How to convert TIFF files to PDF format on Linux

Last updated on August 20, 2020 by Dan Nanni

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a popular image file format. Unlike other types of image files, a single TIFF file can contain multiple images (e.g., multi-page document scan) in it. TIFF editor software such as GIMP is able to support such multi-page TIFF files. If you would like to convert a TIFF file to PDF format on Linux, you can follow the instructions below.

A simple command-line approach to convert a TIFF image to a PDF document is to use a command-line utility called tiff2pdf.

Install tiff2pdf on Linux

To install tiff2pdf on Debian or Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install ghostscript libtiff-tools

To install tiff2pdf on CentOS, RHEL

$ sudo yum install ghostscript libtiff

To install tiff2pdf on Fedora:

$ sudo yum install ghostscript libtiff-tools

Convert a TIFF Image to PDF Format with tiff2pdf

If you have installed tiff2pdf, you can convert a TIFF image to a PDF file as follows.

$ tiff2pdf -o output.pdf input.tiff

If you would like to extract specific pages from a TIFF image and convert them into a PDF file, what you can do is to convert the whole TIFF file into a PDF using the above method, and then edit the PDF file to your needs.

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