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You can use our Password Protect tool to protect your PDF file with a secure and nearly unbreakable password at no cost.

Add page numbers to your PDF documents online and for free. If necessary, combine several documents before adding page numbers.

Learn how to leave the page numbering of your Word document exactly the way you need it.

Discover in these step by step how to print PDFs offline or online from your preferred PDF reader.

View your PDF files online, without needing to download any software, with Smallpdf PDF Reader.

Learn how to convert document to PDF and share it with others by email or with a shareable link.

Learn how you can change the default download location on popular web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge, and Internet Explorer.

Check out our tutorial on how you can preserve your documents’ fonts, even when you share them with others or view them on other devices.

You can save any email you receive in Microsoft Outlook as a PDF file in a few simple clicks—and we’ll show you how.

Use the Smallpdf eSign service to create a free electronic signature and sign your new contract. You can also request others to sign a contract.

Learn what a traditional wet signature is, and how you can quickly create your own electronic signature from the 'wet' version with Smallpdf—for free.

Use the PDF eSign tool to create your electronic signature online, for free. No account is needed to create signatures and sign documents.

Use our online PDF highlighter to highlight text in your PDF documents online for free. No registration is needed to access the online tool.

Make your files editable and share them easily with Smallpdf.

The Smallpdf online OCR converter can help you convert and process various file types to an editable document.

Smallpdf can help you create a digital signature and digitally sign your documents within minutes. You can also request verifiable signatures.

The Smallpdf’s Image Compressor can reduce the size of your images significantly, to lower than 50KB. It’s also free to use online.

You can use our PDF2WORD tool to save PDF documents into editable Word files seamlessly, for free!

You can use the Smallpdf Protect PDF tool to encrypt your PDFs with unbreakable passwords online—for free.

You can quickly follow the instructions in this article to change your Google Doc to landscape orientation in a few quick clicks.

Use our online compressor tool to reduce the size of your images. You don’t need to register for an account to use our online tool.

Follow these three steps to use Smallpdf’s PDF Maker and convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or image files to PDF format.

Scan any document into a PDF file with the Smallpdf Mobile App. You can also convert your scanned PDF to many other file formats, with Smallpdf.

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