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Open the app — Document Batch Generator You need 200 certificates. The form is identical and only the name and number change. Type a name in a word processor, print. Change the name, print. Two hundred times. Mail merge, you say — but not if the form arrived as a PDF or an image. Which is exactly how certificate templates come back from a design studio. This tool lays your PDF or image template down as it is and puts text on top. Write {n} and the number climbs; paste in a table and several values such as name and affiliation change together. The result is one PDF. All 200 pages in a single file, ready to hand to the printer. ...

Open the app — PDF Border Cleaner Lay a book face down on a copier and everything around it comes out pitch black. The lid can’t close, so the empty space gets photographed along with the page. Material from libraries usually arrives in exactly this state. On screen you shrug it off, but printing is another matter. Filling in those black borders drains toner alarmingly fast, and the paper comes out damp. Print one 100-page document and you start resenting the cost of toner. ...

Open the app — PDF Left-Right Splitter Open a scanned classical text from a library and more often than not it was photographed with the book lying open. Two pages on one sheet. On paper that feels natural, but on a screen or a tablet the characters end up half size. The page numbers are half the real count too, so every citation needs arithmetic. This tool cuts such PDFs down the middle and separates them into single pages. It sounds simple, but in practice plenty of things get in the way. The cover is a single sheet yet gets sliced in half, vertically written books must be read right to left, and characters near the binding get cut off. Each of those has its own setting here. ...

Open the app — PDF Page Editor Sometimes you receive a 300-page collection when all you need is three pages. Other times you want to pull pieces from several files and bind them into one. Typing page numbers like 12-15, 47, 88-92 invites mistakes. Numbers alone don’t tell you what is actually on those pages. So this was built as a way to cut while looking. You drop dividers onto a horizontal bar and toggle green (keep) and red (remove). Up to five files can be loaded at once and bound into a single merged.pdf. ...

Open the app — PDF Page Reverser Have you ever scanned a classical Chinese book? A right-bound volume reads from right to left, so feeding it into the scanner in order gives you a file that comes out backwards. The last leaf ends up as page 1. The same thing happens when a sheet feeder pulls pages from the back. The scan itself is fine — only the order is flipped — so there’s no reason to scan it again. ...