PDF guides and document workflows
Follow a complete document workflow, or find desktop conversion instructions. Browser tools are listed separately so you know whether a page performs the operation or explains it.
Complete a document task
- Prepare a PDF for an upload size limit
Choose the least destructive way to meet a portal limit: remove unnecessary pages, split if allowed, or compress a copy and inspect it before uploading.
- Make scanned PDFs searchable and readable
Clean up a copy of your scan, add an OCR text layer, and verify the recognized text. OCR can misread numbers, names and low-quality print.
- Prepare a PDF for private sharing
Review visible content and hidden document data separately. Redaction, metadata removal and sanitization solve different problems; inspect a saved copy before sharing.
- Combine PDFs with a contents page
Create a navigable PDF binder by naming and ordering source files, then generating a contents page and per-file bookmarks.
- Verify local PDF processing
Browser tools process document contents on your device. You can inspect network requests and test a public sample offline; engine downloads and site visits still use the network.
- Sample PDFs and reproducible checks
Use these synthetic PDFs to try tools without selecting personal documents. Check page order and text preservation; file size and processing time vary by operation and device.
Conversion guides
These pages explain methods using other software; they are not browser converters.
- PDF Converterguide
Overview of every route into and out of PDF, with the right tool for each format.
- Word to PDFguide
Convert Word documents to PDF with layout intact — every reliable method.
- PowerPoint to PDFguide
Turn PowerPoint slides into a shareable PDF.
- Excel to PDFguide
Print Excel sheets to PDF with correct page breaks.
- HEIC to PDFguide
Convert iPhone HEIC photos into a PDF.
- TIFF to PDFguide
Convert single- and multi-page TIFF scans to PDF.
- DOCX to PDFguide
Convert modern Word .docx files to PDF accurately.
- PPTX to PDFguide
Convert .pptx presentations to PDF, one slide per page.
- XLSX to PDFguide
Convert .xlsx workbooks to PDF with sensible scaling.
- DOC to PDFguide
Convert legacy Word .doc files to PDF.
- PPT to PDFguide
Convert legacy .ppt presentations to PDF.
- XLS to PDFguide
Convert legacy .xls spreadsheets to PDF.
- ODT to PDFguide
Convert OpenDocument text files to PDF.
- ODG to PDFguide
Convert OpenDocument drawings to PDF.
- ODS to PDFguide
Convert OpenDocument spreadsheets to PDF.
- ODP to PDFguide
Convert OpenDocument presentations to PDF.
- RTF to PDFguide
Convert Rich Text Format files to PDF.
- EPUB to PDFguide
Convert EPUB e-books to paginated PDF.
- Webpage to PDFguide
Save any web page as a PDF using the browser's own engine.
- PDF to Wordguide
Convert PDFs into editable Word documents — what works and what breaks.
- PDF to PowerPointguide
Turn PDF pages back into editable PowerPoint slides.
- PDF to Excelguide
Extract PDF tables into Excel without retyping.
- PDF to SVGguide
Convert PDF vector content into SVG files.
- PDF to DOCXguide
Convert PDF files to the modern Word .docx format.
- PDF to PPTXguide
Convert PDF pages into a .pptx presentation.
- PDF to XLSXguide
Get PDF table data into an .xlsx workbook.
- PDF to ODTguide
Convert PDFs to OpenDocument text for LibreOffice.
- PDF to ODSguide
Move PDF tables into an OpenDocument spreadsheet.
- PDF to ODPguide
Convert PDF slides to OpenDocument presentations.
- PDF to RTFguide
Convert PDF content to Rich Text Format.
- PDF to EPUBguide
Turn a PDF into a reflowable EPUB e-book.
- PDF to secure PDFguide
Harden a PDF: encryption, permissions and redaction, explained.
- PDF to PDF/Aguide
Convert PDFs to the PDF/A archival standard.
- HEIC to JPGguide
Convert iPhone HEIC photos to universally-supported JPG.
- HEIC to PNGguide
Convert HEIC photos to lossless PNG.
- Create electronic invoiceguide
E-invoicing (XRechnung / ZUGFeRD / Factur-X) explained, with a starting point.