Manipulate and work with PDF files

According to the statistics released by Adobe as part of the 25th anniversary of PDF in 2018, more than 200 billion PDF files were accessed using Adobe products in 2017. In the years since, and taking into account non-Adobe products, the sheer number of PDF files accessed in a year, or even on a daily basis is practically incalculable.

The trusted and popular document format started its journey as a proprietary format at Adobe in 1993, and was released as an open standard in 2008. Today, there are a large number of graphical and command-line utilities that you can use to not only read, but also manipulate PDF files.

Here, we’ll discuss everything from splitting large PDF files into smaller ones, or merging multiple small files into a single PDF file. We’ll also discuss how to churn multiple image files into a PDF document and shrink the size of a PDF file. We’ll reveal how to run OCR on your PDF files, edit metadata of PDF files, extract text, or images out of PDF files and more!

Creating a PDF from image files

It’s a common practice to use your cellphone camera to digitise documents. Unless you’re using dedicated scanner apps, you’ll end