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TIFF Conversion Produces One Image: Where Are the Other Pages?

Check multipage TIFF files before conversion and prepare every page before making a PDF. Understand the image converter’s single-image limitation.

By FileMyLove2 min read

A scanned TIFF can contain more than one image, but FileMyLove’s image converter reads one image rather than extracting every TIFF page. One downloaded PNG does not prove that the source had only one page.

Check the source page count

UTIF.js, the site’s fallback TIFF decoder, documents reading image directories and decoding a selected image. Our conversion path produces one image; it has no interface for choosing internal TIFF pages.

Our recommendation is to open the original in an application supporting multipage TIFF, note its page count and inspect the first and last pages. Pay attention to attachments or signatures at the end. A count of files is not a count of pages.

Choose a workflow

Goal Suggested approach
Use one TIFF image Convert and verify the result
Preserve every page Export all pages from the source application first
Produce a complete PDF Prepare each page image, then combine
Source will not open Check it in the source application before assuming damage

Multiple files and multiple pages are different. Selecting several TIFFs does not tell the converter to extract every image inside them.

Convert and inspect

  1. Open Convert image and select the TIFF.
  2. Choose the output format and convert.
  3. Reopen the download and compare it with the source.
  4. Inspect the bottom of the page, small text and orientation.

If you expected several pages but see one, stop before submitting. Switching PNG to JPG does not add pages that the reader did not select.

Prepare a complete PDF

Export separate page images in the source application. Use ordered names such as scan-01.png and scan-02.png, then open Images to PDF, select the complete set and check its order.

This is our suggested workflow, not automatic TIFF splitting. Reopen the PDF and compare its page count and first/last pages with the original. See ordering images before making a PDF.

Keep the TIFF until the recipient checks the result. If only the browser cannot read it, try exporting from an application that opens the original before altering the source.