PDF Manipulation Tools for Everyday Tasks
Merge, split, extract, and compress are the tasks I do most with PDFs. Here is how I handle them without a desktop application. PDF is the format for documents that need to look the same everywhere. That consistency is also what makes PDFs hard to edit. The format is designed for faithful rendering, not for modification. Still, I regularly need to merge PDFs, split them, extract pages, and compress them. Online PDF tools handle these tasks without the overhead of a desktop application. Here is how I use them and what I watch out for. Merge and Split Are the Most Common Tasks Merging combines multiple PDFs into one. I merge when I have separate sections of a report that need to become a single document, or when scanned pages come as individual files and need to be bundled. Splitting does the reverse, taking one PDF and breaking it into parts. I split when a document is too large to email and I need to send it in chunks, or when I only need a few pages from a long file. concern with merge is order. More tutorials are on the KitCraft Blog.