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Answers to the questions that come up around the tools: what a form means by 200 KB, what the password on an Aadhaar PDF is made of, why a converted document looks wrong. Each guide links to the tools that do the job.
How to compress a PDF to 200 KB
Why forms ask for 200 KB, how to hit it without ruining the scan, and what to do when a file will not get there.
Read the guideWhat is the password on an Aadhaar PDF
The e-Aadhaar password is built from your own name and birth year. Here is the rule, the awkward cases, and how to remove it for good.
Read the guideHow to turn a bank statement PDF into a spreadsheet
What a statement PDF actually contains, why copy and paste ruins the columns, and what differs between SBI, HDFC and ICICI files.
Read the guideGetting Hindi text out of a scan
Recognition in Devanagari is harder than in English. What to scan, what to expect, and which tool fits which job.
Read the guideWhy PDF to Word loses formatting
A PDF records where things sit, not how the document was built. That gap is what you see in the converted file.
Read the guideWhich PDFs actually shrink, and which never will
Compression works on pictures. Knowing whether your file is pictures or text tells you the answer before you try.
Read the guidePDF passwords and restrictions are not the same thing
One stops the file opening. The other only asks software politely not to print. Knowing which you have changes what to do.
Read the guideScanning a document: JPG, PNG or PDF
Each format is good at something different. Picking wrongly costs you either quality or a file nobody can open properly.
Read the guideWhen you need OCR, and when you do not
If you can select a word in your PDF, it already has text. Running recognition on it costs quality for nothing.
Read the guideConverting a PDF to Office formats you can actually edit
Word, Excel and PowerPoint each rebuild something different from the same page. Expect a different kind of mess from each.
Read the guideAssembling a long document: order, pages and numbering
The order of operations matters. Doing these steps the other way round means doing several of them twice.
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