Guides
Short, practical walkthroughs for common document tasks — each one links straight to a free tool so you can get it done.
How to merge PDF files
Merging PDFs combines several documents into one file that's easier to send, print and store. You might join scanned receipts for an expense report, stitch chapters into a single book, or combine signed pages back into a contract.
Read guideHow to reduce PDF file size
A PDF that's too large can bounce back from email or stall on upload. Reducing its file size makes it easy to share, while keeping the document readable.
Read guideHow to convert JPG to PDF
Turning images into a PDF makes them easy to share and print as a single file. It's the simplest way to send a set of photographed documents, receipts or scanned pages.
Read guideHow to split a PDF
Splitting a PDF lets you break a large document into smaller, focused files — one per chapter, section or page range. It's useful when you only need to send part of a contract, isolate a single form, or turn a long scan into individual pages.
Read guideHow to rotate PDF pages
Scanned pages often come out sideways or upside down, and some PDF viewers only let you rotate for viewing — not permanently. This guide shows how to rotate pages and save the corrected orientation into the file itself.
Read guideHow to delete pages from a PDF
Sometimes a PDF contains pages you don't need — a blank page after a scan, an old cover sheet, or a duplicate. Deleting them tidies the document before you share or archive it.
Read guideHow to extract pages from a PDF
Extracting pages is the opposite of deleting: you choose the pages you want to keep and everything else is left behind. It's perfect for pulling a receipt, a single form or a chapter out of a larger document.
Read guideHow to reorder PDF pages
When pages end up out of sequence after a scan, a merge or an export, reordering puts them right. This guide shows how to drag pages into the correct order and save the rearranged PDF.
Read guideHow to convert PDF to JPG
Converting a PDF to JPG gives you an image of each page that you can post on social media, embed in a presentation, or open without a PDF reader.
Read guideHow to add a watermark to a PDF
A watermark labels your document and discourages unauthorized reuse. Whether you're marking a draft, stamping CONFIDENTIAL, or branding with your company name, a watermark makes the status clear at a glance.
Read guideHow to edit a PDF
Sometimes you need to fix a typo, add a note, highlight a section or sign a document without printing it. A PDF editor lets you do all of this directly in your browser.
Read guideHow to convert PNG to PDF
Sending someone eleven separate screenshots is a small act of hostility. Wrapping them in one PDF gives the recipient a single file that opens the same way on every device, prints in the right order, and attaches to any form that only accepts one document.
Read guideHow to convert PDF to PNG
Turning a PDF page into an image is how you get a chart into a slide deck, a diagram into documentation, or a page preview onto a web page. The format you pick decides whether the result looks crisp or slightly smeared.
Read guideHow to convert video to MP3
Sometimes you want the audio from a video — a song, a lecture, a podcast recording, or an interview — without the picture. Converting video to MP3 gives you a small, portable audio file that plays on any device.
Read guideHow to convert MP4 to MP3
MP4 files carry both video and audio. When you only need the sound — a song, a talk, a voice memo — converting the MP4 to MP3 gives you a small audio file that plays everywhere.
Read guideHow to convert audio files
Different devices and apps prefer different audio formats. An audio converter lets you switch between them — MP3 for universal playback, WAV or FLAC for lossless quality, M4A for Apple devices.
Read guideHow to convert to MP3
MP3 is the most widely supported audio format — it plays on every phone, computer, car stereo and music app. Converting your files to MP3 makes them universally playable.
Read guideHow to compress a video
Large video files are awkward to email, slow to upload and quick to fill up storage. Compressing a video re-encodes it more efficiently, cutting the file size while keeping it watchable.
Read guideHow to trim audio
Sometimes you only need a piece of an audio file — a ringtone, a quote, the best part of a recording. An audio trimmer lets you keep just that section and drop the rest.
Read guideHow to convert MOV to MP4
MOV is the format iPhones, iPads and Macs use for screen recordings and camera footage. It plays perfectly inside the Apple ecosystem — and then refuses to open on a Windows laptop, an Android phone or the TV you want to show it on.
Read guideHow to remove metadata from photos
Every photo you take carries an invisible passenger: metadata. A single JPEG can reveal where it was taken (GPS coordinates), when, on which phone or camera, with what settings — and if the image came from an AI generator, often the exact prompt used to create it.
Read guideHow to check a photo's metadata
Wondering what a photo says about you — or where a photo someone sent you was really taken? The answers sit in the image's metadata: structured data blocks written into the file by cameras, phones, editors and AI generators.
Read guideHow to edit EXIF data in a photo
EXIF metadata isn't only something to remove — used deliberately, it's how photographers travel with their name attached. An embedded author and copyright field rides inside the file itself, surviving downloads, renames and reposts in a way a watermark caption can't.
Read guideHow to convert PNG to JPG
PNG stores every pixel losslessly, which is why a simple screenshot can weigh several megabytes and get rejected by an upload form that a visually identical JPG would sail through.
Read guideHow to convert JPG to PNG
Every time a JPG is edited and re-saved as JPG, it's compressed again, and the artifacts stack — the digital equivalent of photocopying a photocopy. Converting to PNG first stops that decay: PNG is lossless, so from then on the image survives any number of edit-save cycles untouched.
Read guideHow to convert HEIC to JPG
You AirDrop or copy photos off an iPhone, try to open them on a Windows PC — and get an unsupported-format error. Since iOS 11, iPhones save photos as HEIC, a space-efficient Apple-first format that much of the non-Apple world still can't read.
Read guideHow to convert HEIC to PNG
Sometimes compatibility isn't enough — you need the cleanest possible copy of an iPhone photo. Maybe it's headed into a design tool, a print layout, or heavy retouching where you'll save the file many times over.
Read guideHow to compress an image to a specific size
“Image must be smaller than 1 MB.” Every visa application, job portal and CMS seems to have its own limit, and photos straight off a phone camera are usually 3–10× over it.
Read guideHow to convert WebP to JPG
You right-clicked an image, saved it, and got a .webp file that half your software refuses to open. WebP is what most websites now serve, but plenty of apps — older Office and Photoshop versions, photo printers, many upload forms — still don't read it.
Read guideHow to convert WebP to PNG
When a WebP has a transparent background, PNG is the format to convert it to. Both store an alpha channel, so the cut-out survives — which it would not if you converted to JPG and got a white box around your logo.
Read guideHow to convert JPG to WebP
If a page-speed report is telling you to “serve images in next-gen formats”, this is the task it means. WebP stores the same photo in roughly 25–35% fewer bytes than an equivalent-quality JPG.
Read guideHow to convert PNG to WebP
Transparent PNGs are the heaviest images on most websites. A hero graphic or product cut-out saved as a lossless PNG can easily run to several hundred kilobytes, and PNG offers no way to trade a little quality for a much smaller file.
Read guideHow to convert Word to PDF
Converting a Word document to PDF locks in its layout so it looks identical on every device — no shifted text, swapped fonts or broken images. PDF is the expected format for résumés, reports, invoices and contracts.
Read guideHow to convert PDF to Word
When you receive a PDF but need to edit it — fix a typo, update a figure, reuse a paragraph — converting it to Word gives you editable text without retyping.
Read guideHow to convert Excel to PDF
Spreadsheets are awkward to share — columns get cut off, formatting changes, and not everyone has Excel. Converting to PDF freezes the layout into clean pages anyone can open and print.
Read guideHow to convert PDF to Excel
Retyping numbers from a PDF is slow and error-prone. Converting a PDF to Excel pulls the tabular data into a spreadsheet you can sort, total and analyse.
Read guideHow to convert PowerPoint to PDF
Sharing a PowerPoint file means hoping the recipient has the right software and your fonts survive. Converting to PDF gives you a document that opens perfectly anywhere — ideal for handouts, email attachments and printing.
Read guideHow to convert PDF to PowerPoint
Need to present a document or reuse a PDF in a slide deck? Converting a PDF to PowerPoint turns each page into a slide you can edit, annotate and build on.
Read guideHow to edit text in a PDF
Fixing a wrong date on an invoice, a misspelled name on a certificate or an out-of-date phone number on a flyer should take thirty seconds. It usually does not, because most PDF tools will happily let you draw on a page but refuse to touch the words that are already on it.
Read guideHow to sign a PDF
The print, sign, scan, email loop is a waste of an afternoon and a sheet of paper, and the scan always comes out crooked. Signing a PDF on screen takes under a minute and produces a cleaner document than the scanner would.
Read guideHow to add text to a PDF
Adding text to a PDF is a different job from editing the text that is already there. You are not changing the document's words — you are typing something new on top of the page: filling a blank, adding a note, dating a form, labelling a diagram.
Read guideHow to fill out a PDF form
Some PDF forms have clickable fields that highlight when you tab into them. Many do not — they look exactly like forms but are simply a picture of one, which is why clicking a blank does nothing and people end up printing them.
Read guideHow to highlight and annotate a PDF
Marking up a PDF is how most documents get reviewed: highlight what matters, comment on what needs changing, circle the thing everyone keeps missing, and send back one file the other person can open without installing anything.
Read guideHow to edit a PDF without Adobe Acrobat
Acrobat Pro is a capable application and an expensive habit. For the edits most people actually need — a typo, a signature, a form, a note in the margin — you do not need a subscription, and you do not need to install anything.
Read guideHow to edit a scanned PDF
Open a scanned PDF in any editor and click a word. Nothing happens. This is the single most common reason people conclude a PDF editor is broken, and it is not the editor's fault — there is genuinely nothing there to click.
Read guideHow to replace or add an image in a PDF
A rebrand leaves a trail of PDFs carrying the old logo. A certificate template needs a different photograph for each recipient. A proposal needs a screenshot dropped onto page four. All three are image edits, and none of them justifies rebuilding the document from scratch.
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