PDF Tools for Students and Teachers

From scanned lecture notes to assignment submissions, students and teachers deal with a specific, repetitive set of document problems. Here's what actually helps.

• OCR Image

  A photo of handwritten or printed notes isn't searchable or copyable text until it's run through OCR — this tool converts the image directly to text you can search, copy, and edit.

• JPG to PDF

  Turning a set of photographed pages into a single PDF, in reading order, is exactly what this tool does — the standard way to submit a handwritten assignment digitally.

• Compress PDF

  Most learning management systems and email attachments cap upload size — this tool shrinks an oversized scanned assignment PDF to fit under that limit.

• Merge PDF

  Combining a semester's worth of separate lecture-note PDFs into one file for review before an exam is a direct fit for this tool.

• Extract Pages

  Pulling just the relevant chapter or section out of a long assigned reading, without carrying the rest of the document along, is what this tool does.