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How to Convert TIFF to PDF

TIFF is the archival image format used in scanning, medical imaging, and print production. Converting TIFF to PDF is essential for sharing scanned documents, combining multiple TIFF pages into a single document, and meeting requirements for submissions that accept PDF but not TIFF. Multi-page TIFFs convert cleanly to multi-page PDFs.

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Step-by-step instructions

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    ImageMagick (command line — handles multi-page TIFF)

    Single TIFF to PDF: `magick input.tiff output.pdf`. Multiple TIFFs to one PDF: `magick page1.tiff page2.tiff page3.tiff document.pdf`. Multi-page TIFF: `magick 'multipage.tiff[0-5]' output.pdf`. High quality: `magick -density 300 input.tiff output.pdf`.

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    Ghostscript (command line, print-quality control)

    `gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.tiff`. Multiple TIFFs: `gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf page*.tiff`. Install: `brew install ghostscript` (Mac) or `sudo apt install ghostscript` (Ubuntu).

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    Python Pillow (batch automation)

    `from PIL import Image; import glob; images = [Image.open(f).convert('RGB') for f in sorted(glob.glob('*.tiff'))]; images[0].save('document.pdf', save_all=True, append_images=images[1:])`. Pillow handles multi-page TIFF natively.

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    Preview on Mac (drag-and-drop simplicity)

    Open TIFF in Preview. File → Export as PDF. For multi-page TIFF: Preview displays all pages; export converts all pages to PDF. Or: select multiple TIFFs in Finder → right-click → Open with Preview → File → Print → PDF → Save as PDF.

Why convert TIFF to PDF?

TIFF is the archiving standard; PDF is the sharing standard. Converting makes scanned documents universally viewable and archivable.

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Frequently asked questions

Will the TIFF quality be preserved in the PDF?
With ImageMagick or Ghostscript without re-compression, the TIFF image data is embedded at full resolution. The PDF is essentially a wrapper around the TIFF pixels. To ensure lossless: pass `-quality 100` to ImageMagick or use Ghostscript with `-dAutoFilterGrayImages=false -sGrayImageFilter=FlateEncode`.
How do I combine multiple TIFFs into one PDF?
ImageMagick: `magick page1.tiff page2.tiff page3.tiff combined.pdf`. Python: `images[0].save('combined.pdf', save_all=True, append_images=images[1:])`. Ghostscript: `gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=combined.pdf *.tiff`.
Can a TIFF to PDF conversion be searchable (OCR)?
Not automatically — if the TIFF contains a scanned document (image of text), the PDF is also an image and not searchable. For searchable PDF: use OCRmyPDF: `ocrmypdf input.tiff output.pdf`. Adobe Acrobat Pro also offers OCR for scanned TIFFs.
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