Pdf News and Articles

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.

By Ivan Franco, March 31, 2026, 11:24 AM

Software AI

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.

Full story By Skye Jacobs, February 26, 2026, 12:36 PM 49 comments

Software AI

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

By Kishalaya Kundu, January 16, 2026, 12:48 PM

Essential Apps to Install on Windows and macOS

FEATURE By TechSpot Staff, January 2, 2026, 12:04 AM TechSpot Software

Just unboxed your new computer? Here's our curated list of essential desktop apps for Windows and macOS to kickstart your productivity and set up the perfect workspace.

Software AI

The PDF gets a makeover: Adobe integrates generative AI into everyday documents

The new features mark the end of paper-like digital documents

By Skye Jacobs, August 20, 2025, 7:03 AM 10 comments

Download of the Week Software

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.

By Ivan Franco, August 4, 2025, 2:55 PM

Download of the Week Software

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.

By Ivan Franco, April 21, 2025, 12:54 PM

Software Tech Culture

Student turns a PDF into a functional Linux emulator

First Tetris, then Doom, now Linux -- what's next?

By Daniel Sims, February 13, 2025, 6:15 AM

Software AI

Adobe Acrobat can help users understand contract jargon with new PDF AI tools

Many consumers don't fully understand the contracts they are signing

By Skye Jacobs, February 5, 2025, 6:15 AM

Gaming Software

Latest Doom port runs inside a PDF document, but performance is limited

Rip, tear, and Emscripten

By Alfonso Maruccia, January 14, 2025, 1:32 PM

Gaming Tech Culture

Tetris has been crammed into a tiny 60KB PDF, works in any browser

Falling tetriminos find new life in a PDF

By Zo Ahmed, January 13, 2025, 6:59 AM

Microsoft Software

New Microsoft Edge feature uses GenAI to scan PDF documents

Now you can better understand what that legal document is all about

By Skye Jacobs, August 14, 2024, 8:57 AM

Security Microsoft

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

By Skye Jacobs, July 6, 2024, 8:38 AM

Software AI

Adobe's new PDF assistant can summarize documents and answer questions

Free until it comes out of beta

By Rob Thubron, February 21, 2024, 5:17 AM

Software

How to create a PDF that is bigger than a country - or even a continent

Just don't try to print it out

By Erika Morphy, February 3, 2024, 9:15 AM

Software Apple

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

By Daniel Sims, December 12, 2023, 5:45 PM

Software Download of the Week

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.

By Ivan Franco, September 13, 2023, 12:35 PM

Save Any Web Page as an Image or PDF

FEATURE By Nick Evanson, April 14, 2023, 6:09 AM TechSpot Software

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.

Software Download of the Week

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.

By Ivan Franco, April 13, 2023, 8:49 PM

The Web Microsoft

The world's most popular PDF reader is coming to Microsoft Edge

Arriving this March

By Rob Thubron, February 9, 2023, 6:18 AM

5 Adobe PDF Reader Alternatives That Do More for Free

FEATURE By Amir Shoam, November 17, 2022, 9:55 AM TechSpot Software

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.

Software Download of the Week

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.

By Ivan Franco, November 2, 2022, 4:51 PM

Software Download of the Week

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.

By Ivan Franco, May 25, 2022, 1:13 PM

How to Save PDF Pages as JPG Images in Windows and macOS

FEATURE By Amir Shoam, March 17, 2022, 6:10 AM TechSpot Software

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.

Software Mobile

Adobe's Liquid Mode uses machine learning to make PDFs more readable on mobile devices

PDFs finally make sense on smaller screens

By Adrian Potoroaca, September 24, 2020, 6:14 AM