Other Topics
Answers to questions about scanning, zipping, and other curiosities indirectly related to working with PDF files.
Explore Other Topics Topics
Here you’ll find tutorials, how-to articles and tips on working with different file types, including PDF files. These “other” topics include answering questions like, “how do you scan a document to create a PDF?” We also go over zipping versus compressing files, as well as a slew of other hot topics that we thought you’d find helpful.
- How Does OCR Work? Optical Character Recognition Meaning in PDFs
- Best Image File Formats for 6 Uses
- Cloud Storage Options for PDF Files (Free and Subscription)
- What Is a PDF Used For?
- PDFs In Tax Season
- Free Photo Editors
- PDF Toolkit: PDF Toolbox
- Fax From Computer (Free & Paid)
- How to Write a Fax Cover Sheet
- How to Fax Something Online: Cloud Based Faxing
- Lossy Vs Lossless File Compression
- Understanding U.S. Copyrights and PDFs*
- Can PDFs Contain Viruses? Understanding Malware
- Working With PDFs and Google Drive
- How to Search For Words in a PDF
- What is a ZIP file?
How to Annotate PDFs
How to annotate a PDF, including how to add text to PDF files, how to type directly onto a PDF (without a typewriter, because who still has typewriters!?), and how to draw and markup PDFs. Tutorials include screenshots and step-by-step instructions for annotating PDFs.
PDF Basics
Wondering what a PDF is? You’re not alone. More than 33,000 people ask Google that question every month. If you’re new to working with PDF files, or need a refresher on PDF basics, explore our resource library. We cover how to sign a PDF, convert Word Docs into PDFs, extracting pages from PDFs and so much more.
Working With PDFs
You know what a PDF file is, but you need help that goes beyond simply opening, closing, sharing and downloading a PDF file. Explore topics that help you alter a PDF document, whether you want to rearrange pages, block out copy, markup and edit a PDF, or troubleshoot how to lock or unlock a password-protected PDF file.