PDF to TIFF
Turn a PDF into one multi-page TIFF - right in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
One file, not ten
A 10-page PDF becomes a single 10-page TIFF, the way fax and archive systems expect it.
Nothing is uploaded
Pages are rendered and encoded on your own device. Contracts and records never leave it.
Resolution and colour you pick
150 to 600 dpi, colour, grayscale or 1-bit black and white, with lossless compression.
No account, no quota
No sign-up, no daily cap, no watermark, no email address required to get your file.
In short: Drop in a PDF, pick a resolution and colour mode, and get back one multi-page TIFF. The conversion runs entirely in your browser, so the file never reaches a server. Most other PDF to TIFF tools either hand you a pile of single-page files or ask you to upload the document first.
Why most PDF to TIFF converters hand you ten files instead of one
If you have already tried to convert PDF to TIFF online, you probably ran into this: you feed in a ten-page document and get back ten separate images, or a ZIP archive you now have to unpack and stitch together yourself. That is not what most people came for. The whole reason to ask for TIFF instead of PNG or JPG is usually that something downstream wants a single file containing every page.
We checked twelve PDF to TIFF tools in September 2026 and the split was remarkably clean. The ones that can produce a genuine multi-page TIFF all require you to upload your document to their servers first. The one tool that runs inside the browser can only write one image per page. Not a single service does both.
The multi-page ones want your file
pdf2tiff describes exactly the right behaviour - all pages rasterised and combined into a single TIFF - but your document goes to their servers and sits there for an hour. CloudConvert does multi-page TIFF properly too, and caps you at 25 conversions a day.
Some admit it only works on the desktop
CoolUtils states on its own page that the online version turns a 10-page PDF into 10 TIFF files, and that multi-page output is a feature of the downloadable program. PDF24 is the same story: its Windows app can write a single multi-page TIFF with LZW compression, its web version cannot.
And the free tiers are thin
Sejda allows 20 pages and three tasks an hour. Zamzar allows two conversions a day. IDRsolutions allows five files a day, wants your email address, and watermarks the result. AvePDF allows two uses every six hours.
The gap, stated plainly
Nobody was offering in-browser processing and single-file multi-page output at the same time. That is the hole this page fills.
None of that is a criticism of rendering quality - several of these are good tools. It is a statement about where the work happens and what lands in your downloads folder.
What a multi-page TIFF is, and when you actually need one
A multi-page TIFF is a single .tif file that holds several images in sequence, one per document page - a stack of pages in one file, much like a PDF, but stored as pixels rather than text and vectors.
Technically, a TIFF file is a chain of image directories. Each directory describes one page and points at the next, which is why a single file can carry a hundred scanned pages without any container around it. Ordinary image formats have no equivalent: PNG and JPG hold exactly one image each, which is why a PDF to TIFF conversion can preserve document structure in a way that a PDF to PNG conversion cannot.
That structure is the entire reason the format survives in 2026. Very little consumer software asks for TIFF any more, but a surprising amount of institutional software still requires it, and requires it as one file.
Where the single-file requirement comes from
Fax and internet fax
The internet fax file format defined in RFC 3949 is built on TIFF, and multi-page faxes have always travelled as one multi-page file. Fax gateways that accept document uploads generally expect exactly that.
Court filing and e-discovery
Many electronic filing systems and litigation review platforms ingest TIFF rather than PDF, because a flattened image cannot carry hidden layers, embedded scripts or revision history.
Medical and government archiving
Records management systems often store one file per document. Handing them a folder of loose page images means someone has to reassemble the document by hand, and page order gets lost.
Prepress and print shops
Some older print workflows take TIFF directly, at a fixed resolution, with no fonts to substitute and nothing left to interpret.
If none of those apply to you, be honest with yourself about whether you need this conversion at all. A PDF is smaller, keeps its text, and opens everywhere. Converting PDF to TIFF is worth doing when something specific is asking for it - not as a general-purpose way to make a document more portable.
How to convert PDF to TIFF in your browser
There is no installation, no account and no upload step. The PDF is opened by your browser, each page is drawn to a canvas, and the resulting pixels are written into a TIFF file on the spot.
- 1
Drop in your PDF
Drag the file onto the box above or click to browse. The page count appears immediately and the first few pages are previewed as thumbnails. Files up to 200 pages are supported; beyond that a browser tab runs out of memory during rendering.
- 2
Choose output, resolution and colour
Leave the output on one multi-page TIFF unless you specifically want separate files. Pick a resolution - 300 dpi is the common archive requirement - then choose colour, grayscale or 1-bit black and white. The estimated file size updates as you go.
- 3
Convert and download
Press convert. Pages are processed one at a time with a running counter, and the finished file downloads straight from your browser. Choosing separate files instead gives you a ZIP with one numbered TIFF per page.
You can also convert a subset of pages. Tick the page range box and enter something like 1-5, 8, 11-13 - useful when you only need a few pages of a long report in TIFF form.
Choosing resolution, colour mode and compression
These three settings decide both how the output looks and how big it gets, and the size differences between them are not subtle. A page that is 2 MB at one setting can be 60 MB at another.
Resolution: 150 to 600 dpi
Resolution is the number of pixels per inch used to rasterise each page, and file size grows with its square - 600 dpi produces four times the data of 300 dpi, not twice. Use 150 dpi for on-screen reference copies, 200 dpi for routine document handling, 300 dpi when an archive or filing standard specifies it, which most do, and 600 dpi only for fine line art or when someone has explicitly asked for it.
Colour: RGB, grayscale or 1-bit
Colour keeps everything as full RGB. Grayscale drops the colour channels and lands at roughly a third of the size, which is usually invisible on a text document. Black and white is the interesting one: it stores a single bit per pixel, so a page is around 24 times smaller than the colour version before compression even starts. It is the format faxes and scanners have always used for text, and it is a poor choice for anything with photographs or shading.
Compression: Deflate or none
Deflate is lossless - it makes the file smaller without changing a single pixel, and it is what you want almost always. The uncompressed option exists because a small number of very old or very rigid systems refuse anything else. If you are not sure, leave Deflate on; you can always convert again. This tool does not offer CCITT Group 4, the fax-specific compression, and the section below is honest about that.
The size estimate is measured, not guessed
The estimate shown above the convert button is produced by genuinely encoding the first page at your current settings and multiplying by the page count. That matters because compression ratios vary enormously with content: a page of text might compress twenty times over, a page of photographs barely at all. A lookup table would give you a number that is wrong by an order of magnitude on half of all documents. Because it extrapolates from one page, the final file can still differ from the estimate - but it will be in the right neighbourhood.
Your TIFF will be much larger than your PDF
This surprises almost everyone, and none of the twelve tools we looked at mentions it anywhere on the page. A three-page PDF of 180 KB can easily become a 12 MB TIFF. Nothing has gone wrong when that happens.
The reason is what rasterising does. In a PDF, a paragraph of text is stored as instructions: use this font, at this size, put these characters at these positions. That description is tiny no matter how large the page is. Converting PDF to TIFF throws the instructions away and records the result as a grid of pixels - and a 300 dpi A4 page is 2480 by 3508 pixels, which is over 26 MB of raw colour data before any compression is applied.
Deflate compression claws a lot of that back, especially on text pages with large white areas. Switching from colour to grayscale cuts it again, and 1-bit black and white cuts it dramatically. A scanned text document at 300 dpi in 1-bit is often smaller than people expect. But a colour brochure at 600 dpi will produce a very large file, and no setting will change that - the pixels genuinely are that numerous.
This is why the size estimate sits right above the convert button rather than in a help page. Seeing that a conversion is about to produce 400 MB is much more useful before you start it than after.
What this tool cannot do
Every conversion loses something. Here is what you give up, stated up front rather than discovered afterwards.
The text stops being text
After conversion the words are pixels. You cannot search the file, select a sentence, or copy a paragraph out of it. Screen readers cannot read it. This is inherent to rasterising and applies to every PDF to TIFF converter, not just this one. If you need a searchable document afterwards, run OCR on it.
No CCITT Group 4 compression
Group 4 is the compression faxes use for black and white pages, and it is more efficient than Deflate on that specific kind of content. This version offers Deflate and uncompressed only. If a system has told you in writing that it requires Group 4 specifically, this tool will not satisfy it.
Password-protected PDFs will not open
If the document needs a password to open, its pages cannot be rendered and the conversion stops with a clear message. Remove the password first - which requires knowing it - and then convert.
Very old software may still object
The files produced here are standard baseline TIFF and open correctly in the image viewers, editors and libraries we tested against. A proprietary system from decades ago may still be particular about what it accepts. Switching compression off is the most compatible setting available if you hit that.
Add a searchable text layer — Run the original PDF through OCR before converting, or convert first and OCR the result afterwards.
PDF to TIFF tools compared
Checked in September 2026 by using each tool. Free-tier behaviour only - several of these offer more on paid plans or in desktop software.
| Tool | Where it runs | Free limits | Single multi-page file |
|---|---|---|---|
| This page | Your browser | 200 pages, no quota | Yes, by default |
| Drawboard | Your browser | Not stated | No - one file per page |
| pdf2tiff | Their server | 200 MB, 20 files | Yes |
| CloudConvert | Their server | 25 conversions a day | Yes |
| CoolUtils | Their server | 50 MB | No - desktop app only |
| CleverPDF | Their server | 20 MB | No - ZIP of pages |
| Sejda | Their server | 20 pages, 3 tasks an hour | No |
| IDRsolutions | Their server | 5 files a day, email required | Not stated |
| Zamzar | Their server | 2 conversions a day | No |
The honest reading of this table is that plenty of these tools convert PDF to TIFF perfectly well. What none of them does is combine keeping the document on your machine with giving you one file at the end. If your document is a contract, a medical record or a filing, that combination is the whole point.
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PDF to TIFF questions
The things people actually ask before converting.
Is it really free, and what are the limits?
Yes - no account, no daily quota, no watermark and no email address. The only real limit is 200 pages per document, which exists because rendering more than that at high resolution exhausts the memory a browser tab is allowed to use. Split a longer document first and convert the parts.
Are my files uploaded anywhere?
No. The conversion happens entirely inside this page. Your PDF is read by your own browser, rendered by your own device, and the TIFF is assembled in memory before being handed to your downloads folder. Nothing is transmitted, so there is no retention period to worry about and no copy to delete.
Do I get one multi-page TIFF or separate files?
One multi-page TIFF by default - that is the point of this page. Every page goes into a single .tif file in order. If you would rather have separate images, switch the output setting and you will get a ZIP containing one numbered TIFF per page instead.
What resolution should I pick?
300 dpi unless you have been told otherwise. It is the figure most archiving and filing standards name, and it renders small text cleanly. Drop to 150 dpi for reference copies you only need on screen, and reach for 600 dpi only for fine line art - it quadruples the file size relative to 300 dpi.
Why is my TIFF so much bigger than the PDF?
Because rasterising replaces compact instructions with actual pixels. A PDF stores text as font references and coordinates, which stay tiny at any page size. A TIFF stores the rendered result: a 300 dpi A4 page is 2480 by 3508 pixels. Grayscale, 1-bit black and white, and a lower resolution all bring it down substantially.
Can I still search or copy the text afterwards?
No - after conversion the text is part of the image. This is true of any PDF to TIFF conversion, not a shortcoming of this one. If you need searchable output, run the document through OCR, which adds a text layer back over the pixels.
Can I convert a password-protected PDF?
Not while the password is still on it. An encrypted PDF cannot be rendered, so the conversion stops and tells you why. Remove the password first, which requires knowing it, and then convert normally.
How do I turn a TIFF back into a PDF?
Use the reverse tool - and multi-page TIFFs stay multi-page. Each page of the TIFF becomes a page of the PDF, and several TIFF files can be merged into one document at the same time. It also runs entirely in your browser.
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