TIFF to PDF Converter

Convert TIFF to PDF Online — Free, No Watermark

To convert TIFF to PDF, upload one or more .tif/.tiff files to our servers, pick a paper size (or "Original" to match the image), and click Convert. A multi-page TIFF — the kind scanners and fax machines produce — becomes a multi-page PDF, one TIFF page per PDF page, then you download the finished file.

Real result: a scanner's multi-page TIFF that only shows page one in Windows Photos opens as a complete, paginated PDF in any browser, email client, or phone. To bundle several formats at once, use Images to PDF.

How to Convert TIFF to PDF Online

1. Upload Your TIFF Files: Click "+ Add Files" or drag and drop one or more .tif/.tiff files. Multi-page TIFFs are accepted as-is — each internal page (IFD) is read and ordered automatically. Add several single-page TIFFs to bundle a scanned set.
2. Pick Combine, Paper size and Page layout: Default is Single PDF on A4 / Portrait. Switch to Individual PDFs to get one PDF per TIFF, choose a paper preset (Letter, Legal, Tabloid, Ledger, A3, A4, ISO B4/B5, Executive, Arch A/B, or Original to match each image's pixel dimensions), and toggle Landscape when the scan is wider than tall.
3. Tune Margin, Image placement, Alignment and Image Compression (Optional): Margin presets are No margin (0"), Narrow (0.5", default), Moderate (0.75x1"), Normal (1"), or Large (2x1"). Set Image placement to Contained (fit inside the page, no crop — the default) or Cover (fill the page, may crop). Pick Top / Center / Bottom alignment. Drop Image Quality below the default 75% if you want a smaller PDF, or push higher for fine print and archival scans. Use Image Transparency: Removed if transparent TIFFs are showing a black background in viewers.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert", then save the resulting PDF (or zipped batch). Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared.

Why Convert TIFF to PDF?

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), published by Aldus in 1986 and frozen at revision 6.0 in 1992 (the spec later passed to Adobe, which acquired Aldus in 1994), is the standard for scanners, fax machines, professional photography, and document imaging. It's lossless and flexible, but most people cannot open a .tif file without installing extra software — Windows Photos handles single-page TIFFs but stumbles on multi-page scans, and macOS Preview opens them but can't share them cleanly. PDF, in contrast, opens in every browser, every phone, every operating system, and every email client without any extra app.

• Universal sharing — A PDF opens in Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Adobe Reader, Apple Preview, Google Drive, Gmail attachments, Microsoft Word, and every modern e-reader. A multi-page TIFF often opens as just the first page in those same tools.
• Multi-page scans stay together — Scanners and copiers commonly output one multi-page TIFF per job. Converting to PDF keeps all pages in order, paginated, and bookmarkable, so a 40-page contract stays a 40-page document instead of forty loose files.
• Receipts, contracts, and tax records — The IRS publishes record-retention windows of 3 to 7 years (and longer in some cases) for business records — bundling a year of scanned TIFF receipts into a single PDF keeps them organised and emailable to your accountant.
• Legal e-filing and medical workflows — Many U.S. federal courts and most insurance carriers require PDF (often PDF/A, the ISO 19005 archival profile finalized in 2005) for submissions; converting from the scanner's native TIFF is the standard handoff.
• Smaller files, same look — A photo-heavy TIFF can be 30–80 MB; the same content as a PDF at 75% image quality is typically 2–10 MB and looks identical on screen. For deeper savings, run the result through Compress PDF.
• Locks edits — PDF flattens the scan so casual recipients cannot retype values inside a quoted invoice or contract.

TIFF vs PDF — When Each Format Wins

Paper Size and Margin Quick Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

My multi-page TIFF only shows the first page in Windows Photos — will all pages convert?

Yes. A multi-page TIFF is a single file with multiple Image File Directories (IFDs) — each IFD is a page. xconvert reads every IFD and writes one PDF page per IFD, in the original order. This is the most common reason people search for TIFF-to-PDF in the first place: Windows Photos and many email previews only render the first IFD, but the rest of the pages are still in the file. After conversion the PDF shows all of them.

Should I keep the LZW/Deflate-compressed TIFF or re-compress when converting?

You can do either. xconvert decodes the TIFF (LZW, ZIP/Deflate, JPEG, PackBits, or CCITT G4 fax) and re-encodes inside the PDF. For pure black-and-white scans (fax, 1-bit document scans), the PDF stays small because the same CCITT compression family is reused. For colour and grayscale photos, the Image Quality slider controls JPEG compression of the embedded image — leave it at 75% for archival-quality output, or drop to 50–60% for emailable file sizes.

Will the converted PDF be searchable (OCR)?

Not by default. xconvert embeds the TIFF as a raster image — the PDF looks identical to the scan but the text is pixels, not selectable characters. To make a PDF searchable you need OCR, which xconvert does not run during this conversion. Open the resulting PDF in Adobe Acrobat ("Scan & OCR > Recognize Text"), Apple Preview's built-in Live Text, or a desktop tool like Tesseract to add a hidden text layer. The visual layout stays the same; OCR just adds invisible text underneath.

Why does my transparent TIFF show a black background in the PDF?

PDF page backgrounds are white, but some PDF viewers render unflattened alpha channels as black. If your TIFF has transparency (an alpha channel) and the output looks wrong, set Image Transparency to Removed before converting — xconvert composites the image onto white before embedding. Logos and document scans with transparency are the typical culprits.

Should I pick "Single PDF" or "Individual PDFs" when I upload several TIFFs?

Single PDF (the default) combines every uploaded TIFF — and every page inside each multi-page TIFF — into one ordered document. Use this for scanned contracts, receipts you want to email as a packet, or chapters of a digitised book. Individual PDFs keeps each input file separate, producing one PDF per TIFF in a zip. Use this when you have unrelated scans (a receipt, a passport, an invoice) that just happen to be in the same upload.

Is this PDF/A compliant for long-term archiving?

The output is standard PDF (currently PDF 1.7 / ISO 32000-1), not the PDF/A archival profile. PDF/A (ISO 19005, first published in 2005) forbids transparency in older levels, requires embedded fonts, and bans encryption — guarantees that matter for 50-year records retention but not for everyday sharing. For statutory archiving (court e-filing, regulatory submissions, hospital records), open the converted PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro or use a desktop tool to "Save As PDF/A" — most converters of any kind output regular PDF and require a separate conversion step.

What's the largest TIFF I can convert?

Standard TIFFs are capped at about 4 GiB by the format's 32-bit offsets; BigTIFF extends that to 18 EiB but is rare outside GIS and microscopy. xconvert handles single TIFFs up to several hundred megabytes; for very large multi-gigabyte scans, downscale or split the source first. If the original is already a PDF and you only need a smaller one, Compress PDF avoids re-encoding twice.

Can I convert just specific pages of a multi-page TIFF?

Upload the TIFF, then drag the page thumbnails to reorder or delete the ones you don't need before clicking Convert. To export each page as an image instead of stacking them into a PDF, use TIFF to JPG — each IFD becomes a separate JPEG. To go the other direction (extracting TIFFs from a finished PDF), see PDF to TIFF.

What if my files are JPG or PNG, not TIFF?

Use the equivalent tools — JPG to PDF and PNG to PDF — or the broader Merge Image to PDF workflow, which accepts a mix of formats (TIFF, JPG, PNG, BMP, HEIC) and bundles them into one PDF with the same margin / paper size / placement controls.