This PDF to TIFF converter turns every page of a PDF into a lossless TIFF image — the archival standard for legal, medical, print, and government document workflows. Drop a PDF onto the tool above, pick a render scale, and each page is rendered to an uncompressed TIFF you can download individually or as a single ZIP. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using Mozilla’s open-source PDF.js parser and the photopea/UTIF.js encoder. Nothing is uploaded to a server, no account is required, and no watermark is applied. TIFFs are large files by design — they preserve every pixel without compression — so expect each A4 page at 2× scale to land around 3–8 MB.
When TIFF is the right output for a PDF
TIFF was designed in 1986 as the universal interchange format for scanned and high-fidelity images, and it has remained the dominant archival format ever since. If your PDF needs to be stored, printed, faxed, e-discovered, or handed to a system that explicitly expects TIFF, this tool produces files that any TIFF viewer from the last 30 years can read. The format is lossless — no compression artifacts, no color drift, exact pixel values preserved. For workflows where fidelity matters more than file size, that is exactly the trade-off you want.
For most other use cases, TIFF is overkill. Files are 5–10× larger than the equivalent JPG, 3–5× larger than the equivalent PNG, and even bigger relative to WebP or AVIF. If you are converting a PDF for web embedding, email, or general sharing, our PDF to PNG, PDF to JPG, or PDF to WebP converters produce much smaller files with no visible quality loss. Use this PDF to TIFF converter when the workflow specifically requires TIFF.
How to convert PDF to TIFF
- Drop your PDF onto the drop zone at the top of this page, or click to browse. You can queue several PDFs and they will be converted sequentially.
- Pick a render scale. 1× is roughly 72 DPI for screen-only use; 2× is the default at 144 DPI; 3× is 216 DPI for archival or large-format print. There is no quality slider — TIFF is lossless, so the only fidelity knob is resolution.
- Click Convert. Each page is rendered to a TIFF in turn — the progress bar shows the current page. When done, every page appears as its own download card; multi-page outputs also get a Download All as ZIP button.
Need only specific pages? Type a range like 1-3,5,8-10 in the Pages field. Leave the field blank to convert every page.
PDF to TIF for legal e-discovery
Legal e-discovery production typically requires single-page TIFF images, one per page, alongside a load file describing the document boundaries. This tool produces exactly that: a ZIP of TIFFs named {document}-page-NN.tif with zero-padded page numbers, ready to drop into a Relativity, iCONECT, or Concordance load. The PDF source never leaves your machine, which matters for privileged or work-product material that cannot be sent to a third-party server. For especially sensitive matters, you can disconnect from the internet after this page loads and the conversion still works.
PDF to TIFF for medical imaging
Medical document workflows — radiology reports, lab results, chart exports — frequently arrive as PDF but need to be ingested into systems that accept TIFF. The lossless nature of TIFF matters here: any compression that introduces artifacts is a risk on diagnostic content. This PDF to TIFF converter is HIPAA-friendly by design, in the sense that no data leaves the device — but verifying HIPAA compliance for your specific workflow is your responsibility, including any business associate agreements with whatever endpoint receives the TIFFs.
PDF to TIFF for print and scan workflows
Print shops, scan archives, and government document systems often standardize on TIFF for incoming files. The combination of lossless quality, broad viewer support, and predictable structure makes it the format of choice when you do not control the consumer’s software. Render at 3× scale (~216 DPI) for offset print preparation, or 2× scale (~144 DPI) for office laser printing — the higher the scale, the larger the TIFF, but also the sharper the result at full size.
PDF to TIFF for fax conversion
Many fax-to-email gateways accept TIFF as the standard input format because fax itself was originally a TIFF-based protocol. If you need to send a multi-page PDF to a fax destination, converting the pages to TIFF first is often the right preprocessing step. This converter produces a ZIP of single-page TIFFs you can then feed into your fax gateway’s batch input.
Render scale: PDF to TIFF at 72, 144, or 216 DPI
PDF pages are vector documents with no inherent pixel resolution. The render scale tells the converter how many pixels to allocate per PDF unit. Output sizes for a single A4 page (8.27 × 11.69 inches):
| Scale | Approx DPI | Pixel dimensions (A4) | Typical TIFF size | Use case |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1× | 72 | 612 × 792 | 1.5–2.5 MB | Screen preview, low-bandwidth archive |
| 2× | 144 | 1224 × 1584 | 5–9 MB | Default — sharp on retina, office printing |
| 3× | 216 | 1836 × 2376 | 12–22 MB | Archival, e-discovery, large-format print |
For e-discovery and most archival workflows, 2× scale at 144 DPI is the de facto standard — it matches what most legal-tech ingestion systems expect. Go to 3× when you specifically need print fidelity or your downstream system requests 300 DPI equivalent. Stay at 1× only for thumbnails or quick previews; the file-size savings are modest because TIFF does not compress.
Privacy: an in-browser PDF to TIFF converter
Other PDF to TIFF converters online upload your file to a server, run a conversion process, and let you download the result. For documents under legal hold, medical records, or anything else with personal information, that upload is a real risk — you have no audit trail of what happens to the file after the conversion. This converter does not work that way. The PDF is read into your browser’s memory, parsed by JavaScript locally, and rendered to canvases page by page. The TIFFs are built in your browser by UTIF.js. None of that touches a server. We do not log file names, hashes, or any metadata. There are no cookies tied to the tool and no analytics on individual conversions.
File-size expectations
TIFFs from this converter are uncompressed, which means a 10-page color PDF can easily produce 50–80 MB of total TIFF output at 2× scale and 100–200 MB at 3×. This is normal for lossless TIFF and is the trade-off for the format’s fidelity. If your downstream system supports compressed TIFFs (G4 fax compression for monochrome, JPEG-in-TIFF for color, LZW for general use) and you specifically need them, this in-browser converter is not the right tool — you would need a desktop converter like ImageMagick, IrfanView, or Adobe Acrobat. For most legal, medical, and print workflows the uncompressed TIFFs from this converter are acceptable; the size is the standard cost of doing TIFF business.
Compatibility: which viewers open these TIFFs
The TIFFs this converter produces follow the baseline TIFF 6.0 specification — opening cleanly in Windows Photo Viewer, macOS Preview, IrfanView, XnView, GIMP, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, and every modern image library (libtiff, Pillow, ImageMagick). Web browsers do not natively render TIFF, which is by design: TIFF is an archival and print format, not a web format. If you need to embed the converted images on a web page, convert to WebP or PNG instead.
Troubleshooting
“This PDF is password-protected”
Password-protected PDFs cannot be rendered by any browser-based tool. Remove the password using Acrobat, Preview, qpdf, or a print-to-PDF workflow, then drop the unprotected copy back onto this PDF to TIFF converter.
TIFF won’t open in my viewer
The output is a baseline TIFF (uncompressed RGBA, single-image-file-directory per file) — readable by virtually every TIFF viewer. If a specific viewer rejects the file, it is almost always because that viewer expects a specific TIFF variant (G4 fax compression, multi-strip layout, EXIF metadata). Re-saving the TIFF in IrfanView or Photoshop and re-exporting with the variant the consumer wants is the usual fix.
Large PDFs take a long time
TIFF conversion is doubly heavy because both the render and the encode are big operations and the output files themselves are large. A 50-page PDF at 3× scale will produce close to a gigabyte of TIFFs and take a few minutes on a typical laptop. Drop to 2× scale for everyday work; use the Pages field to convert in batches for documents over 100 pages. The Cancel button stops the batch cleanly if you change your mind.
Free, no signup, unlimited PDF to TIFF conversion
No account, no daily quota, no premium tier, no watermark on the output. The PDF to TIFF converter is yours to use as much as you want. If you need other formats for the same PDF — JPG for email, WebP for the web, PNG for screenshots, AVIF for modern web optimization — our PDF to PNG, PDF to JPG, PDF to WebP, and PDF to AVIF converters all work the same way: 100% in your browser, no upload.