Rotate a sideways page, invert colours for night reading, strip images, remove pages, or inspect a file’s properties and scripts. A roundup of the handy, lesser-known free PDF tools.
Beyond the big jobs — merge, compress, convert — there's a long tail of small PDF tasks that each solve a specific, occasionally-urgent problem. A sideways page, a file that's too bright to read at night, images you need gone, or a document whose properties are wrong. Here's a roundup of the handy, lesser-known PDF tools, all free and in your browser.
Rotate turns pages that scanned in sideways. Invert flips colours to a dark background for easier night reading, and the Scanner Effect makes a clean digital PDF look like a genuine scan.
Remove Images strips out pictures to shrink a file or focus on the text, and Remove Pages deletes the pages you don't need. Not sure which pages have photos? The Detect Photos tool finds them for you.
Check a document's properties with PDF Info, tidy the bookmarks with Edit Table of Contents, split a batch automatically with Auto Split, name files by their content with Auto Rename, bundle files inside a PDF with Add Attachments, or inspect embedded scripts with Show JavaScript (a quick security check).
| Problem | Tool |
|---|---|
| Page is sideways | Rotate |
| Too bright to read at night | Invert |
| Shrink by dropping images | Remove Images |
| Delete unwanted pages | Remove Pages |
| Check document properties | PDF Info |
| Attach files inside a PDF | Add Attachments |
The small PDF jobs matter too — rotate a sideways page, invert for night reading, strip images, remove pages, or inspect a file's properties and scripts. Whatever the odd task, there's a one-click tool for it, all free and private in your browser.