Files never leave your device.How it works
How to convert PDF to TIFF
- 1Drop your PDF above (or click to select).
- 2Choose a resolution (300 DPI is common for print/archive).
- 3Click Convert, then download the images — all pages at once as a .zip.
Frequently asked questions
- Do my files get uploaded?
- No. Rendering happens entirely in your browser — your PDF never leaves your device.
- Why TIFF?
- TIFF is a high-quality format common in publishing, archiving, and document management systems. It's larger than JPG but keeps full detail.
- One TIFF per page?
- Yes — each page becomes its own TIFF file, and you can download them all at once as a ZIP.
High-quality page images
TIFF is the format archives, print shops, and document systems ask for. PDF to TIFF renders each page of your file to a TIFF right in the browser, then hands them all back individually or as one ZIP for the whole document.
Resolution matters
For archiving and print, 300 DPI is the usual choice; 150 DPI is fine for on-screen. Higher DPI captures more detail at the cost of larger files. Every page is encoded losslessly, so nothing about the image is thrown away.
Notes and limits
Rendering runs in a background worker, so long documents won't freeze the tab. Password-protected PDFs must be unlocked first, and everything is processed locally — nothing is uploaded.
Why archives and courts specifically ask for TIFF
Long-term archival standards used by libraries, government agencies, and legal document management systems were largely written around TIFF because it supports lossless compression, embeds color and resolution metadata reliably, and has stayed backward-compatible for decades — a scanned contract saved as TIFF today should still open correctly in twenty years. That's different from JPG, which was designed for efficient sharing rather than long-term fidelity, and can degrade slightly if re-saved.
Where TIFF still shows up in practice
Beyond archiving, TIFF remains common in medical imaging systems, professional printing and prepress workflows, fax-to-document gateways, and older enterprise document management systems that were built around it. If a records department, print shop, or compliance system specifically asked for TIFF rather than "an image," this is usually why.
One file per page, not one multi-page file
This tool outputs one TIFF file per page rather than a single multi-page TIFF container. For most archiving and document-management workflows that expect page-by-page files this is exactly right, but if you specifically need a single multi-page TIFF, you'll need software built for that container format rather than a page-image converter like this one.
Choosing between TIFF and other lossless options
If your destination doesn't specifically require TIFF, PDF to PNG produces similarly lossless, full-detail images with broader compatibility in everyday apps and browsers, often with smaller files than TIFF at the same resolution. And if you already have a folder of TIFF pages and want them back in one document, use TIFF to PDF.