Tag «pdf»

Unlocking PDFs

A few weeks ago I posted some links to some websites that help you with various PDF operations (merging, splitting, unlocking, etc). I tried to use the unlocking one recently. I have a PDF that I wanted to print so I didn’t have to sit at the computer. The PDF was protected and I couldn’t …

Working with PDFs

Occasionally I get a couple of PDFs that I need to unlock or want to merge. There are a series of websites that will help you with this. They all appear to be run by the same people: PDFUnlock! – Unlock secured PDF files online for free PDFSplit! – Split PDF files online for free …

Free online OCR

I haven’t managed to go paperless yet, but I do try to keep as little paper around as I can. I scan a lot of things to PDF and save them in Google Documents. Whenever I do that, I like to have the text in the documents searchable. If all I do is scan a …