I must be missing something salient in this discussion. I was under the impression that you had a TIFF file which you wanted to convert to some other format so that you could perform OCR on text which formed part of the file. If you can convert your TIFF file to PDF (via Preview, for example) then you should be able to grab (highlight) the text portion and then cut-and-paste it into a Word document and manipulate it from there. (I do the latter all the time, as I've pointed out.)
So, what am I misconstruing?
