The FastPDFconverter Blog
Notes from day-to-day PDF work. Specific tools, specific problems, honest takes on what works.
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How to shrink a PDF without making it look like garbage
A lender bounced my 31 MB appraisal, so I ran the file through six compressors in twenty minutes. Here's what I learned about which knob actually matters.
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PDF to Word or PDF to Text — how to pick the one that won't waste your afternoon
A lawyer sent me a contract to edit. I picked PDF to Word. That was the wrong call. Here's how to avoid the same mistake.
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Your scanned PDF is lying to you
Ctrl+F says the word isn't there. You can literally see it on the page. Here's what's going on, and the five-second trick to fix it.
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