Essential Apps to Install on Windows and macOS
Just unboxed a new computer? Here's our curated list of essential Windows and macOS apps for productivity, security, entertainment, and everything you need to get up and running.
PDFsam 6.0 adds compression tools and PDF 2.0 support
PDFsam Basic is a free, open-source tool for splitting, merging, and organizing PDFs. Version 6.0 adds three compression modes, better support for PDF 2.0 and UTF-8 text, stronger handling for malformed files, and more quality-of-life improvements.
The humble PDF is becoming a problem for AI
PDFs are structurally hostile to large language models
Looking ahead: Three decades after Adobe introduced the Portable Document Format – a design intended to preserve the appearance of printed pages across devices – PDFs are facing pressure from a completely different kind of reader: artificial intelligence. The same fixed layouts that made PDFs indispensable to human users now make them difficult for large language models to interpret. Unlike web pages or plain-text files, columns, embedded graphics, and hidden metadata in PDFs often confuse machine parsing systems trained to process linear text.
DocuSign debuts contract-trained AI to explain documents before you sign them
Great for those pesky iPhone EULAs, but not a replacement for real lawyers
The PDF gets a makeover: Adobe integrates generative AI into everyday documents
The new features mark the end of paper-like digital documents
Balabolka is a free text-to-speech tool for Windows
Balabolka converts written text into spoken audio using installed speech synthesis engines, such as Microsoft SAPI. It supports a wide range of file formats-including Docs, ePub, and PDFs, allowing allows users to save the output as audio files. This makes it useful for accessibility, language learning, and content narration.
Use PDFsam to split, merge, and organize PDFs in a snap
PDFsam Basic is a free, cross-platform tool that allows you to perform a wide range of PDF tasks, including merging, splitting, rotating, and converting files. You can split PDFs by page number, file size, or bookmark levels, mix multiple PDFs, and more.
Student turns a PDF into a functional Linux emulator
First Tetris, then Doom, now Linux -- what's next?
Adobe Acrobat can help users understand contract jargon with new PDF AI tools
Many consumers don't fully understand the contracts they are signing
Latest Doom port runs inside a PDF document, but performance is limited
Rip, tear, and Emscripten
Tetris has been crammed into a tiny 60KB PDF, works in any browser
Falling tetriminos find new life in a PDF
New Microsoft Edge feature uses GenAI to scan PDF documents
Now you can better understand what that legal document is all about
Microsoft patents a system that encrypts documents so you can read them in public without being visually hacked
There are other ways to prevent visual hacking, but they all have limitations
Adobe's new PDF assistant can summarize documents and answer questions
Free until it comes out of beta
How to create a PDF that is bigger than a country - or even a continent
Just don't try to print it out
Apple releases OS updates across all devices: PDF AutoFill, spatial video capture, Journal app, and more
New features added for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch
Adobe updates Acrobat Reader to fix zero-day vulnerability
Adobe recently added several new features to Acrobat Reader including drag-and-drop support for combining files, new undo and redo options, and more. However, today's update addresses security issues discovered in the latest release.
Save Any Web Page as an Image or PDF
Ever read a web page and wanted to keep it offline to study later? Read on and you'll be saving web pages as PDFs and images in no time at all.
The latest version of IrfanView adds PDF capabilities
The simple yet powerful image viewer and editor IrfanView supports almost all image formats and now incorporates PDF capabilities in its latest version.
The world's most popular PDF reader is coming to Microsoft Edge
Arriving this March
5 Adobe PDF Reader Alternatives That Do More for Free
There are several free PDF editors that include functionality that Adobe's Reader doesn't, such as merging two PDFs, rotating a page, and many others. This guide will help you choose the best tool for you.
PDFsam lets you perform all types of PDF file manipulation for free
With PDFsam Basic you can convert, merge, split or extract pages from PDF files and more. It is open source and available for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Sumatra PDF is a lightweight and open source PDF viewer
Sumatra PDF is compatible with PDF, CHM, DjVu and XPS formats as well as comic books. It's designed for portable use, letting you run it from an USB drive thanks to its minimalistic 7 MB footprint.
How to Save PDF Pages as JPG Images in Windows and macOS
If you want to neatly share PDF pages or extract info from a PDF without relying on ugly screenshots, you should convert them to JPG images. Here's how you do it in the most effortless manner.
Adobe's Liquid Mode uses machine learning to make PDFs more readable on mobile devices
PDFs finally make sense on smaller screens