Templates
A template is several tools in a fixed order — compress, then strip the metadata, then file it — run over whatever you hand it. Everything happens on this device, the same as everywhere else here.
Someone sent you a code?
Paste it here — one template (pw1_) or a whole set (pwset1_). A code carries the steps and nothing else: there is no document inside one, and every step is checked against the tools this version actually has before it is saved.
Ready to email
Built inShrink it to fit an attachment limit and take the metadata off before it leaves.
- Compress
- Strip metadata
Fit an upload limit
Built inFor the government portal that wants 500 KB and will not say why.
- Compress
As small as it will go
Built in200 KB or the nearest it can manage. Expect the pictures to soften; the text will be fine.
- Compress
- Strip metadata
Fix a file that will not open
Built inRebuild a damaged PDF, then strip whatever the damage left behind.
- Repair
- Strip metadata
Invoice for the books
Built inMake a scanned invoice searchable, then small enough to keep a decade of them.
- Read the text
- Compress
- Strip metadata
Scan to searchable
Built inTurn a photographed or scanned document into one you can search, then make it small.
- Read the text
- Compress
- Strip metadata
Straighten a sideways scan
Built inTurn every page a quarter turn the right way up, then read the text off it.
- Rotate
- Read the text
Turn an upside-down scan
Built inFor the feeder that took the whole stack the wrong way round.
- Rotate
- Read the text
- Strip metadata
Archive a scanned book
Built inSearchable, numbered and small enough to keep — for something you scanned once and want forever.
- Read the text
- Add page numbers
- Compress
Before you send it
Built inBake in the form fields and annotations, then strip the metadata. Nothing left to read but the page.
- Flatten
- Strip metadata
After you have redacted
Built inFlattens the boxes you drew into the page and strips the metadata. Use the Redact tool first to remove the text — this bakes in what you did, it does not go looking for anything.
- Flatten
- Strip metadata
- Compress
Strip everything strippable
Built inAuthor, producer, the XMP block, the form fields and the annotations. The page, and nothing else.
- Flatten
- Strip metadata
Draft for review
Built inStamp DRAFT across every page and number them, so nobody circulates the wrong version.
- Watermark
- Add page numbers
Confidential copy
Built inWatermarked, flattened so the mark cannot simply be deleted, and stripped of metadata.
- Watermark
- Flatten
- Strip metadata
Final, for circulation
Built inNumbered, stripped and sized for an inbox. The version you actually send.
- Add page numbers
- Compress
- Strip metadata
Photo for the web
Built inRe-encode a picture down to something a page can load without a wait.
- Shrink the picture
Picture for an email
Built inAbout a megabyte — small enough to send, large enough to still look like the photograph.
- Shrink the picture
Profile picture
Built in80 KB, for the form that rejects anything larger and does not say so until you press submit.
- Shrink the picture