PDF to TIFF Converter

Why Convert PDF to TIFF?

PDF is the everyday document format, but many professional systems still run on TIFF. Document-management and records systems in banks, insurance companies, hospitals, courts and government offices often store pages as TIFF images. Some fax gateways and e-filing portals accept only TIFF. Archives prefer TIFF for long-term preservation because it is a simple, well-documented, lossless image format that doesn't depend on fonts or embedded software. And print, imaging and OCR workflows frequently expect TIFF input.

This PDF to TIFF converter (PDF से TIFF) renders every page of your PDF in your browser and saves it as a high-quality TIFF — either one multi-page TIFF containing the whole document, or one TIFF per page. You choose the resolution and colour mode, and the files are written with lossless LZW compression and the correct DPI tag. Your PDF never leaves your device.

How to Use It

1. Choose the resolution: 200 DPI for documents, 300 DPI for print and OCR, 150 or 96 DPI for smaller on-screen files.
2. Choose colour or greyscale: greyscale makes text documents much smaller.
3. Choose the output: one multi-page TIFF, or one TIFF per page delivered as a ZIP.
4. Drop your PDF (up to 100 MB). The file name and page count appear.
5. Press Download TIFF. A progress line shows each page as it is rendered, then the file downloads.

Choosing the Right DPI

A PDF describes pages with vectors and fonts that can be drawn at any size. A TIFF is a fixed grid of pixels, so you must decide how many pixels per inch to use. Higher DPI means sharper text and larger files:

The DPI you pick is also written into each TIFF, so printers and imaging software know the true page size: an A4 PDF page comes out as an A4 TIFF page. Very large pages (such as engineering drawings or posters) are automatically limited to about 40 megapixels to stay within browser memory. For those pages only, the resolution is lowered and the DPI tag is adjusted to match, so they still print at their true size.

One Multi-Page TIFF or a TIFF per Page?

• One multi-page TIFF keeps the whole document together in a single .tif file, just like the PDF. This is what most document-management systems, fax gateways and archives expect.
• One TIFF per page gives separate files named in order — report-page1.tif, report-page2.tif and so on (with leading zeros for longer documents, so they sort correctly) — delivered together in a ZIP. Choose this when a system wants one image per upload, or when you only need certain pages.

Colour or Greyscale?

Most business documents — letters, forms, invoices, statements — are black text on white paper. Storing them in colour wastes space, because each pixel takes three bytes instead of one. Greyscale writes a true 8-bit grey TIFF (one channel), which is typically around a third of the size of the colour version before compression and keeps smooth anti-aliased text edges. Choose Colour for brochures, photos, charts, stamps, signatures in blue ink and anything where colour carries meaning. If you need the PDF itself in grey, our Grayscale PDF tool does that without converting to images.

Lossless LZW Compression

Each page is compressed with LZW plus the TIFF horizontal predictor — the standard lossless method supported by virtually all TIFF software. Text pages with large white areas compress very well; photo-heavy pages less so. Because the compression is lossless, the TIFF contains exactly the pixels that were rendered. The encoder was written for this site and tested pixel-for-pixel against libtiff, the reference TIFF library used by most imaging applications, including multi-page and greyscale files.

A Note on Fax TIFFs

Classic fax machines use 1-bit black-and-white TIFFs compressed with CCITT Group 4. This tool produces colour or 8-bit greyscale TIFFs with LZW compression instead, which most modern e-fax services and document systems accept. If a legacy system strictly requires CCITT G4, convert the greyscale TIFF in the fax software you use; the greyscale output gives it the cleanest starting point.

Common Uses

• Records and document-management systems in banks, insurance, healthcare and government that store TIFF images.
• E-filing and fax portals that list TIFF as an accepted or required format.
• Long-term archiving of reports, theses and records as simple lossless images.
• OCR and imaging pipelines that take TIFF input at 300 DPI.
• Printing and prepress where a raster TIFF of each page is needed.
• Legal discovery and evidence workflows that exchange documents as TIFF images.

Worked Example

An insurance portal asks you to upload claim documents as a single multi-page TIFF at 200 DPI, greyscale. You have claim.pdf with 8 pages. Choose 200 DPI, Greyscale and "One multi-page TIFF", drop the PDF and press Download TIFF. Each A4 page is rendered at 1654 × 2339 pixels, converted to grey and compressed, and you receive claim.tif with all 8 pages and a 200 DPI tag — exactly what the portal requested.

Large PDFs and Memory

Rendering pages at 300 DPI produces a lot of pixel data — about 35 MB of raw pixel data (four bytes per pixel in the browser) for a single A4 page. To keep browsers stable, the converter renders, compresses and releases one page at a time, so only the compressed TIFF data stays in memory. You can convert PDFs of up to 100 MB and 200 pages. Long documents at 300 DPI in colour can still produce very large TIFFs; greyscale or 200 DPI makes them much more manageable. A desktop browser with plenty of RAM handles the biggest jobs best.

Opening and Using the TIFF

On Windows, the Photos app and the classic Windows Photo Viewer open TIFFs, and multi-page files can be paged through in most document viewers. On a Mac, Preview shows every page of a multi-page TIFF in its sidebar. Professional tools — Photoshop, GIMP, Acrobat, IrfanView, document-management clients and OCR software — read them directly. If someone later needs a PDF again, our TIFF to PDF converter turns the TIFF back into a PDF at the same page size, because the DPI tag records the real dimensions. Keep the original PDF as well: it holds searchable text and sharp vector graphics, while the TIFF is a faithful picture of each page.

Protected and Scanned PDFs

• Password-protected PDFs can't be opened without the password. If you know it, remove it first with Unlock PDF.
• Scanned PDFs work perfectly — each page is already an image and is simply re-rendered at your chosen DPI. Rendering above the scan's original resolution won't add detail.
• Forms and annotations visible on the page are included as they appear.

Privacy

Documents converted to TIFF are often official — claims, records, legal filings. This tool uses Mozilla's open-source pdf.js renderer and our own TIFF encoder, both running in your browser. Your PDF is never uploaded, logged or stored, and the output is created on your own device.

Troubleshooting

• "This PDF is password-protected": unlock it first with the password.
• The TIFF is very large: choose greyscale and/or 200 DPI.
• Only 200 pages converted: split longer PDFs with Split PDF and convert each part.
• Text looks soft: choose 300 DPI.
• A system rejects the file: check whether it needs per-page files or 1-bit fax TIFFs.

Tips

• Check the requirement of the receiving system — DPI, colour mode and single or multi-page — before converting.
• Use greyscale for text, and colour for photos, charts, coloured stamps and blue-ink signatures.
• Need images for the web? PDF to JPG makes much smaller files that open instantly in any browser.

Works on Any Device

Use it in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iPhone with no installation. Phones handle short documents well; long, high-DPI conversions are faster on a computer.

Quick Glossary

• Rendering: drawing a PDF page as pixels at a chosen resolution.
• Multi-page TIFF: a single TIFF file holding several page images.
• LZW: lossless compression widely used in TIFF.
• Greyscale: images made of shades of grey, using one byte per pixel.

Why Use This Converter?

Real multi-page TIFFs, the DPI and colour mode you need, verified lossless output, low memory use and full privacy — free. Related tools: TIFF to PDF, PDF to JPG and JPG to TIFF.

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