Problems attaching a scanned document to an Email

[MegandMolly]

I'm having problems attaching a scanned document onto an email, my HP scanner saves into a folder as .tif format, then I 'attach document' in hotmail and it usually just loads up. Recentlyt it's taking ages  or gives an error message 

Should I be changing the format from .tif to something else first??

Sam

[Jane S]

Tif files tend to be very big so if Hotmail has a limit on the size of attachments, that could be the problem. If it's an image file, it's best to save as a JPEG to get a smaller file size or perhaps convert to PDf file if it's a mainly text document (there are a few free programs which can do this for you like this one HERE)

[MegandMolly]

Thanks Jane, I'm downloading that program now, and will try again 

[dazla]

You should be able to tweak the scanner software so that you can save the docs as something other than a tiff, such as for example a jpeg. This will eliminate the need to convert it retrospectively.

Unless you are using ocr (optical character recognition) software you will gain little by using a tiff over a jpeg.