PDFresh Guides

Learn how to remove blank backs, separator sheets, duplicate scans, and unwanted pages from a scanned PDF while reviewing every page before export.

Fix sideways or upside-down scanned PDF pages by rotating individual pages in the browser, saving the correction, and knowing what rotation cannot repair.

Decide whether to extract selected pages into a new PDF or delete pages from the current document when cleaning scans, packets, or long files.

Merge scanned documents locally in your browser after cleaning blank or sideways pages, arranging files in order, and checking the final packet.

Prepare a client PDF packet by cleaning scans, extracting only needed pages, merging documents, and checking text layers locally.

Understand why PDF text cannot be copied, including image-only scans, missing text layers, font encoding problems, and copy restrictions.

Learn the difference between an existing PDF text layer and OCR, why scanned images need recognition, and when PDFresh text extraction can help.

Learn what browser-side PDF processing means, what no-upload workflows protect, what they do not guarantee, and what aggregate analytics may collect.