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title: PDF to TIFF
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description: Convert PDF pages to TIFF images, commonly used in print, fax, and archival workflows. Falls back to PNG if encoding fails.
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# PDF to TIFF
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Converts each page of a PDF into a TIFF image. TIFF is the standard format for print production, fax systems, and document archival. The tool uses PackBits compression for TIFF encoding and falls back to PNG if a page fails to encode.
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## How It Works
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1. Upload a PDF by clicking the drop zone or dragging a file onto it.
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2. Click **Convert** to process the file.
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3. A single TIFF file or a ZIP archive downloads automatically.
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## Options
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This tool has no configurable options. Pages render at a fixed 2x scale.
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## Output Format
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- **Single page**: `filename.tiff`
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- **Multiple pages**: `filename_tiffs.zip` containing `page_1.tiff`, `page_2.tiff`, etc.
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If TIFF encoding fails for a specific page (due to compression issues), that page is saved as a `.png` file instead. The ZIP will contain a mix of TIFF and PNG files in that case.
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## Use Cases
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- Submitting documents to government agencies or legal systems that require TIFF format.
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- Preparing pages for fax transmission through digital fax services.
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- Archiving scanned documents in a widely supported lossless format.
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- Feeding pages into enterprise document management systems.
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## Tips
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- TIFF files are large. If you only need lossless quality for web or screen use, [PDF to PNG](./pdf-to-png) is a better choice.
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- Check the ZIP contents if some pages needed the PNG fallback -- you may want to convert those separately.
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## Related Tools
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- [PDF to PNG](./pdf-to-png)
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- [PDF to BMP](./pdf-to-bmp)
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- [PDF to JPG](./pdf-to-jpg)
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