These files are related with ScanSoft Pagis, software that converts pictures or text into PC with the help scanner.

Identification

1. XIF basically stands for eXtended Image Format is known as a ScanSoft Pagis file.

Significance

2. XIF file has a text document that has been scanned as an image. XIF extension serves as a marker to PC, signaling that file needs ScanSoft Pagis to be accessed.

Function

3. The image in XIF file is saved in separate layers for text color, font, images and background, permitting users to modify features of file, like color of text.

Considerations

4. ScanSoft Pagis is created by Nuance Software Company under the name Nuance Pagis but keep on utilizing XIF files.

Warning

5. Only Pagis can access XIF files. If you get an error message as attempting to
access a XIF file, program not appropriately installed on PC.