arrow Annotation
    - Line Annotation
    - Ellipse Annotation
    - Rectangle Annotation
    - Rounded Rectangle Annotation
    Manage pages in multipage TIFF files
    Thumbnail Browser for easy navigation between the pages
    View multipage TIFF files in Thumbnail Mode
    Continuous scrolling between pages
    Open and view Vector/editable PDF files
    Export documents to PDF
    Download documents
    Rotate page(s)
    Responsive User Interface
    Fully Customizable User Interface
    Embed TIFF Viewer Core to a website
    Detailed logging
    MSI installer is available for IT managers
    Message Passing API, for developers
    Browser Plug-in features
    Browser plug-in for Internet Explorer
    Display image
    View multi-page TIFF files in thumbnails in Browser Plugin
    Open and view Vector/editable PDF files
    Save image
    Upload Tiff documents to SharePoint®
    Send document in email with default mail client
    Send document in email using SMTP server
    Print current page
    Print all pages
    Rotate/Flip page(s)
    Panning and Zooming
    Invert image
    Cut/Paste page(s)
    Insert page(s)

    For Windows 11/10/8/7 please see Tiff Viewer Features.

    MSI Installer for large scale deployment

    The MSI installer for TIFF Viewer designed for large scale deployment in Active Directory environments. With the TIFF Viewer MSI installer System Administrators can create custom configurations for every User on the system and register or activate the TIFF Viewer. The MSI installer will greatly simplify mess deployment and eliminates the need for customers to build custom installations.

    The MSI installer is compatible with Microsoft SMS/SCCM, Zenworks, and Marimba.


    The MSI install has the following installation features:

    • Automatic silent installation
    • Automatic register/activate the Tiff Viewer with a serial number
    • Upgrade the TIFF Viewer while preserving the user settings using the MSI installer
    • Install the Tiff Viewer for evaluation
    • Configure installation target directory
    • Install Tiff Viewer with a transformation file
    • Configure the registration of the Tiff Viewer with Black Ice license server:
      • 443 port with SSL (default)
      • 80 port without SSL
      • 3500 port without SSL
      • 15000 port without SSL
    • Configure the connection to the license server with proxy server
      • Not using proxy server (default)
      • Attempt to discover automatic proxy
      • Use HTTP proxy
      • Use SOCKS proxy
    • Enables or Disables the Browser Plug-in for all users
    • Install the TIFF Viewer Browser Extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge
    • Pre-configure the Tiff Viewer with configuration INI file during installation

    The following features of the Tiff Viewer can be pre-configured:

    • File association
      • Tiff, Dialogic, GammaLink, Bicom/NMS (TIFF and TIF)
      • Fax
      • JPG
      • Bitmap (BMP)
      • PNG
      • Cals
      • ASCII (TXT)
    • Viewer settings
      • First Start
      • Auto Rotate
    • General settings
      • File extension dialog.
      • Display mode.
      • Controls the getting started dialog.
      • Enable the Thumbnail View for multi-page documents.
      • Enable Save View Setting feature.
      • Enable Auto Save feature.
      • Enable Show Annotation Color Lost feature.
      • Enable File Navigation feature.
      • Enable Thumbnail Browser feature.
      • Specifies the dithering method of monochrome (black and white) documents.
      • Enable Send documents in Email feature.
      • Enable Upload documents to SharePoint feature.
      • Configures the Enable loading annotation file automatically option in the Tiff Viewer General options.
      • Enable or disable saving.
      • Enable or disable memory file.
      • Enable or disable "Burn annotation into the image when saving the document" option.
      • Redirect saving.
      • Save directory.
      • Tools ribbon tab.
      • Annotation
      • Document cleanup.
      • Options
    • Annotation settings
      • Shows or hides all annotations
      • Selects the stamp type for the Default Stamp button on the Home ribbon.
      • Selects the stamp type for the Rubber Stamp button on the Annotation ribbon.
      • Shows or hides the date on the Timestamp.
      • Sets the date format for the Timestamp.
      • Shows or hides the time on the Timestamp.
      • Sets the time format for the Timestamp.
      • Shows or hides the minutes on the Timestamp.
      • Shows or hides the seconds on the Timestamp.
      • Shows or hides the time zone on the Timestamp.
      • Specifies the text of the Timestamp.
      • Specifies the position of text on the Timestamp.
      • Specifies the alignment of the timestamp text relative to the date and time on the Timestamp.
    • Printing configuration:
      • Enables or Disables the Center the Image Vertically option on the Print dialog of Tiff viewer.
      • Enables or Disables the Center the Image Horizontally option on the Print dialog of Tiff viewer.
      • Enables or Disables the Scale to Fit Page Proportionally option on the Print dialog of Tiff viewer.
      • Enables or Disables the Use Image DPI option on the Print dialog of Tiff viewer.
      • Enables or Disables the Stretch to Fit Page option on the Print dialog of Tiff viewer.
      • Enables or Disables the Print annotations option on the Print dialog of Tiff viewer.
    • Browser plug-in viewer settings:
      • This option configures the default View Mode of the Browser Plug-In.
    • Browser Plug-in printer settings:
      • Enables or Disables the Stretched to Fit Page option in TIFF Viewer Browser Plug-In.
      • Enables or Disables the Center on Page option in TIFF Viewer Browser Plug-In.
      • Configures the Default Printing Mode in TIFF Viewer Browser Plug-In.
    • Scanning configuration:
      • When this option is 1, the Tiff Viewer will always remember and use the previously used batch scan directory.
      • Specifies the default scan directory where the batch scanned documents will be saved.
      • Twain data source manager selection allows users to select which data source manager version must be used for scanning.

      For example:
      msiexec /i "[PATH]\TiffViewerServer.msi" /q TARGETDIR="C:\Black Ice\TiffViewer Server" CUSTOMINI="[PATH]\Tiffviewer.ini" REGNUM=xxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx

      MSI

      Supported Installation methods using Group Policy Deployment;

      • Assign to Computer (silent install)
      • Assign to User (silent install)
      • Publish

      Additional supported installation method;

      • Installation from command line (cmd.exe)

      Installing the TIFF Viewer on VDI

      The Tiff Viewer can be installed on Azure VDI, AWS VDI, VMware VDI, or any VDI system from the master image.
      The base requirement for licensing of the TIFF Viewer is the Tiff Viewer Special Installer with the licensing mechanism designed for VDI.
      The MSI or Interactive Tiff Viewer Special Installer can be requested from Black Ice Software Sales sales@blackice.com.

      The Interactive or MSI Tiff Viewer Special Installer for VDI is not available for a single license and is not available from the online store only directly from Black Ice Software sales.


      Installing Black Ice products on Citrix VDI for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

      Installing Black Ice products on Azure Windows Virtual Desktop

      Requirement;

      • .NET framework 4.0 or higher

      For MSI Installer availability, contact sales@blackice.com.

    Web Solutions

    The number of cloud and web applications is more than ever. As more and more businesses are moving to the cloud, the need for a reliable and flexible web document viewer solution rises.
    Black Ice TIFF Viewer offers different solutions for viewing documents in a web browser.

    TIFF Viewer Core

    Lightweight and Flexible Solutions

    In most cases, we recommend our TIFF Viewer Core Web Application, which is a lightweight and flexible solution with a rich feature set for viewing and editing documents in the browser.

    Chrome / Edge Extension

    Chromium-based Solutions

    Ideal solution for viewing multi-page TIFF and PDF files from the web in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.

    IE Browser Plug-In

    Legacy Internet Explorer Solutions

    For legacy applications and environments, we offer our Browser Plug-In for viewing multi-page documents using MS Internet Explorer or MS Edge in compatibility mode.

    Which web solution should I choose?

    While our solutions for the web offer a similar feature set, there are significant differences between installation and integration. Please see the most important differences below:

    TIFF Viewer Core Chrome / Edge extension IE Browser Plug-In
    Browser Support Chrome, Edge Chrome, Edge Internet Explorer
    File Support TIFF, PDF, JPG, BMP, PNG, TEXT, ICA, ZIP TIFF, PDF, JPG, BMP, PNG, TEXT, ICA, ZIP TIFF, PDF, JPEG, TEXT, ICA
    Easy Integration (IFRAME) Support YES YES YES
    URL Parameter support for Easy Integration YES YES NO
    Support Multi-Page Documents YES YES YES
    OCR and Search YES YES NO
    AI Assistant YES NO NO
    Annotation Support Full Support for Viewing and Editing Full Support for Viewing and Editing Only Viewing
    Open Files on New Tab YES YES NO
    Open Files on New Window YES YES NO
    Internet Connection Not Required Required Not Required
    Installation Easy – Installs with TIFF Viewer Intermediate – Installs with TIFF Viewer, but users may have to enable it manually in the browser. Easy – Installs with TIFF Viewer
    Update to a new version Updates with TIFF Viewer Partially updates with TIFF Viewer, and partially from the Chrome Web Store automatically Updates with TIFF Viewer
    Large-Scale Deployment Easy – MSI Installers and parameters Intermediate – MSI Installers and parameters, and Group Policy settings for the extension installation Easy – MSI Installers and parameters
    Uninstallation Easy – Uninstalls with TIFF Viewer Intermediate – Uninstalls with TIFF Viewer, but Chrome and Edge browsers must be closed and reopened to complete. Easy – Uninstalls with TIFF Viewer
    Technology The latest ASP.NET Core Web Application Chrome Browser Extension Legacy IE ActiveX Plugin
    Environment Self-Running Application Inside Chrome / Edge Inside Internet Explorer