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TIFF to PDF

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TIFF to PDF

Convert TIFF files to PDF, including multi-page TIFFs. Each page (or "IFD") in a TIFF file becomes a separate page in the output PDF. This is especially useful for scanned documents, faxes, and medical images that are commonly stored as multi-page TIFFs.

Supported Formats

FormatExtensions
TIFF.tiff, .tif

How It Works

  1. Click the upload area or drag and drop your TIFF files.
  2. Review the file list and manage it as needed.
  3. Click Convert to PDF. The result downloads as from_tiff.pdf.

The tool decodes each TIFF file using a JavaScript TIFF decoder, extracting every page's raw RGBA pixel data. Each page is rendered onto a canvas, exported as PNG, and embedded in the PDF. Page dimensions match the original TIFF pages.

Options

This tool does not expose additional quality settings. Images are embedded at their native resolution.

Use Cases

  • Converting multi-page fax documents (TIFF-F) to a more portable PDF format
  • Turning scanned document archives stored as TIFF into searchable PDFs (combine with the OCR tool afterward)
  • Processing medical imaging files (pathology slides, radiology exports) that use TIFF
  • Converting GIS or satellite imagery TIFF files into shareable documents

Tips

  • Multi-page TIFFs are fully supported. A 10-page TIFF will produce a 10-page PDF. You do not need to split the TIFF first.
  • Very large TIFF files (hundreds of megabytes) may take longer to process since the entire file must be decoded in browser memory.
  • If you need OCR on the resulting PDF, run it through the OCR PDF tool after conversion.