Convert TIFF to PDF.
Turn a TIFF scan or fax into a PDF with a searchable OCR text layer — the format scanners and archives love, made shareable, printable and selectable.
TIFF to a searchable PDF
TIFF is the format scanners, fax machines and archives reach for — high quality and lossless, but awkward to share, since many viewers and phones can't open a .tiff. Converting to PDF makes the document open everywhere, and OCR adds an invisible text layer so the scan becomes searchable and the text selectable.
Multi-page scans
A single TIFF can hold many pages — common for faxes and bulk scans — and those come through as a proper multi-page PDF, in order, rather than separate files.
About the OCR
Clean, straight scans read very accurately; faint, skewed or low-resolution pages are harder and may contain the odd recognition error — that's the nature of OCR. If you only need the raw text rather than a formatted document, PDF to text pulls it straight out.
How it works
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Upload your TIFF
Drop a scan or fax (.tiff/.tif) or pick one from your device. Private by default.
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Read with OCR
Tesseract, a best-in-class open-source OCR engine, reads the text — no paid API in the loop.
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Download
Grab your PDF.
Built for scanned and faxed documents
Searchable, selectable text via Tesseract 5 OCR
Private uploads, auto-deleted after 1 hour
No watermark, no signup to try
Free and open-source engine
What you get from TIFF to PDF
Your TIFF is placed onto a PDF page at full resolution, so it prints and shares cleanly. Where the image holds text, an on-device OCR pass adds a searchable, selectable layer underneath — the picture itself is unchanged.
Common questions
Is it free?+
Yes — convert TIFF to PDF free. No signup, no watermark, no daily cap.
Why convert TIFF to PDF?+
TIFF is great for scanners and archives but awkward to share — many viewers and phones can't open it. A PDF opens everywhere and stays high quality.
Will the text be selectable?+
Yes — any text in the scan is read with Tesseract OCR and added as an invisible, selectable layer over the page, so the PDF is searchable.
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