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Convert PDF to TIFF
A document management system, a fax gateway or a court filing system takes TIFF and rejects PDF.
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What actually changes
PDF and TIFF are not the same picture in two wrappers.
Each PDF page is rendered to a raster at a chosen DPI and stored as a page inside a single multi-page TIFF. Vector text becomes pixels, so the resolution you pick is the resolution you keep.
Worth knowing first
200 DPI bitonal is the convention these systems expect and it produces small files with CCITT Group 4 compression. Rendering the same document at 600 DPI in colour can make the TIFF larger than the PDF by a factor of fifty.
Questions
PDF to TIFF, answered
What DPI should I choose?
200 for records and fax workflows, 300 if the output will be OCRed or reprinted. Higher is rarely useful and always expensive.
Is the text still searchable?
No. A TIFF is a picture of the page. Anything that needs to search it has to OCR it first.
How to convert PDF to TIFF
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Tagged Image File is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the conversion.
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Converted and deleted the moment it finishes. Never written to permanent storage.