PDF Guides & Tutorials
Step-by-step guides for every PDFyre tool. Learn how to OCR scanned PDFs, compress, merge, split and rotate files — all free, all in your browser, with nothing ever uploaded.
What is OCR?
A beginner-friendly explanation of optical character recognition — how it works and why every scanned PDF needs it.
Basics
Make a PDF Searchable
Turn any scanned PDF into a searchable, copyable document in five steps — no uploads.
OCR
Compress a PDF
Shrink large PDFs for email and storage without visibly losing quality.
Tool
Merge PDFs
Combine multiple PDF files into one ordered document in seconds.
Tool
Split a PDF
Extract single pages or ranges into their own files with no software.
Tool
Free PDF Tools Overview
Everything PDFyre can do — OCR, merge, split, compress, rotate, PDF to images and more.
Overview