PDF to TIFF Converter

To turn a PDF into TIFF, add your PDF to the box above, pick the resolution, the colour mode and whether you want one file or one file per page, then press Convert to TIFF. A few seconds later your TIFF is ready to download. You can add up to 20 PDFs and convert them in one go.

Everything happens in your browser. Your PDF is not uploaded to any server, so private letters, contracts, scans and drawings stay on your device. The TIFF files are written on your computer or phone and saved straight to your downloads.

TIFF is one of the oldest and most widely supported image formats. Document management systems, archives, scanners, fax servers, print shops, medical and legal systems and many government portals still ask for TIFF files instead of PDF. A TIFF stores each page as a plain grid of pixels, so it looks the same in every program and does not depend on fonts, layers or scripts.

A TIFF can also hold many pages in one file, just like a PDF. That makes it a natural format for scanned letters, forms, invoices and records that need to be stored for many years. Because the compression used here is lossless, the pixels you save today are exactly the pixels you get back later.

Turning a PDF into TIFF is the usual way to meet these requirements. You keep the PDF for reading and sharing, and hand the TIFF to the system that needs it. When you need to go the other way, TIFF to PDF turns TIFF files back into a PDF.

PDF, TIFF, JPG and PNG can all hold a page, but they are built for different jobs. A PDF keeps text, fonts and vector drawings, so the text stays sharp at any zoom and can be searched. A TIFF stores a fixed grid of pixels, can hold many pages and uses lossless compression, which is why archives and document systems like it. JPG makes small files for photos but loses some detail every time it is saved. PNG is lossless too, but it holds only one image per file and is mostly used on the web.

So the choice is simple. Keep the PDF when people need to read, search or print the document. Use TIFF when a system, an archive, a fax service or a GIS program asks for it, or when you need a lossless image of every page in one file. Use PDF to JPG or PDF to PNG when the page is going to a chat, a website or a slide.

DPI means dots per inch. It sets how many pixels each inch of the PDF page gets in the TIFF. A higher DPI gives a sharper image with more pixels, and a bigger file. The converter offers 150, 200, 300 and 600 DPI as quick buttons, and Custom lets you type any value from 50 to 1200 DPI.

A PDF to TIFF 300 DPI conversion is the most common request. It is the usual standard for archives, document systems and printing, and it keeps normal text sharp even when you zoom in. 200 DPI suits fax and many document systems and makes smaller files. 150 DPI is enough for reading on a screen. 600 DPI keeps fine print, small labels and thin lines in drawings.

The DPI you choose is written into the TIFF file itself, in the resolution tags. That means a program that prints or measures the image knows the real page size: an A4 page made at 300 DPI prints as A4, not as a huge poster. The result list shows the DPI of every file next to its size, so you can check it before you download.

Choose 600 DPI when the page has details that are hard to read at normal size: small footnotes, signatures, stamps, engineering drawings, floor plans, maps and charts with thin lines. A PDF to TIFF 600 DPI conversion gives each A4 page about 4960 × 7016 pixels, four times as many pixels as 300 DPI, so you can zoom in a long way and still read every label.

That detail has a cost. In colour, a 600 DPI page holds about 35 million pixels, and even with lossless compression the file can be large. If you only need the text, Black & white (1-bit) at 600 DPI keeps every edge sharp while staying much smaller. For most office documents, 300 DPI is enough.

Very large pages need a lot of memory. If a page is too big for your device at the DPI you chose, the converter makes it at the highest DPI your device can hold and tells you so in a note above the button. Nothing is cut off; the page is only made with fewer pixels. If you need the full DPI, try a computer with more memory, or convert fewer pages at a time.

The Colour setting decides how many shades each pixel can have. Colour keeps the page exactly as you see it on screen, with full 24-bit colour. Grayscale turns it into 256 shades of grey, which is about a third of the size of colour before compression. Black & white (1-bit) keeps only pure black and pure white pixels and gives by far the smallest files.

Pick the mode that matches the content. Photos, colour charts and coloured stamps need Colour. Scanned letters, books and forms with grey areas look natural in Grayscale. Clean text, line drawings and fax pages are best in Black & white.

A PDF to TIFF black and white conversion stores each pixel as a single bit: black or white, nothing in between. That is the classic format for text documents, fax pages and document archives. The files are small, the text edges are crisp, and every TIFF reader opens them.

When you choose Black & white (1-bit), a Threshold slider appears under More options. It decides which pixels become black. A higher threshold keeps faint text, light pencil lines and pale stamps. A lower threshold turns light grey backgrounds and shading into clean white. The default of 160 works well for most documents; move it only if the result looks too light or too dark.

Black and white is not a good match for photos or pages with large coloured areas, because every shade has to become either black or white. For those pages, use Grayscale. If you want to keep a PDF, but in black and white, PDF to Black and White does that without turning the pages into images.

A multi page PDF to TIFF conversion gives you one TIFF file that holds every page, in the same order as the PDF. This is the default: one multi-page TIFF per PDF. Most document systems, fax servers and archive tools expect exactly this, and it keeps a document together as one file. Document viewers, macOS Preview and most image editors let you step through the pages.

Some systems want one image per page instead. Switch Files to One TIFF per page and every page becomes its own TIFF, named after the PDF and the page number, for example report-page-01.tif, report-page-02.tif. The numbers are padded with zeros, so the files sort in the right order in any folder.

When you convert several PDFs at once, each PDF gives its own TIFF file, or its own set of page files. With more than one file, Download all puts them together in one ZIP. You can also save any single file from the result list with its own download button.

Leave Pages on All pages to convert the whole PDF. To convert only part of it, choose Some pages and type the pages you want: a single page like 4, a range like 2-6, several ranges like 1-3, 7, 10-12, or a range to the end like 10-end. If the box turns red, the range is not valid yet.

The same range is used for every PDF in the list. If a PDF is shorter than the range, only the pages it has are converted. To keep different pages from different files, convert them one at a time, or use Split PDF first to cut out the pages you need.

You can convert many PDFs in one go. Add up to 20 PDFs at once, by selecting several files, dropping them together on the box, or pressing Add more after the first ones. Each PDF can be up to 200 MB. The list shows the name, the number of pages and the size of every file, and you can remove any file before you convert.

The settings you choose apply to all PDFs in the list. Each PDF becomes its own TIFF, or its own set of page files, named after the PDF. A progress bar shows which file and page is being converted, and Stop cancels the run at any time. When it is done, Download all saves every file together in one ZIP named tiff-files.zip.

If one PDF cannot be read, the others are still converted, and the failed file shows a short note in the list. Very long batches at 600 DPI in colour take time and memory, so for big jobs it is often quicker to convert in a few smaller groups.

PDF to TIFF LZW compression is the default on this page, and for good reason. LZW is lossless: it makes the file smaller without changing a single pixel. It is part of the TIFF standard, and almost every program that reads TIFF also reads LZW, from Windows and macOS viewers to Photoshop, GIMP, document systems and GIS software.

Under More options you can also choose PackBits or None. PackBits is a simpler lossless method that some very old systems prefer; it works well on pages with large plain areas, but LZW is usually smaller. None writes the pixels with no compression at all. Choose it only if a system clearly asks for uncompressed TIFF, because the files are much larger.

All three options are lossless, so the image quality is the same; only the file size and compatibility differ. The converter does not offer JPEG compression inside TIFF, which loses detail and is not read by every program, and it does not offer CCITT Group 4 fax compression. Black and white pages are written with LZW instead, which every TIFF reader understands.

TIFF files are larger than JPG or PNG because the compression is lossless and the pages are stored at full resolution. If you need a PDF to TIFF low size result, the colour mode and the DPI make the biggest difference, in that order.

First, choose Black & white (1-bit) for any page that is mostly text. It needs one bit per pixel instead of 24, and a typical text page shrinks to a small part of its colour size. Second, lower the DPI: 200 DPI has less than half the pixels of 300 DPI, and is still clear for text. Third, keep LZW compression on. Grayscale is a good middle ground when black and white loses too much.

You can also convert fewer pages. Choose Some pages and type only the pages you need. If the PDF itself is large, Compress PDF makes the PDF smaller, but the TIFF size depends on the DPI and colour you pick here, not on the size of the PDF.

A TIFF page is a grid of pixels, so its size before compression is easy to work out: width times height times the bytes per pixel. Colour uses 3 bytes per pixel, grayscale 1 byte, and black and white only 1 bit, which is one eighth of a byte. That is why black and white files are so much smaller than colour.

Compression then shrinks the file, and how much it shrinks depends on the page. A text page with lots of white space compresses very well with LZW. A page full of photos or fine texture compresses much less, because there are fewer repeating patterns. Two pages at the same DPI can therefore give very different file sizes.

The result list shows the size of every TIFF, its number of pages and its DPI. If a file is larger than a system allows, go back, choose Black & white or Grayscale, or a lower DPI, and convert again. Your PDF stays in the list, so there is no need to add it again.

Archives, records offices and document management systems often store pages as TIFF because the format is simple, open and well documented. A baseline TIFF written today can still be read decades from now, and lossless compression means nothing is lost when a page is saved, copied or moved between systems.

When a records system asks for TIFF, it usually gives a resolution and a colour mode. 300 DPI is the most common request for text documents. Black and white is common for plain text records, grayscale for documents with signatures, stamps or handwriting, and colour when colour matters, for example in maps, photos or colour-coded forms. Set the same values on this page and the TIFF will match.

Many systems also prefer one file per document rather than one file per page, because it keeps the pages together. That is the default here. If your system indexes each page separately, choose One TIFF per page instead, and every page gets a clear, numbered file name.

Converting PDF to TIFF for fax is still a common task. Many fax servers, e-fax services and multifunction printers accept TIFF files, and the classic fax format is a black and white TIFF at about 200 DPI. Standard fax works at roughly 200 by 100 dots per inch and fine mode at roughly 200 by 200, so 200 DPI matches the fax's own detail.

For a fax, choose 200 DPI, Black & white (1-bit) and one multi-page TIFF per PDF. If the text looks too thin, move the Threshold slider up a little; if grey backgrounds turn into speckles, move it down. Then download the TIFF and attach it in your fax software or online fax service.

Please note one honest limit: this converter writes black and white pages with LZW compression, not with CCITT Group 3 or Group 4 fax compression. Most fax software and e-fax services accept any standard TIFF and convert it themselves when they send. A few strict fax servers only accept Group 4 TIFF; if yours does, it will reject the file, and you will need that system's own import or a program that writes Group 4.

If your fax service accepts PDF directly, sending the PDF is often simpler. Use the TIFF when the service asks for TIFF or when you want to see exactly how each page will look in black and white before you send it.

People search for PDF to TIFF for ArcGIS when they have a map, a site plan or a scanned survey sheet as a PDF and want to use it as a raster layer. ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap, QGIS and other GIS programs open TIFF images directly, and they can work with the LZW-compressed TIFF made here.

Be aware that this converter makes a normal TIFF image, not a GeoTIFF. Even if the PDF was a geospatial PDF with coordinates, those coordinates are not carried into the TIFF. You add the location yourself in the GIS program with its georeferencing tools: place a few control points on known positions, such as road crossings or grid corners, and the program fits the image to the map.

For good georeferencing, use 300 or 600 DPI so that small labels and thin lines stay readable, choose Colour for coloured maps, and convert only the map page with Some pages. A higher DPI gives more precise control points, but larger files, so 300 DPI is a sensible start for most sheets.

If your PDF already contains real geographic coordinates and you need to keep them, a GIS program that imports geospatial PDF directly is the better route. This page is the quick way to get a clean, high-resolution image of the map that you georeference yourself.

Before you convert, check what the receiving system asks for. Most requirements fit in one line: a resolution, a colour mode, sometimes a compression and whether it wants one file per document or one per page. Write those down, set them on this page, and the TIFF will match.

If no requirements are given, the defaults are a safe choice: 300 DPI, Colour, LZW and one multi-page TIFF per PDF. If the file is too large, switch to Grayscale or Black & white first, and only then lower the DPI. After converting, open one TIFF to check that the pages look right before you send a large batch.

If you have been looking for a PDF to TIFF converter free of sign-ups, watermarks and daily limits, this is it. There is no account to make, no email to enter and no watermark on the pages. You can convert as many PDFs as you like, up to 20 at a time.

It can be free because the work is done by your own browser, not by a paid server. That also means there is no queue and no waiting for an upload. The speed depends on your device, the number of pages and the DPI: a few pages at 300 DPI take seconds, while hundreds of pages at 600 DPI take longer. A Stop button lets you cancel at any moment.

You can convert PDF to TIFF online free on any device with a modern browser: Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook, iPhone, iPad and Android. Open this page, add the PDF and press Convert to TIFF. There is nothing to install and no app to download.

On iPhone and iPad, tap Select PDF files and pick the PDF from Files, iCloud Drive or another app. The TIFF goes to your Downloads folder in Files. On Android, the TIFF lands in your Downloads folder. On a computer, you can also drop files on the box, paste a PDF with Ctrl+V and start the conversion with Ctrl+Enter.

Phones have less memory than computers, so very large pages at 600 DPI may be made at a lower DPI on a phone. The converter tells you when that happens. For big drawings or long documents at high DPI, a computer is the better choice. Your settings are remembered on your device, so next time the page opens with the same choices.

TIFF is read by almost every image and document program. On a Mac, Preview opens multi-page TIFF files and shows the pages in the sidebar. On Windows, the Photos app opens TIFF files, and document viewers and image editors show every page. Photoshop, GIMP, Affinity Photo, IrfanView, XnView and many document management and scanning programs read TIFF with LZW without any extra setup.

Phones can open TIFF too, but support varies. On iPhone and iPad, the Files app shows a preview of the TIFF. On Android, some gallery apps show only the first page of a multi-page TIFF, so use a document viewer or a file manager with a TIFF viewer if you need to check every page.

If a program shows only the first page, it usually does not support multi-page TIFF. In that case, convert again with One TIFF per page, and every page becomes its own file that any program can open.

Because the DPI is stored in the TIFF, a page prints at its real size. An A4 page made at 300 DPI prints as A4, and a Letter page prints as Letter, as long as your print dialog is set to print at actual size rather than to fill the page.

For normal office printing, 300 DPI is enough; a laser or inkjet printer will not show more detail from a higher value on a page of text. For large-format prints of drawings, maps or posters, use 600 DPI, or a custom value that your print shop asks for. Colour mode keeps colours as they appear on screen; the print shop may adjust them for their printer.

If a PDF is protected with an open password, it shows a password box in the file list. Type the password and press Open. The PDF is opened in your browser with that password and converted as usual; the password is not sent anywhere. If the password is wrong, you see a note and can try again. If you do not know the password, the PDF cannot be opened. If you want a copy without the password for later, Unlock PDF can remove it when you know it.

Scanned PDFs work just like any other PDF: each page is already a picture, and it becomes a TIFF page at the DPI you choose. Picking a DPI higher than the scan does not add detail, so for scans 300 DPI is usually enough. Note that a TIFF is an image, so the text in it cannot be selected or searched, even if it could in the PDF.

Many scanning and OCR tools take TIFF as input, and some only take TIFF. OCR reads the shapes of letters, so clean, sharp pages give the best results. 300 DPI is the usual recommendation for normal text. For very small print, such as footnotes or contract fine print, 400 DPI with Custom or 600 DPI can help.

Grayscale usually gives OCR the most information to work with, because the soft edges of letters are kept. Black & white also works well for clean, printed text and makes much smaller files; if letters look broken, raise the Threshold before converting. Colour is only needed when the colour itself matters.

Remember that OCR is not part of this page: the TIFF holds the page as an image. Your OCR program reads that image and creates the searchable text.

Yes. The conversion runs entirely in your browser. Your PDF is read from your device, the pages are drawn and written as TIFF on your device, and the result is saved straight to your downloads. The PDF is not uploaded, so nobody else can see it, and nothing is stored on a server.

There is no account and no sign-in, so there is nothing linking your files to you. The page does not add a watermark, a logo or any hidden text to your TIFF files; they contain only the pages you converted and the settings needed to show them, such as the size, the colour mode and the DPI.

That makes the page a good fit for private documents such as contracts, medical records, bank statements, ID scans and internal drawings. When you close the tab, the files are gone from the page. Only your choice of settings is remembered in your browser, never the files.

The converter opens your PDF with pdf.js, the same PDF engine used in the Firefox browser. Each page you chose is drawn on a white background at the DPI you picked. The pixels are then turned into colour, grey or 1-bit black and white, compressed with LZW or PackBits if you chose one, and written into a standard baseline TIFF file.

For one multi-page TIFF, every page is stored as its own image inside the same file, in order. For one TIFF per page, each page gets its own file. The DPI is saved in the resolution tags of every page. Because the TIFF follows the baseline standard that all readers support, the files open in Windows Photos, macOS Preview, Photoshop, GIMP, document systems and GIS programs alike.

Pages with transparent areas get a white background, which is how they print. Text, vector graphics and images in the PDF all become pixels in the TIFF, which is why the DPI matters: it decides how much detail is kept.

Pages are converted one at a time, so even a long PDF does not need to fit in memory all at once. The progress bar shows the file and the page being worked on. Each page keeps its own size and orientation, so a PDF that mixes portrait and landscape pages, or A4 and A3 pages, gives a TIFF with the same mix.

Match the DPI to the job. 200 DPI for fax, 300 DPI for archives, print and OCR, 600 DPI only for fine detail. A higher DPI than needed only makes the files bigger.

Use Black & white (1-bit) for text pages and Grayscale for scans with shading. Keep Colour for pages where colour carries meaning, such as maps, charts and photos.

Keep LZW unless a system asks for something else. It is lossless, small and read everywhere.

If a system needs the DPI in the file name, open More options and tick Add -300dpi to file names (the number follows your DPI). This helps when you make several versions of the same document.

Before converting a long PDF, try one or two pages with Some pages to check the settings. Then convert the whole document.

Your settings are remembered on this device. If you switch between jobs, such as fax one day and print the next, check the DPI and colour mode before you press Convert to TIFF.

Need a PDF again later? TIFF to PDF turns your TIFF files back into a PDF. To join several PDFs into one before converting, use Merge PDF, and to keep only part of a long document, use Split PDF.

If you need ordinary pictures for sharing rather than TIFF, PDF to JPG and PDF to PNG make smaller images that open everywhere, including chat apps and social networks.