TIF to PDF Converter

Office scanners, fax servers and document-imaging systems love TIFF, often packing a whole document into one multi-page .tif file. Most people receiving it can't open it on a phone, and many upload portals don't accept it.

This tool converts TIF and TIFF files to PDF in your browser. It decodes every frame of multi-page TIFFs with the UTIF library, so a 12-page fax becomes a 12-page PDF, and it can combine several TIFF files into one document in upload order or sorted by file name.

Each page is stored in the PDF as a JPEG at the quality you pick, which keeps scans readable while making the PDF far smaller than an uncompressed TIFF. Nothing is uploaded.

Typical sources are a network scanner's “scan to folder” output, an e-fax inbox, a hospital or court records export, and archive scans from a digitisation project. All of those commonly produce multi-page TIFFs with fax-style compression, which is exactly the case many simple image converters get wrong by converting only the first page.

How It Works

1. Add TIF/TIFF files — up to 20, single-page or multi-page. Each file is read in the browser.
2. Choose options — page size (fit to image, A4, Letter, A3, Legal), orientation (automatic, portrait, landscape), image fit, margin, JPEG quality (50–95%) and page order (as added or by file name).
3. Convert — UTIF decodes every frame to RGBA pixels; each frame is drawn to a canvas, encoded as JPEG and placed on its own page with PDF-Lib.

Compatibility & Support

Supported Input → Output Formats

• Input: .tif, .tiff — single and multi-page, uncompressed, LZW, PackBits and CCITT fax (Group 3/4)
• Output: one PDF, one page per TIFF frame
• Quality: JPEG at 50%, 70%, 85% or 95%

Unsupported Formats

TIFFs using JPEG-in-TIFF (old-style “OJPEG”) compression, 16-bit or 32-bit float scientific images, and CMYK TIFFs from print workflows may decode incorrectly or not at all. GeoTIFF location data and TIFF tags are not carried into the PDF. If a file fails, open it in an image editor and re-save it as a standard TIFF or PNG.

File Size Limits

Up to 20 files per PDF, each of which may contain many pages. A single A4 page scanned at 300 DPI is about 8.7 megapixels, so a 100-page TIFF is decoded one page at a time to stay within browser memory; very large archives may still be slow on phones.

Bi-level fax pages compress extremely well; colour scans at 95% quality produce the largest PDFs, so 85% is the best default for most documents.

Who Should Use This Tool?

• Students: A student converts a multi-page TIFF of scanned library chapters into one PDF to annotate on a tablet.
• Freelancers & Designers: A freelance archivist converts client-provided TIFF scans of old letters into shareable PDFs.
• Office Professionals: A legal assistant converts fax-server TIFFs into PDFs for the case management system.
• Developers: A developer converts TIFF output from a document-imaging API into PDF to check it on any device.

Why This Tool Beats the Alternatives

• Handles multi-page and fax-compressed TIFFs, not just simple single images.
• Private — scanned records aren't sent to a server.
• Much smaller PDFs than embedding raw TIFF data.
• Free, no watermark, no account.
• Name-based sorting for large sets of numbered scans.

Pro Tips

• Name scans 001, 002, 003 and choose “Sort by filename” so pages end up in the right order, even when you select the files in a random order.
• Use 70% quality for text-only scans and 85–95% for photos or documents with fine print; black-and-white fax pages look identical at any setting, so pick the lowest for the smallest file.
• Need searchable text afterwards? Run the PDF through Extract Text (OCR), which reads the scanned pages and gives you copyable text.

Add your TIF or TIFF files above and download a single PDF.