Guides
One everyday problem on each page, and every step to solve it with the free tools on this site. Nothing you follow here uploads your documents.
- Your PDF is too big to email? Here is how to make it fitWhy a PDF is too big to send, and three ways to make it fit: tidy it up, rebuild the pages as pictures, or split it into parts. Nothing is uploaded.
- Double-sided pages scanned in the wrong order? Put them back togetherYour scanner gave you all the fronts, then all the backs in reverse. Here is how to put every back after its own front in one step, then turn and tidy the pages.
- How to black out text in a PDF so it is really goneA black box drawn over text usually hides nothing: the words are still in the file. Here is how to remove names, numbers and addresses for real, and how to check.
- How to sign a PDF without printing itSign a contract or form on your computer or phone: draw your signature, use a photo of it, add the date, and save. The document never leaves your computer.
- How to scan documents with your phone into one searchable PDFUse the camera in your browser as a scanner: pages are found, straightened and cleaned, then the words are made searchable. No app, no account, nothing uploaded.
- How to combine photos, Word files and PDFs into one PDFAn application wants one file, and you have a Word CV, photos of your diploma and two PDFs. Here is how to turn them all into one tidy PDF, in the right order and small enough to upload.
- Your PDF will not open or is damaged? What you can doThe four ways a PDF gets damaged, how to repair most of them in your browser, and what to do when the pages can be saved but the document cannot.
- How to find what changed between two versions of a PDFSomebody sent back a contract with "a few small changes". Find every changed line in seconds, page by page, without uploading either version.
- How to remove the password from your own PDFStop typing the same password every time you open your bank statement. How to save a copy without the password, and how to lift print and copy limits.
- How to number pages for court, a lawyer or an auditPage numbers or Bates numbers? When each is asked for, and how to stamp one running number across a whole set of PDF documents, without uploading them.
- How to turn a PDF into a Word document you can editConvert a PDF to Word to change its text, and what to do first when the PDF is a scan. Works in your browser; the file is never uploaded.
- How to open and read a PDF without Adobe ReaderRead, search, print and listen to a PDF in your browser, with no program to install and no upload. Works on computers where you cannot install software.
- What your PDF says about you: check it before you send itA PDF can carry your name, old versions with deleted text, comments, attached files and scripts. See what yours holds in plain words, and take out all of it or just what you choose.
- How to make a certificate for every name on a listOne certificate design and one Excel or CSV list of names give you a finished certificate for every person, in one PDF to print or one PDF each to email. Nothing is uploaded.
- How to print a PDF as a folded bookletTurn any PDF into a little book: two pages on each side of a sheet, in the order that comes out right once the sheets are folded. Works on any printer that prints on both sides.
- How to print a big poster on normal A4 paperPrint a sign, a map or a plan larger than your printer, on several sheets of A4 or Letter paper, with marks to cut and labels to put it back together.
- Arabic text comes out backwards when you copy it from a PDF? Here is why and how to fix itWhy Arabic copied from a PDF comes out reversed, broken or with brackets the wrong way, and how to get clean text you can paste into Word or an email. Nothing is uploaded.
- How to keep the videos when you turn PowerPoint into a PDFSave as PDF in PowerPoint throws every video away. Here is how to make a PDF that keeps them on their slides, which readers play them, and how to keep the file small enough to email.