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Everyday PDF jobs, the short way
14 walkthroughs for the jobs people arrive with. Each takes under two minutes.
These are the jobs people actually turn up with, rather than the features a PDF editor happens to have. Sending a file that is too big for email, combining a stack of scans into one document, blacking out a number before forwarding a statement — each one usually needs two or three tools in a particular order, and getting the order wrong is what wastes the afternoon.
So each walkthrough is the whole job from start to finish, in the order that works, with the decision points called out: compress before or after merging, flatten before signing, check the result before you delete the original.
Nothing here needs an account and nothing is uploaded, so you can follow a walkthrough with the real document rather than a test copy.
- Redact PDF
Black out text in a PDF properly
Remove names, account numbers and addresses from a PDF so they cannot be copied back out, then check the result before you send it. Nothing is uploaded. - Remove PDF Password
Open a PDF someone sent with a password
Stop retyping the password on statements and payslips: decrypt the file once in your browser and save a copy that opens normally, with nothing uploaded. - Password Protect PDF
Password-protect a PDF before sending it
Encrypt a PDF with AES-256, choose a password that holds up, and check what else is inside the file before it leaves your device. Step by step, free, and nothing is uploaded on the way.
- Merge PDF
Combine several PDFs into one file
Merge documents and scans into a single PDF in the order you want, with a bookmark for each file, then fix the order or rotation without starting again. - Merge PDF
Combine tax documents into one PDF
Put statements, invoices, receipts and certificates into a single ordered PDF for a tax return or an accountant — small enough to send, in the order they ask for. Free, and nothing is uploaded. - Split PDF by Text
Split a batch of invoices into separate files
Turn one long accounting export into a separate PDF per invoice, split on the invoice number rather than a fixed page count, so multi-page invoices stay whole. Free, and nothing is uploaded. - Alternate & Mix PDFs
Merge front and back scans into one document
Combine two one-sided scans — all the fronts, then all the backs — into one correctly interleaved document, with the backs reversed if the scanner fed them in reverse. Free, in your browser. - Extract PDF Pages
Extract specific pages from a PDF
Pull out the pages you need — a chapter, a signed page, an appendix — into a new PDF, leaving the original untouched. Step by step, free, in your browser, and nothing is uploaded. - Multiple Pages per Sheet
Print several PDF pages on one sheet
Put two, four or six pages on a single sheet and save the result as a PDF, so it prints that way on any printer, from any app. Step by step, free, in your browser, and nothing is uploaded.
Compress
2- Compress PDF
Send a large PDF by email
Get a PDF under Gmail’s 25 MB or your company’s 10 MB limit: compress it to a target size, or split it into parts. Done in your browser, with nothing uploaded. - Split PDF by Size
Split a large PDF so it will send by email
Break a PDF that is too big to email into parts that each fit the attachment limit you set, without recompressing anything, so every page stays exactly as it was. Free and entirely in your browser.
- PDF to Word
Turn a PDF into an editable Word file
Get an editable .docx from a PDF with the headings, lists, tables and pictures in place, and know which documents convert cleanly — and which won’t — before you start. Free, nothing uploaded. - PDF to Excel
Get a table out of a PDF
Pull the rows and columns out of a PDF into a spreadsheet you can sort and total — including bank statements whose table runs over many pages. Step by step, free, with nothing uploaded.