Convert TIFF to PDF

A scanner or a fax server produced a multi-page TIFF and every system downstream expects a PDF instead.

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    What actually changes

    TIFF and PDF are not the same picture in two wrappers.

    Each TIFF page becomes a PDF page at the same aspect ratio. A bitonal fax TIFF can keep its CCITT Group 4 compression inside the PDF, so the document often converts with no size increase at all.

    Worth knowing first

    The PDF contains images, not text. It looks like a document and behaves like a photograph: nothing is searchable or selectable until OCR is run over it.

    Questions

    TIFF to PDF, answered

    Does the page order stay the same?

    Yes. The pages inside a multi-page TIFF are ordered, and that order carries into the PDF.

    Can I make it searchable?

    Run OCR on the resulting PDF. That adds an invisible text layer over the scan without changing how the page looks.

    How to convert TIFF to PDF

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    Add your files

    Drop one TIFF or two hundred. Batch conversion is not a paid feature here.

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    Choose your settings

    Portable Document Format is lossy, so the quality control decides the trade between size and fidelity.

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    Download

    Converted and deleted the moment it finishes. Never written to permanent storage.

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