PDF Guides & How-Tos

✂️ How to Split a PDF File Into Separate Pages Break a PDF into separate files — no upload, no signup, up to 100 MB. 6 min read 🗜️ How to Compress a PDF for Email Without Losing Quality Shrink a PDF under your email provider's attachment limit — free, private, no upload. 5 min read 🔗 How to Merge PDF Files Into One Document Combine multiple PDFs into one file, in the order you choose. 5 min read 📝 How to Convert PDF to Word Without Losing Formatting Turn a PDF into an editable Word document — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 📄 How to Convert a Word Document to PDF Turn a .docx file into a PDF — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 🖼️ How to Convert JPG to PDF Turn one or many images into a PDF — no upload, no signup. 6 min read 🖼️ How to Convert PDF to JPG — Page by Page Turn every page of a PDF into its own JPG — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 🔐 How to Password-Protect a PDF File Add a password to a PDF — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 🔓 How to Remove a Password From a PDF You Own Remove password protection from a PDF you know the password for. 5 min read 🔎 How to Make a Scanned PDF Searchable With OCR Add a real, searchable text layer to a scanned PDF. 5 min read 📖 What Is a PDF? A Plain-English Guide What a PDF actually is, and when to use one instead of a Word document. 5 min read ⭐ The Best Free PDF Tools in 2026 50 free PDF tools that run entirely in your browser — no account required. 5 min read 📧 How to Send a Large PDF by Email Your PDF is too big to attach — here's what to actually do about it. 5 min read 📏 PDF File Size Guide What a normal PDF should weigh, and when size actually becomes a problem. 5 min read 🌐 How to Work With PDFs Entirely in Your Browser How browser-based PDF tools actually work, and why your file never gets uploaded. 5 min read 🤔 Why Is My PDF So Large? Four causes, four fixes — find out exactly what's bloating your PDF and what to do about it. 5 min read 📉 How to Reduce PDF File Size Windows, Mac, iPhone, or Android — the same free browser tool, nothing to install. 5 min read 🧩 How to Combine PDF Files Without Acrobat Combine PDFs into one file without an Acrobat subscription — free, private, right in your browser. 5 min read 📤 How to Extract Specific Pages From a PDF Pull just the pages you need into a new PDF — the original stays untouched. 5 min read 🗑️ How to Delete Pages From a PDF Remove the pages you don't want — blank scans, drafts, private data — and keep the rest. 4 min read 🔄 How to Rotate a PDF Page Fix sideways pages for good — save the new orientation into the file, not just your view. 4 min read 🔀 How to Reorder Pages in a PDF Fix the page order inside one PDF — drag pages into place, no upload, no signup. 5 min read 📊 How to Convert an Excel Spreadsheet to PDF Share a spreadsheet as a PDF that opens the same way everywhere — no Excel required on the other end. 4 min read 📈 How to Convert PDF to Excel Get tables out of a PDF and back into cells — without uploading the file anywhere. 5 min read 🖥️ How to Convert a PowerPoint to PDF Share a deck that looks the same on every machine — no PowerPoint required on the other end. 4 min read 🖊️ How to Redact a PDF Covering text isn't removing it — here's how real redaction works. 5 min read ✍️ How to Sign a PDF Without Printing Skip the printer, the scanner, and the worst photo you've ever taken of your own signature. 4 min read 📋 How to Fill Out a PDF Form If the PDF has fields, you can fill them — no Adobe account required. 4 min read ✏️ How to Edit Text in a PDF Why PDFs fight back — and the three honest ways to change one. 5 min read ⌨️ How to Add Text to a PDF Type onto any page — flat forms included — no Acrobat required. 5 min read 🔍 What Is OCR? How software reads a picture of text — and turns it back into words you can search and copy. 4 min read ⚖️ PDF vs DOCX One is for writing. One is for everything after. Knowing which saves real friction. 5 min read 💻 How to Open a PDF on Any Device Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Linux — something on every one of them already opens PDFs. 4 min read ♿ How to Make a PDF Accessible A screen reader can't see a picture of text — here's how to give it something to read. 4 min read 📖 How to Print a PDF as a Booklet Two sheets, four sides, eight pages — the surprising math that makes booklets work. 4 min read 🧷 How to Flatten a PDF Form Bake filled form values into the page so nobody can edit or clear them — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 🩹 How to Repair a Corrupted PDF A corrupted PDF often has its structure broken, not its content lost — rebuild it in your browser, no upload. 5 min read 🔢 How to Add Page Numbers to a PDF Renumber any PDF after merging, reordering, or splitting — six positions, four formats, no upload, no signup. 5 min read 📐 How to Crop a PDF Trim scan borders and dead margins off every page, full quality kept — no upload, no signup. 4 min read 📑 How to Split a PDF by Page Range Break one PDF into chapters, exhibits, or quarters with exact page ranges — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 🎞️ How to Convert PDF to PowerPoint Get the words back into editable slides — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 🌍 How to Convert a Webpage to PDF Keep a copy of the page that outlives the page — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 📷 How to Convert a Scanned Document to PDF Your phone is the scanner — flat page, even light, one clean PDF out. 4 min read 🏛️ How to Convert PDF to PDF/A Make a PDF that outlives the software that opens it — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 🖼️ How to Convert PNG to PDF Sharp in, sharp out — PNGs to PDF with no re-compression, no upload. 5 min read 🗂️ How to Convert Multiple Images Into One PDF Many images in, one ordered PDF out — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 🔏 How to Add a Digital Signature to a PDF The visible mark and the cryptography are two different things — know which one you're adding. 5 min read 💧 How to Add a Watermark to a PDF Stamp DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, or REVIEWED across every page — no upload, no signup. 5 min read 🧽 How to Remove a Watermark From a PDF There's no erase button — the honest routes to a clean file, and where the legal line sits. 5 min read 🆚 How to Compare Two PDF Files Find what actually changed between two versions — no upload, no signup. 5 min read