Guides for compressing, merging, splitting and protecting PDFs, and for converting PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and images.
A folder of separate receipt photos is a hassle to attach one by one. Combining them into a single, ordered PDF makes submitting an expense report much simpler.
A single 400-page textbook PDF is slow to open and awkward to navigate on a tablet. Splitting it into chapter-sized files makes it far more usable for actual studying.
A scanner that occasionally pulls two sheets at once leaves a stray blank page in the same rough position every time. Here is how to fix it after the fact and reduce it going forward.
A creative job or client pitch often needs a visual portfolio, not a text resume. Here is how to build one that looks polished and stays a manageable size.
Translation software and translators alike need editable text to work with, not a fixed PDF layout. Here is how to prepare a document properly before translation begins.
Once a form is filled in, you may want the answers locked in place so they cannot be accidentally changed. Converting the finished form to images and back is a simple way to flatten it.
Before posting a document publicly or sharing it with someone who only needs part of it, an account number or ID can be covered the same way a watermark is — by marking the box once.
A missing page, a page in the wrong order, a blank scan slipped in by mistake — a quick, consistent check before sending catches these before someone else does.
A digitally signed PDF is not the same as a page with a picture of a signature on it. Here is what actually breaks a digital signature, and how to avoid doing it by accident.