Use Nutrient DWS Processor API to convert TIFF image files — including multi-page scans, faxes, and document images — into PDF output. Start a free trial, test with Postman, and move to production with credit-based pricing.
Convert single-page and multi-page TIFF files to PDF while preserving image quality and page order for archival, compliance, and document packaging workflows.
Use REST, Postman, curl, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, or HTTP to automate TIFF-to-PDF conversion inside larger document-processing pipelines.
TIFF-to-PDF is one action in the DWS Processor API. Combine it with OCR, JPG, PNG, and other image formats in a single request.
This example will convert your uploaded TIFF file to a PDF.
Try it out in three steps
document.tiff to your project folder.result.pdf to see the output.curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf \ -H "Content-Type: image/tiff" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" \ -o result.pdf \ --fail \ --data-binary @document.tiffcurl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf ^ -H "Content-Type: image/tiff" ^ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" ^ -o result.pdf ^ --fail ^ --data-binary @document.tiffpackage com.example.pspdfkit;
import java.io.File;import java.io.IOException;import java.nio.file.FileSystems;import java.nio.file.Files;import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
import org.json.JSONArray;import org.json.JSONObject;
import okhttp3.MediaType;import okhttp3.MultipartBody;import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;import okhttp3.Request;import okhttp3.RequestBody;import okhttp3.Response;
public final class PspdfkitApiExample { public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException { final MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("image/tiff"); final RequestBody body = RequestBody.create( mediaType, new File("document.tiff") );
final Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf") .method("POST", body) .addHeader("Content-Type", "image/tiff") .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .build();
final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient() .newBuilder() .build();
final Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
if (response.isSuccessful()) { Files.copy( response.body().byteStream(), FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("result.pdf"), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING ); } else { // Handle the error throw new IOException(response.body().string()); } }}using System;using System.IO;using System.Net;using RestSharp;
namespace PspdfkitApiDemo{ class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var client = new RestClient("https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST) .AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .AddFile("document.tiff", "document.tiff");
request.AdvancedResponseWriter = (responseStream, response) => { if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { using (responseStream) { using var outputFileWriter = File.OpenWrite("result.pdf"); responseStream.CopyTo(outputFileWriter); } } else { var responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream); Console.Write(responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd()); } };
client.Execute(request); } }}// This code requires Node.js. Do not run this code directly in a web browser.
const axios = require('axios')const FormData = require('form-data')const fs = require('fs')
const body = fs.createReadStream('document.tiff')
;(async () => { try { const response = await axios.post('https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf', body, { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'image/tiff', 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }, responseType: "stream" })
response.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream("result.pdf")) } catch (e) { const errorString = await streamToString(e.response.data) console.log(errorString) }})()
function streamToString(stream) { const chunks = [] return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { stream.on("data", (chunk) => chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk))) stream.on("error", (err) => reject(err)) stream.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString("utf8"))) })}import requestsimport json
body = open('document.tiff', 'rb')
response = requests.request( 'POST', 'https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf', headers = { 'Content-Type': 'image/tiff', 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }, data = body, stream = True)
if response.ok: with open('result.pdf', 'wb') as fd: for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8096): fd.write(chunk)else: print(response.text) exit()<?php
$FileHandle = fopen('result.pdf', 'w+');
$curl = curl_init();
$body = file_get_contents('document.tiff');
curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf', CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => '', CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $body, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( 'Content-Type: image/tiff', 'Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here' ), CURLOPT_FILE => $FileHandle,));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
fclose($FileHandle);POST https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf HTTP/1.1Content-Type: image/tiffAuthorization: Bearer your_api_key_here
<document.tiff contents>curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" \ -o result.pdf \ --fail \ -F file=@document.tiff \ -F instructions='{ "parts": [ { "file": "file" } ] }'curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build ^ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" ^ -o result.pdf ^ --fail ^ -F file=@document.tiff ^ -F instructions="{\"parts\": [{\"file\": \"file\"}]}"package com.example.pspdfkit;
import java.io.File;import java.io.IOException;import java.nio.file.FileSystems;import java.nio.file.Files;import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
import org.json.JSONArray;import org.json.JSONObject;
import okhttp3.MediaType;import okhttp3.MultipartBody;import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;import okhttp3.Request;import okhttp3.RequestBody;import okhttp3.Response;
public final class PspdfkitApiExample { public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException { final RequestBody body = new MultipartBody.Builder() .setType(MultipartBody.FORM) .addFormDataPart( "file", "document.tiff", RequestBody.create( MediaType.parse("image/tiff"), new File("document.tiff") ) ) .addFormDataPart( "instructions", new JSONObject() .put("parts", new JSONArray() .put(new JSONObject() .put("file", "file") ) ).toString() ) .build();
final Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("https://api.nutrient.io/build") .method("POST", body) .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .build();
final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient() .newBuilder() .build();
final Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
if (response.isSuccessful()) { Files.copy( response.body().byteStream(), FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("result.pdf"), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING ); } else { // Handle the error throw new IOException(response.body().string()); } }}using System;using System.IO;using System.Net;using RestSharp;
namespace PspdfkitApiDemo{ class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var client = new RestClient("https://api.nutrient.io/build");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST) .AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .AddFile("file", "document.tiff") .AddParameter("instructions", new JsonObject { ["parts"] = new JsonArray { new JsonObject { ["file"] = "file" } } }.ToString());
request.AdvancedResponseWriter = (responseStream, response) => { if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { using (responseStream) { using var outputFileWriter = File.OpenWrite("result.pdf"); responseStream.CopyTo(outputFileWriter); } } else { var responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream); Console.Write(responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd()); } };
client.Execute(request); } }}// This code requires Node.js. Do not run this code directly in a web browser.
const axios = require('axios')const FormData = require('form-data')const fs = require('fs')
const formData = new FormData()formData.append('instructions', JSON.stringify({ parts: [ { file: "file" } ]}))formData.append('file', fs.createReadStream('document.tiff'))
;(async () => { try { const response = await axios.post('https://api.nutrient.io/build', formData, { headers: formData.getHeaders({ 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }), responseType: "stream" })
response.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream("result.pdf")) } catch (e) { const errorString = await streamToString(e.response.data) console.log(errorString) }})()
function streamToString(stream) { const chunks = [] return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { stream.on("data", (chunk) => chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk))) stream.on("error", (err) => reject(err)) stream.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString("utf8"))) })}import requestsimport json
response = requests.request( 'POST', 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }, files = { 'file': open('document.tiff', 'rb') }, data = { 'instructions': json.dumps({ 'parts': [ { 'file': 'file' } ] }) }, stream = True)
if response.ok: with open('result.pdf', 'wb') as fd: for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8096): fd.write(chunk)else: print(response.text) exit()<?php
$FileHandle = fopen('result.pdf', 'w+');
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => '', CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array( 'instructions' => '{ "parts": [ { "file": "file" } ] }', 'file' => new CURLFILE('document.tiff') ), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( 'Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here' ), CURLOPT_FILE => $FileHandle,));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
fclose($FileHandle);POST https://api.nutrient.io/build HTTP/1.1Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--customboundaryAuthorization: Bearer your_api_key_here
--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="instructions"Content-Type: application/json{ "parts": [ { "file": "file" } ]}--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="document.tiff"Content-Type: image/tiff
(file data)--customboundary--Straightforward API for converting to PDF. Perfect for most use cases.
FEATURES
Maximum flexibility and advanced features for complex workflows.
FEATURES
The following section will walk you through how to best make use of all the functionality our Image to PDF API provides.
Most common next steps
Use the following:
Get started:
Platform resources:
No input or resulting documents are stored on our infrastructure. All files are deleted as soon as a request finishes. Alternatively, check out our self-hosted product.
All communication between your application and Nutrient is done via HTTPS to ensure your data is encrypted when it’s sent to us.
All payments are handled by Paddle. Nutrient DWS Processor API never has direct access to any of your payment data.
Create an account to get your DWS Processor API key and start making API calls.