How to Password-Protect or Unlock a PDF
To password-protect a PDF, open it in a tool that can encrypt it, set a password and save a new copy. Anyone who opens that copy will be asked for...
Productivity Tools
Reviews and tutorials for software that enhances writing, studying, and system performance.
How to Make a Scanned PDF Searchable With OCR
To make a scanned PDF searchable, run it through OCR (optical character recognition), which reads the shapes of the letters on each page and adds a hidden text layer behind...
How to Edit a PDF Without Adobe Acrobat
You can edit a PDF without Adobe Acrobat by using a free online editor, macOS Preview, Microsoft Word, or the markup tools on your phone. For adding text, notes, highlights,...
How to Sign a PDF Online, on a Phone or on a Computer
To sign a PDF without printing it, open it in a signing tool, create your signature by drawing, typing or uploading a photo of it, place it on the page...
PDF Guide: Convert, Compress, Merge, Sign and Edit PDFs
A PDF is a fixed page. It looks the same on every phone, laptop and printer, which is why it became the default format for contracts, forms, invoices and anything...
How to Compress a PDF Without Ruining the Quality
To compress a PDF, run it through a compressor that resamples the images inside it, then check the result before you send it. Almost all of the size in a...
How to Convert a PDF to Word (and Word to PDF)
The quickest way to convert a PDF to Word is to upload it to an online converter, download the DOCX it produces and open that in Word. If you already...
How to Merge and Split PDF Files
To merge PDF files, upload them to a merge tool, drag them into the order you want and download one combined file. To split a PDF, choose the pages or...
How to Convert PDF to JPG and JPG to PDF
To convert PDF to JPG, upload the PDF to a converter that renders each page as an image, then download the images, usually as a ZIP with one JPG per...
Turning Meeting and Lecture Recordings Into Notes You Can Search
A one-hour meeting or lecture holds maybe five minutes of material you will actually need again: a decision, a deadline, a formula, a name. The problem is finding those five...
How AI Email Assistants Can Finally Tame Your Cluttered Inbox
Your inbox is a second job nobody hired you for. Between the newsletters you forgot to unsubscribe from, the thread that is forty replies deep, and the message you saw...
Printable Calendars Are Still Worth Using in a World Full of Apps
Your phone has a calendar. Your laptop has one too. There is probably a shared calendar on your work account, and another inside that productivity app you downloaded three months...
