How to White Out a PDF

Using the Digital Whiteout Tool on PDF.Live  Remember whiteout? It came in a small bottle or tape, which you brushed, rolled or sponged on paper to cover up errors. It could be messy and smelly, too! Today’s digital whiteout is much easier to use, and PDF.Live’s tutorial walks you through the white out application. There …

How to Rearrange Pages in a PDF

Do you need to change the order of pages in a PDF file? Whether you need to edit the order of pages, reorder pages or otherwise simply change the order of your PDF, this click-and-drag tool will make it easy for you. Change the Order of PDF Pages The size of a PDF can range …

How to Draw on a PDF Online

Tips for Using PDF Drawing & Markup Tools  You need to add lines to a PDF or markup a PDF by drawing lines, and you don’t know how? This online tool will help you draw on a PDF file freehand or by adding shapes.  PDFs are an excellent document format to use for receiving and …

Understanding U.S. Copyrights and PDFs*

Can You Print and Distribute Someone Else’s Intellectual Property? When does a document become copyrighted? What is digital rights management, and how do they apply to PDFs? Is it legal to make copies of PDFs? This article answers FAQs about DRM, copyrights, and PDF documents. Copyright is a term that generally refers to protecting the …

Need to OCR a PDF? What Optical Character Recognition Means

Definition of Optical Character Recognition and How It’s Used in Scanning Technology  What is the meaning of OCR in scanning and PDF terminology? How does optical character recognition work? Why would you need to know about OCR technology? Optical character recognition, or OCR, is a useful piece of technology for scanning documents and images. OCR …

Working With PDFs and Microsoft Word

How to Convert, Insert, Edit, Add and Combine PDF and Word files In this tutorial on PDF.Live, we explain how Word documents (.doc and .docx) work with PDF files. If you want to convert a Word doc to a PDF or PDF to .doc, we’ll cover that. As well, we cover how to insert elements …