PDFs are one of the most-used file formats in the world. However, they don’t readily lend themselves to being used in PowerPoint presentations. Of course, it’s unlikely you’d want to turn a 100-page academic paper into a slideshow, but PDFs aren’t only used for text. Plenty of graphs, charts, and images are also distributed in […]
Continue ReadingColor PDF documents are generally great, but may not serve your purpose when you just want black-and-white printouts to save on printer ink. Fortunately, macOS High Sierra and the wonderfully versatile Preview app can convert colored PDFs to black-and-white document with a few clicks. But there’s a small bug you’ll have to deal with until […]
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How many hard drives does your system have? One? Three? Ten? Regardless of how many drives you have, they all need one thing to keep track of what’s on the drive: a partition table. The partition table describes the partitions (sections) of the drive and helps your system find the files you need. Your Windows […]
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Images cover every nook and cranny of the internet. Unfortunately, most of them are very low-quality. If you want to start an art project, or play around with the Adobe suite, without having to rely on crappy online images, you’ll need to convert an image to a vector graphic. Read on to turn any JPG […]
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Believe it or not, some people still print documents on physical pieces of paper. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software takes those printed documents and converts them right back into machine-readable text. We’ve found some of the best free OCR tools and compared them for you here. No OCR program is perfect, so you’ll have to check the […]
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