Turn scanned TIFF files — including multi-page ones — into PDFs that open on any device, keeping every page in order. Free with clearly published fair-use limits — no sign-up, no watermarks.
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☁️ Server conversion — your file is uploaded securely (HTTPS), converted, and removed from temporary processing storage after the request finishes. Which tools upload, and which do not
TIFF is what scanners, fax servers and document archives produce, and almost nothing else opens it. Attach one to an email and the recipient gets a file their phone will not preview, their browser will not display and their colleague cannot read. PDF is the format all of those handle, and it is the one archives ask for. A multi-page TIFF becomes a multi-page PDF with the pages in the same order, so a twenty-page scanned contract stays one document.
TIFF is the format of scanners, fax archives and print production. It stores images without loss, can hold many pages in one file, and supports compression schemes — CCITT Group 4 for bitonal scans, LZW, PackBits — that no web browser can display. That is its problem: a TIFF is excellent for keeping and useless for sending, because the recipient usually cannot open it.
PDF is the universal document format: it locks layout, fonts and images so a file looks identical on every device and printer. Scans, invoices, forms, e-books and reports all travel as PDF. Because a PDF is a container rather than an image, turning its pages into JPG or PNG pictures — or bundling pictures into a PDF — are among the most common file tasks there are.
| TIFF | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Raster image (multi-page) | Document |
| Compression | None, LZW, PackBits, CCITT G3/G4, Deflate | Mixed (per object) |
| Transparency | Yes (alpha) | — |
| Typical use | Scanning, faxes, archives, print | Documents, scans, invoices, forms |
TIFF is what serious scanning produces. It stores an image without throwing anything away, it can hold a whole document as pages inside one file, and it supports compression schemes designed for scanned paper — Group 4, in particular, which squeezes a page of black-and-white text down to a few tens of kilobytes with no loss at all.
And practically nothing opens it. No browser will display a TIFF. Phones preview them inconsistently at best. Attach one to an email and you have sent a file the recipient has to go and find software for. The archive-quality format and the send-it-to-someone format are not the same format, and converting between them is the whole job here.
This is the part that trips up most converters, which quietly take page one and discard the rest. A scanned twenty-page contract is one TIFF containing twenty images, and it has to come out as one PDF containing twenty pages in the same order — otherwise you have lost nineteen pages of a legal document without being told.
A bitonal scan is almost always CCITT Group 3 or Group 4 encoded — the fax compression schemes. No browser can decode them, which is precisely why an in-browser TIFF converter either refuses those files or hands back a blank page. This conversion runs a full document engine on our server, so Group 3, Group 4, LZW, PackBits, Deflate and uncompressed TIFFs are all handled.
Most tools on this site process the file in the tab you have open. This is one of the exceptions, and the reason is the paragraph above: the decoders simply do not exist in a browser. The file goes over HTTPS to our conversion service, is converted, and comes back; the engine discards its working files as each job finishes. It is worth knowing which side of that line a tool sits on, which is why every server-side tool on this site says so on its own page.
A scanned PDF is still a picture of text — searching it finds nothing until the words have been recognised. Run OCR PDF on the result to make it searchable, or Compress PDF if the scan is larger than it needs to be.
Yes — there is no sign-up, payment or watermark. Server-processed tools use the published file-size, duration and fair-use limits so jobs remain available to everyone; those are technical safeguards, not a paid tier.
Yes. Select or drop as many files as you like — each one is converted in sequence with its own progress status, and you can download the results individually or all together as a ZIP archive.
Yes — this tool needs a full office engine, so your file is sent to our server over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, converted there, and deleted immediately after the PDF is delivered. It is never read for any other purpose, never shared, and never stored. Files up to 50 MB are accepted.
Yes. Bitonal scans compressed with CCITT Group 3 or Group 4 — the fax schemes that no browser can decode — are handled, along with LZW, PackBits, Deflate and uncompressed TIFFs. The conversion runs a full document engine on our server, which is why it manages formats a browser cannot touch.
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