Guides for everyday file jobs on Mac and Windows
Step-by-step answers for PDFs, photos and archives. Each guide shows the free way built into macOS or Windows first, then the faster way with File Acture.
Mac
Documents
How to Convert a PDF to Word on Mac Without Uploading It
Word for Mac can open a PDF through File › Open, but its PDF Reflow often shifts the layout, and Preview and Pages cannot export a PDF as Word at all. File Acture converts the PDF to a .docx on your Mac, keeping paragraphs, fonts and page size, without uploading the file.
How to Batch Rename Files on Mac with Numbering and Prefixes
To batch rename multiple files on Mac with consistent numbering and date prefixes, use File Acture. It renames hundreds of files safely with instant live previews and rollback support without complex terminal commands.
How to Convert a PDF to Excel on Mac (With Real Numbers)
Excel for Mac can't import a PDF: the Get Data › From PDF connector exists only in Excel for Windows, and pasting from Preview usually drops everything into one column. File Acture's Convert Files turns the PDF into an .xlsx on your Mac, one worksheet per page, with amounts stored as real numbers and account numbers kept as text.
How to Convert a PDF to PowerPoint on Mac as Editable Slides
PowerPoint, Keynote and Preview don't convert a PDF into editable slides; at most you can place a page on a slide as a picture. File Acture's Convert Files turns the PDF into a .pptx on your Mac, one slide per page, with each piece of text in an editable text box, and uploads nothing.
How to Convert a Scanned PDF to Word on Mac
macOS has no built-in way to turn a scanned PDF into Word, and Live Text only copies one selection at a time. File Acture's Convert Files reads each scanned page with the text recognition built into macOS and saves a .docx with editable text, on your Mac and without uploading the PDF.
How to Convert Excel to PDF on Mac and Fit It on One Page
To fit every column on one page, open the sheet in Excel, set Width to 1 page under Scale to Fit on the Page Layout tab (plus Landscape) and save as PDF; the setting is stored in the workbook. File Acture's Convert Files follows the same saved setup, so it turns .xlsx files into PDFs on your Mac without Excel, in batches and without uploading.
How to Convert PowerPoint to PDF on Mac, With or Without PowerPoint
If PowerPoint for Mac is installed, saving the deck as a PDF from PowerPoint is the most exact way; Keynote can export a .pptx too, but the layout may shift. Without PowerPoint, or for many decks at once, File Acture's Convert Files turns .pptx files into PDFs on your Mac without uploading anything.
How to Convert Word to PDF on Mac, One File or Many
If Word is installed, File › Save As… with PDF as the file format is the best way to turn a document into a PDF on a Mac, because Word's own layout keeps every page exactly as it is. Without Word, or for many files at once, File Acture's Convert Files turns .docx, .doc and .rtf files into PDFs on your Mac in one run, with no Office installed and nothing uploaded.
File Acture on the Mac App Store or From the Website: Which Should You Get?
File Acture is on the Mac App Store and on fileacture.com, with the same tools and the same free version in both. The difference is how you buy Pro: in the App Store it is an in-app purchase with your Apple Account that works on your Macs, while the website sells license keys that also work on Windows.
How to Edit Text in a PDF on Mac
Preview on a Mac can add text boxes, signatures and redactions to a PDF, but it can't change the words already on the page. To fix existing text, open the PDF in File Acture's Edit & Sign PDF, double-click the word or line, type the correction and save a new copy with Save PDF.
A PDF Expert Alternative for Mac With a One-Time Price
PDF Expert is an excellent Mac app for reading, annotating and editing PDFs, and its full editing tools come with a paid plan. If what you mostly need is to fix text, compress to a size limit, OCR scans or run the same job on many files, File Acture does that on your Mac for a one-time price, along with image and archive tools.
An Adobe Acrobat Alternative for Mac Without a Subscription
If you pay for Acrobat only to edit a line of text, compress, OCR, merge or password-protect PDFs, a Mac covers much of that for less. Preview handles reading, signing and simple merges for free, and File Acture adds text editing, compression to an exact size, OCR, batches and PDF to Word, Excel and PowerPoint conversion, on your Mac, for a one-time price.
How to Edit a Scanned PDF on Mac
Preview can't change the words in a scanned PDF, because a scan is a picture of the page and Live Text can only copy its words. File Acture's Edit & Sign PDF reads a scanned page with macOS text recognition when you open it, so you can click a line, retype it and save a new copy, all on your Mac.
How to Edit, Merge and Compress a PDF Without Uploading It
Every everyday PDF job can be done on your own Mac: Preview merges, splits, rotates and signs, and File Acture adds real text editing, target-size compression, OCR and batch runs. Nothing is uploaded, so contracts, payslips and client files never leave the machine.
How to Flatten PDF Form Fields on Mac So They Cannot Be Edited
To flatten interactive PDF form fields on Mac so text cannot be modified, use File Acture. It merges form inputs, checkboxes, and signatures permanently into the underlying page graphics locally on your device.
How to Sign a PDF on Mac
A quick free way to sign a PDF on a Mac is Preview: choose Tools > Annotate > Signature, create your signature with the trackpad, the camera or an iPhone or iPad, and click it to place it on the page. File Acture's Edit & Sign PDF does the same with a typed, drawn or image signature plus the date and your name, and saves a new copy without uploading anything.
How to Make a Scanned PDF Searchable on Mac
Preview and Live Text can read text off a scanned page, but they don't save it into the PDF, so Find and Spotlight still see only a picture. File Acture's OCR PDF recognizes the text on your Mac and embeds it as an invisible layer, giving you a searchable copy that looks just like the scan.
How to Redact a PDF on Mac Permanently
Preview can place black redaction marks over selectable text, but it misses scanned image pixels, leaves document metadata intact, and lacks pattern search. File Acture permanently removes matched text glyphs, overwrites image pixels, cleans document metadata, and saves a sanitized PDF copy locally on your Mac with no cloud upload.
How to Compress a PDF to a Specific Size on Mac
Preview's Reduce File Size filter can't aim for a size, so you get one fixed result that is often blurry or still too big. File Acture's Compress PDF lets you type a target such as 5 MB, 2 MB or 1 MB and finds the best image quality that fits, while text and vector graphics stay sharp.
An Offline iLovePDF Alternative for Mac
iLovePDF and Smallpdf are web services: your file is uploaded, processed on their servers and deleted after a while. File Acture runs the same kind of work — compress, merge, split, protect, OCR, convert — entirely on your Mac, with a one-time licence instead of a subscription and no daily task limit.
An Offline Smallpdf Alternative for Mac
Smallpdf processes files on remote cloud servers and caps free usage at two tasks per day. File Acture performs compression, merging, splitting, and redaction 100% locally on your Mac, with no cloud uploads, no subscriptions, and full offline support.
Are Online PDF Tools Safe? What Happens to Your File
Reputable online PDF tools encrypt the transfer and delete files automatically after a set period, so for ordinary documents they are reasonably safe. The risk is not the company being evil — it is that ID scans, payslips, medical letters and client work leave your control at all, which many employers and data protection rules do not allow.
How to Compress a PDF to 100 KB, 200 KB or 1 MB
Neither Preview on a Mac nor Windows can aim a PDF at a size such as 100 KB. File Acture's Compress PDF can: set Compress by to Target size, type 100 KB, 200 KB or 1 MB, and it finds the best image quality that fits, on your own computer. If the PDF can't get that small, it tells you the smallest size it can reach.
How to Compress a PDF to 500 KB, 2 MB, 5 MB or 10 MB on Mac
In File Acture's Compress PDF, set Compress by to Target size and type the number the form asks for, such as 500 KB, 2 MB, 5 MB or 10 MB: the app re-encodes only the images and keeps the best quality that fits. Whether a number is reachable depends on what is inside the PDF, so a one-page scan can drop far below 500 KB while a long, photo-heavy report may stop at a few megabytes.
How to Meet the PDF Size Limit on an Application Portal
Application portals usually cap each file at 2 MB or 5 MB and accept PDF only, so a phone photo of a document fails twice over. Convert the photos into one PDF, then compress that PDF to the exact limit — on a Mac you can do both without uploading anything.
PDF Too Large to Email? Here Is How to Send It
Mail providers count the whole message, not just the file, and encoding adds about a third on the way out, so a 25 MB cap really means a file of roughly 18 MB. Compress the PDF to a target size on your Mac — 10 MB is safe almost everywhere — or split it into parts and send them separately.
Reduce File Size in Preview: What It Does and Why It Blurs
Preview's Reduce File Size is a Quartz filter with fixed settings: it downsamples the images in a PDF and re-encodes them as JPEG, whatever the document is. That is why a scan can come back blurry, a text PDF barely shrinks, and you can never ask for a specific size.
How to Merge PDF Files on Mac
On a Mac you can merge PDFs for free by selecting them in Finder, Control-clicking and choosing Quick Actions > Create PDF, or by dragging pages between documents in Preview's sidebar. File Acture's Merge PDFs combines them in one step, in an order you drag into place, and writes a new file without touching the originals.
How to Split a PDF into Separate Files on Mac
In Preview you can split a PDF by dragging page thumbnails to the desktop or by printing a page range to a new PDF, one part at a time. File Acture's Split PDF splits the whole file in one run: every page, every few pages, or custom ranges such as 1-3, 5, 8-.
How to Extract Pages from a PDF on Mac
In Preview you can extract pages by selecting their thumbnails and dragging them to the desktop, or by printing a page range to a new PDF, one set at a time. File Acture's Split PDF takes the pages you type, such as 2-4, and saves each range as its own PDF in one run.
How to Rotate PDF Pages on Mac and Save Them
In Preview, select the page thumbnails and choose Tools > Rotate Left or Rotate Right (Command-L or Command-R), and the rotation is saved with the file. For several PDFs or specific page ranges, File Acture's Rotate Pages turns all or chosen pages in one run and saves rotated copies without re-encoding anything.
How to Password Protect a PDF on Mac
In Preview, choose File > Export, click Permissions, select Require Password To Open Document, enter the password and save; Apple's PDF engine behind it uses keys of at most 128 bits. File Acture's Protect PDF adds a password with AES-256 encryption to one or many PDFs in a single run and lets you allow or block printing, copying and editing.
How to Remove a Password from a PDF on Mac
If you know a PDF's password, open the file in Preview, choose File > Edit Permissions, deselect Require Password To Open Document and click Apply. File Acture's Unlock PDF does it for one or many PDFs: type the password once and it saves copies without encryption or restrictions, leaving the originals as they were.
How to Convert a PDF to JPG on Mac
Preview's File > Export saves one page of a PDF as a JPEG at a time, which is slow for long documents. File Acture's PDF to Images saves every page, or only the pages you choose, as JPG, PNG or WebP at 72, 150 or 300 DPI in one run.
How to Convert a PDF to PNG on Mac
Preview's File > Export saves one page of a PDF as a PNG at a time, which is slow for long documents. File Acture's PDF to Images saves every page, or only the pages you choose, as PNG at 72, 150 or 300 DPI in one run.
How to Extract Images from PDF on Mac in High Resolution
To extract images from a PDF on Mac at their original resolution, use File Acture. It extracts embedded graphics directly from the document structure as full-quality PNG or JPEG files without rendering screenshots or losing detail.
How to Convert Images to PDF on Mac
The quickest free way on a Mac is to select the images in Finder, Control-click and choose Quick Actions > Create PDF. For control over page order, A4 or US Letter pages and margins, File Acture's Images to PDF puts JPG, PNG, HEIC and other images into one PDF and embeds JPEGs without recompressing them.
How to Convert TIFF to PDF on Mac
The quickest free way on a Mac is Preview: open the TIFF and choose File > Export as PDF…; for single-page TIFFs, the sips command in Terminal makes one PDF per file. File Acture's Images to PDF puts several TIFFs into one PDF, one per page, in the order you set, with A4, US Letter or fit-to-image pages.
How to Remove Metadata from PDF on Mac
To remove metadata from a PDF on Mac without sending confidential documents to cloud servers, use File Acture. It strips author names, title properties, software fingerprints, and edit history locally in seconds while keeping pages intact.
Images
How to Convert HEIC to JPG on Mac
The fastest built-in way is to select the HEIC photos in Finder, Control-click and choose Quick Actions > Convert Image, then pick JPEG. File Acture's Convert Images does the same for batches with a quality setting, removes location data unless you keep metadata, and can also write PNG, WebP, HEIC and AVIF.
How to Convert AVIF to JPG on Mac
Open the AVIF file in Preview, choose File > Export (File > Export As… in macOS 27) and set Format to JPEG; for a whole folder, the sips command in Terminal converts every file. File Acture's Convert Images converts a batch in one run, on your Mac, with a quality setting, and can write PNG instead.
How to Convert HEIC to PNG on Mac
Select the HEIC photos in Finder, Control-click and choose Quick Actions > Convert Image, then pick PNG; Preview's File > Export works too. File Acture's Convert Images converts whole batches to PNG in one run, keeps colors and orientation, and leaves camera details and location out by default.
How to Convert PNG to JPG on Mac
The simplest built-in way is Preview: open the PNG, choose File > Export, set Format to JPEG and save; the sips command in Terminal converts a whole folder. File Acture's Convert Images converts batches with one quality slider, on your Mac, and fills transparent areas with white because JPG cannot store transparency.
How to Convert SVG to PNG on Mac with Transparent Background
To convert SVG vector files to transparent PNG on Mac without jagged edges, use File Acture. It renders vector paths at any scale with clean alpha transparency completely offline on your Mac.
How to Convert WebP to JPG on Mac
Open the WebP file in Preview, choose File > Export and set Format to JPEG; for a whole folder, the sips command in Terminal converts every file. File Acture's Convert Images converts a batch in one run, on your Mac, with a quality setting, and can write PNG instead.
How to Compress Images on Mac to a Target Size
Preview can shrink a single photo: choose File > Export, pick JPEG and drag the Quality slider while watching the file size. To compress many images to a limit such as 500 KB or 1 MB, File Acture's Compress Images finds the highest quality that fits each file and scales a photo down only when quality alone isn't enough.
How to Compress and Convert Files with a Right-Click on Mac
Finder already has a few Quick Actions in its right-click menu, such as Convert Image and Create PDF. File Acture adds one more, Quick Actions > File Acture…, which compresses PDFs and photos, converts images, merges PDFs, removes metadata and packs or unpacks archives in the background, with the settings you last used, without opening the app's window.
How to Reduce a Photo to 100 KB, 50 KB or 200 KB
Preview on a Mac and the Photos app on Windows can lower a photo's quality or size, but you have to guess until the file drops under the limit. File Acture's Compress Images takes the limit itself: set Compress by to Target size, type 100 KB (or 50 or 200 KB), and it finds the highest quality that fits, scaling the photo down only when quality alone isn't enough.
How to Resize Images in Bulk on Mac
In Preview you can open several images in one window, select all thumbnails and choose Tools > Adjust Size to resize them together, but Preview changes the original files. File Acture's Resize Images scales a whole batch to a longest edge such as 2048 px or to a percentage, saves new files and never enlarges an image.
How to Resize a Photo for an Online Application Form
Application forms set two separate limits: the pixel size of the image and the size of the file in kilobytes. Resize the photo to the pixel dimensions first, then compress it to the KB limit — on a Mac both steps take about a minute and no upload.
How to Resize Photos for Passport and Visa on Mac
Official document applications require exact millimeter dimensions and 300 DPI resolutions that built-in tools cannot crop automatically without distortion. File Acture's Resize Images provides ready-to-use presets for biometric passports (35×45 mm), US visas (2×2 inches), and ID cards with automatic Crop and Fill framing.
How to Remove Location Data from Photos on Mac
On a Mac you can remove a photo's location in Preview: choose Tools > Show Inspector, open the GPS tab and remove the location, or leave the location out when you export from the Photos app. File Acture's Remove Metadata strips location, camera details, dates and comments from whole batches and keeps the exact pixels of JPEG, PNG and WebP files.
How to Remove the Background from Photos on Mac
macOS can remove the background from a photo by itself: right-click it in Finder and choose Quick Actions > Remove Background, or use Tools > Remove Background in Preview. File Acture's Remove Background does whole batches on your Mac and adds what listings need: a white or any color background, cropping to the subject with padding, a square canvas and a file size limit.
A remove.bg Alternative for Mac That Works Offline
remove.bg is a web service: you upload a photo, and full-resolution results cost credits or a plan. On a Mac, Finder and Preview can remove a background from one photo for free, and File Acture's Remove Background does whole batches on your Mac, at full resolution, on a transparent, white or colored background, for a one-time price.
How to Make a Passport or Visa Photo Background White on Mac
In File Acture's Remove Background, choose Color and make sure it is white, save as JPEG, pick Square 1:1 if the form asks for a square photo and turn on Limit file size if it has a maximum. Photo rules differ by country and office, and some offices don't accept edited photos, so read the guide of the office you apply to before you edit.
How to Make a Photo Background White on Mac
macOS can cut out the subject of a photo, but only onto a transparent background: to get white you'd still have to place the cutout on a white page in another app. File Acture's Remove Background does both in one step: choose Color and White, and every photo is saved with a clean white background, as JPEG, PNG or WebP, in whole batches.
How to Put Product Photos on a White Background in Bulk on Mac
Marketplaces such as Amazon want the main product photo on pure white, with the product filling most of the frame. File Acture's Remove Background does that for a whole shoot on your Mac: choose Color and White, turn on Crop to subject with a small Padding, pick a Square 1:1 canvas and save as JPEG, with an optional size limit.
How to Extract Text from an Image on a Mac
On a Mac, Live Text lets you select and copy the text in one image at a time in Preview, Photos or Quick Look. For many images at once, File Acture's Extract Text reads them on your Mac, saves the text as .txt files and copies it to the clipboard.
Archives
How to Create a Password-Protected ZIP on Mac
Finder's Compress command can't add a password, and the Terminal command zip -e only uses the old ZipCrypto scheme, which has well-known weaknesses. File Acture's Create ZIP packs files and folders into a ZIP encrypted with AES-256 that File Acture, 7-Zip, WinZip and Keka open with the password.
How to Password Protect an Existing ZIP File on Mac
Finder cannot add a password to an already compressed ZIP file without manual extraction and Terminal scripts. File Acture's Protect Archive tool lets you drop an existing ZIP directly, apply a password, and encrypts it with AES-256 without leaving unencrypted temporary files on your disk.
How to Open 7z Files on Mac, Including Password-Protected Ones
Recent versions of macOS extract a plain 7z file when you double-click it, and the tar command in Terminal can too. For password-protected 7z archives, or to unpack several archives safely in one run, File Acture's Extract Archive opens 7z, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2 and XZ files, including AES-256 encrypted and split ones.
Windows
Documents
How to Convert a PDF to Word on Windows for Free
If Word is installed, File › Open can open a PDF and convert it into an editable document, though the layout often shifts. Without Word, or for several files at once, File Acture's Convert Files turns a PDF into a .docx on your PC, keeping each line's text, font, size and bold, and uploads nothing.
How to Convert a PDF to Excel on Windows
If you have Excel from Microsoft 365, Data › Get Data › From File › From PDF imports the tables of a digital PDF, and it works well when the tables are clearly laid out. For any PDF without a subscription or an upload, File Acture's Convert Files turns every page into its own worksheet on your PC, with amounts stored as real numbers and long IDs kept as text.
How to Convert a PDF to PowerPoint on Windows as Editable Slides
PowerPoint and Microsoft Edge don't convert a PDF into editable slides; at most you can place a page on a slide as a picture. File Acture's Convert Files turns the PDF into a .pptx on your PC, one slide per page, with each piece of text in an editable text box, and uploads nothing.
How to Convert a Scanned PDF to Word on Windows
Windows has no built-in way to turn a scanned PDF into Word; Snipping Tool and PowerToys can only copy text off the screen. File Acture's Convert Files reads each scanned page with the text recognition built into Windows and saves a .docx with editable text on your PC, without uploading the PDF.
How to Convert Excel to PDF on Windows and Fit It on One Page
To fit every column on one page, open the sheet in Excel, set Width to 1 page under Scale to Fit on the Page Layout tab (plus Landscape) and save as PDF; the setting is stored in the workbook. Without Excel, File Acture's Convert Files turns .xlsx files into PDFs on your PC, in batches and without uploading; it lays the pages out itself, shrinking a wide sheet to the page width.
How to Convert PowerPoint to PDF on Windows, With or Without PowerPoint
If PowerPoint is installed, File › Export › Create PDF/XPS Document (or Save As with PDF as the file type) gives the most exact PDF, with notes pages, handouts and hidden slides as options. Without PowerPoint, or for many decks at once, File Acture's Convert Files turns .pptx files into PDFs on your PC without uploading anything.
How to Convert Word to PDF on Windows, One File or Many
If Word is installed, File › Save As with PDF as the file type is the best way to turn a document into a PDF on Windows, because Word's own layout keeps every page exactly as it is. Without Word, or for many files at once, File Acture's Convert Files turns .docx files into PDFs on your PC in one run, with no Office installed and nothing uploaded.
File Acture from the Microsoft Store or the Website: Which Should You Get?
File Acture is in the Microsoft Store and on fileacture.com, and both install the same signed Windows app. Pro works the same way in both: you buy a license key on fileacture.com and enter it in the app, and File Acture keeps itself up to date either way.
How to Edit Text in a PDF on Windows
Microsoft Edge can add text boxes and drawings to a PDF, but it can't change the words already on the page, and Word can only by converting the whole file into a document. To fix existing text in place, open the PDF in File Acture's Edit & Sign PDF, double-click the word or line, type the correction and save a new copy with Save PDF.
An Adobe Acrobat Alternative for Windows Without a Subscription
If you pay for Acrobat only to edit a line of text, compress, OCR, merge or password-protect PDFs, your PC can do that for less. Microsoft Edge handles reading, highlighting and simple form filling for free, and File Acture adds text editing, compression to an exact size, OCR, batches and PDF to Word, Excel and PowerPoint conversion, on your PC, for a one-time price.
How to Sign a PDF on Windows
A quick free way to sign a PDF on Windows is Microsoft Edge: open the PDF, click Draw and write your signature with the mouse, a pen or your finger. File Acture's Edit & Sign PDF lets you draw your signature in a box, place it on the page and add the date and your name as text, then saves a new copy on your PC without uploading anything.
How to Make a Scanned PDF Searchable on Windows
Snipping Tool's Text actions and PowerToys Text Extractor can copy text off a scanned page on your screen, but they don't save it into the PDF, so a search in Edge still finds nothing. File Acture's OCR PDF recognizes the text on your PC and embeds it as an invisible layer, giving you a searchable copy that looks just like the scan.
How to Redact a PDF on Windows Permanently
Drawing a black box or highlighting in black does not redact a PDF; anyone can still copy the text beneath it or extract underlying image pixels. File Acture permanently removes matched text glyphs, overwrites image pixels, cleans document metadata, and saves a sanitized PDF copy right on your PC without uploading.
How to Compress a PDF to a Specific Size on Windows
Windows has no built-in PDF compressor: Edge can't shrink a PDF, and printing it to Microsoft Print to PDF offers no size or quality setting, so the copy is often no smaller and sometimes larger. File Acture's Compress PDF lets you type a target such as 5 MB, 2 MB or 1 MB and finds the best image quality that fits, while text and vector graphics stay sharp.
An Offline iLovePDF Alternative for Windows
iLovePDF and Smallpdf are web services first: your file is uploaded, processed on their servers and deleted after a while, and their Windows desktop apps keep the advanced features for paying subscribers. File Acture does the same kind of work (compress, merge, split, protect, OCR, convert) entirely on your PC, with a size you type instead of preset levels and a one-time license instead of a subscription.
How to Compress a PDF to 500 KB, 2 MB, 5 MB or 10 MB on Windows
Windows can't aim a PDF at a size: printing to Microsoft Print to PDF has no quality setting, and Edge can't shrink a PDF. In File Acture's Compress PDF, set Compress by to Target size and type the number the form asks for, such as 0.5, 2, 5 or 10 MB, and the app re-encodes only the images and keeps the best quality that fits.
Why Microsoft Print to PDF Makes Large Files (and What to Do)
Microsoft Print to PDF has no quality or compression settings: it rebuilds the document from whatever the app sends to the printer, so pictures can come through at print resolution and a printed PDF rarely gets smaller, and sometimes grows a lot. To shrink a PDF, compress its images to a target size instead, or save Office documents as PDF with the Minimum size option.
How to Merge PDF Files on Windows
Windows can't merge PDFs from File Explorer or Edge, and Microsoft Print to PDF prints one document per job; Power Automate, which comes with Windows 11, can combine them in a small flow you build yourself. File Acture's Merge PDFs combines them in one step, in an order you drag into place, and writes a new file without touching the originals.
How to Split a PDF into Separate Files on Windows
On Windows you can split a PDF by printing a page range from Edge to Microsoft Print to PDF, one part per print job, and each printed part loses its links and bookmarks. File Acture's Split PDF splits the whole file in one run: every page, every few pages, or custom ranges such as 1-3, 5, 8-.
How to Extract Pages from a PDF on Windows
On Windows you can extract pages by printing just those pages from Microsoft Edge to Microsoft Print to PDF, which writes a printed copy that loses its links and bookmarks. File Acture's Split PDF takes the pages you type, such as 2-4, copies them as they are and saves each range as its own PDF in one run.
How to Rotate PDF Pages on Windows and Save Them
Microsoft Edge's rotate button only turns the view: close the tab and the pages are sideways again, because nothing is saved in the file. To keep the new orientation, File Acture's Rotate Pages turns all or chosen pages in one or more PDFs and saves rotated copies without re-encoding anything.
How to Password Protect a PDF on Windows
Windows has no built-in way to password-protect a PDF: Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Print to PDF have no password option, and Word can add an open password only to PDFs it saves itself. File Acture's Protect PDF adds a password with AES-256 encryption to one or many PDFs in a single run and lets you allow or block printing, copying and editing.
How to Remove a Password from a PDF on Windows
If you know a PDF's password, open the file in Microsoft Edge, enter the password and print it to Microsoft Print to PDF, which saves a copy without the password as long as the PDF allows printing. File Acture's Unlock PDF does it for one or many PDFs: type the password once and it saves copies without encryption or restrictions, keeping links, bookmarks and form fields and leaving the originals as they were.
How to Convert a PDF to JPG on Windows
Windows has no built-in way to convert a PDF to JPG; the closest is a Snipping Tool screenshot of each page open in Microsoft Edge, which only has your screen's resolution. File Acture's PDF to Images saves every page, or only the pages you choose, as JPG or PNG at 72, 150 or 300 DPI in one run.
How to Convert a PDF to PNG on Windows
Windows has no built-in way to convert a PDF to PNG; the closest is a Snipping Tool screenshot of each page open in Microsoft Edge, which only has your screen's resolution. File Acture's PDF to Images saves every page, or only the pages you choose, as PNG at 72, 150 or 300 DPI in one run.
How to Convert Images to PDF on Windows
The free built-in way on Windows is to select the pictures in File Explorer, right-click, choose Print and pick Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer. For control over page order, A4 or Letter pages and margins, File Acture's Images to PDF puts JPG, PNG, HEIC and other images into one PDF and embeds JPEGs without recompressing them.
How to Convert TIFF to PDF on Windows
The free built-in way on Windows is to select the TIFFs in File Explorer, right-click, choose Print and pick Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer. File Acture's Images to PDF puts several TIFFs into one PDF, one per page, in the order you set, with A4, Letter or match-image pages.
Images
How to Convert HEIC to JPG on Windows
Once Windows can show your HEIC photos, open one in Photos, click See more (…), choose Save as and pick JPG; Paint's File > Save as works too, one photo at a time. File Acture's Convert Images converts whole batches with one quality setting, removes location data unless you keep metadata, and can also write PNG or WebP.
How to Convert AVIF to JPG on Windows
Open the AVIF image in Paint and choose File > Save as > JPEG picture, or use Photos: See more (…) > Save as; both work one image at a time once Windows can open AVIF. File Acture's Convert Images converts a whole batch in one run, on your PC, with a quality setting, and can write PNG instead.
How to Convert HEIC to PNG on Windows
Once Windows can show your HEIC photos, open one in Paint and choose File > Save as > PNG picture; it works one photo at a time. File Acture's Convert Images converts whole batches to PNG in one run, turns photos upright, and leaves camera details and location out by default.
How to Convert PNG to JPG on Windows
Open the PNG in Paint and choose File > Save as > JPEG picture, or use Save as in the Photos app; both work one picture at a time. File Acture's Convert Images converts whole batches with one quality slider, on your PC, and fills transparent areas with white because JPG cannot store transparency.
How to Convert WebP to JPG on Windows
Open the WebP file in Paint and choose File > Save as > JPEG picture, or use Photos: See more (…) > Save as; both work one image at a time. File Acture's Convert Images converts a whole batch in one run, on your PC, with a quality setting, and can write PNG instead.
How to Compress Images on Windows to a Target Size
The Photos app can shrink one picture at a time: open it, click See more (…) > Resize image, lower the Quality or the pixel size and save a resized copy. To compress many images to a limit such as 500 KB or 1 MB, File Acture's Compress Images finds the highest quality that fits each file and scales a photo down only when quality alone isn't enough.
How to Compress and Convert Files with a Right-Click on Windows
File Explorer's right-click menu can already zip files, extract ZIPs and rotate pictures. File Acture adds its own entry, File Acture, which compresses PDFs and photos, converts images, merges PDFs, removes metadata and creates or extracts archives in the background, with the settings you last used, without opening the app's window. On Windows 11 it sits under Show more options.
How to Resize Images in Bulk on Windows
Windows resizes one picture at a time in Photos or Paint, and Microsoft's free PowerToys add-on brings Image Resizer, which resizes a whole selection from File Explorer's right-click menu. File Acture's Resize Images scales a batch to a longest edge such as 2048 px or to a percentage, saves new files and never enlarges an image.
How to Resize Photos for Passport and Visa on Windows
Government portals require precise millimeter measurements and 300 DPI print quality that standard Windows editing tools cannot produce with automatic crop framing. File Acture on Windows includes biometric presets for passports (35×45 mm), US visas (2×2 inches), and ID cards with automatic Crop and Fill centering.
How to Remove Location Data from Photos on Windows
In File Explorer, select the photos, right-click, choose Properties, and on the Details tab click Remove Properties and Personal Information to create copies with all possible properties removed; it works best on JPEG. File Acture's Remove Metadata strips location, camera details, dates and comments from whole batches, including HEIC, AVIF and TIFF photos, and keeps the exact pixels of JPEG, PNG and WebP files.
How to Remove the Background from Photos on Windows
Windows 11 can remove the background from a photo by itself: open it in Paint and click Remove background, or use the Background options in the Photos app's editor. File Acture's Remove Background does whole batches on your PC and adds what listings need: a white or any color background, cropping to the subject with padding, a square canvas and a file size limit.
A remove.bg Alternative for Windows That Works Offline
remove.bg is a web service: you upload a photo, and full-resolution results cost credits or a plan. On Windows 11, Paint and the Photos app can remove a background from one photo for free, and File Acture's Remove Background does whole batches on your PC, at full resolution, on a transparent, white or colored background, for a one-time price.
How to Make a Passport or Visa Photo Background White on Windows
In File Acture's Remove Background, choose Color and make sure it is white, save as JPEG, pick Square 1:1 if the form asks for a square photo and turn on Limit file size if it has a maximum. Photo rules differ by country and office, and some offices don't accept edited photos, so read the guide of the office you apply to before you edit.
How to Make a Photo Background White on Windows
Windows 11's Paint can cut out the subject of a photo, but it leaves the background transparent, and the Photos app works on one photo at a time. File Acture's Remove Background puts the subject on pure white in one step: choose Color and White, and every photo is saved with a clean white background, as JPEG, PNG or WebP, in whole batches.
How to Put Product Photos on a White Background in Bulk on Windows
Marketplaces such as Amazon want the main product photo on pure white, with the product filling most of the frame. File Acture's Remove Background does that for a whole shoot on your PC: choose Color and White, turn on Crop to subject with a small Padding, pick a Square 1:1 canvas and save as JPEG, with an optional size limit.
How to Extract Text from an Image on Windows
In Windows 11, Snipping Tool's Text actions and PowerToys Text Extractor can copy the text out of one image on your screen. For many images at once, File Acture's Extract Text reads them on your PC, saves the text as .txt files and copies it to the clipboard.
Archives
How to Create a Password-Protected ZIP on Windows
File Explorer's Compress to ZIP File has no password option, and neither does PowerShell's Compress-Archive, so Windows can't lock a ZIP by itself. File Acture's Create ZIP packs files and folders into a ZIP encrypted with AES-256, which the recipient opens with File Acture, 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip.
How to Password Protect an Existing ZIP File on Windows
Windows 10 and 11 File Explorer can't add a password to an existing ZIP file. File Acture puts the ZIP inside a new password-protected ZIP, with Standard (ZipCrypto) encryption that File Explorer can open, or AES-256 for stronger protection.
How to Open 7z Files on Windows, Including Password-Protected Ones
On Windows 11, File Explorer extracts a plain 7z file: right-click it and choose Extract All. For password-protected 7z archives, on Windows 10, or to unpack several archives safely in one run, File Acture's Extract Archive opens 7z, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2 and XZ files, including AES-256 encrypted and split ones.
iPhone & iPad
How to Convert a PDF to Word on iPhone
iOS has no PDF to Word converter, and copying text out of a PDF loses its layout. File Acture's Convert Files turns a PDF into an editable Word document (.docx) on the iPhone itself, keeping paragraphs, fonts, columns and pictures, and reads scanned pages with text recognition so they become editable too.
How to Edit PDF Text on iPhone
To edit existing text in a PDF on iPhone, you need an editor that modifies the text layer rather than drawing annotations. The built-in Files app and Markup can only draw shapes or paste text boxes, while File Acture lets you select, edit, and replace actual text directly on device without uploading your file.
How to Sign a PDF on iPhone and iPad
On an iPhone you can sign a PDF for free with Markup: open it in Files or Mail, tap the Markup button, then + and Add Signature. File Acture's Edit & Sign PDF also lets you draw or type a signature, add text, cover mistakes and fix words, and it saves a new signed copy so the original stays as it was.
How to Compress a PDF on iPhone and iPad
iOS has no built-in way to make a PDF smaller: the Files app's Compress command only puts it in a ZIP, which saves little. File Acture's Compress PDF shrinks a PDF on your iPhone or iPad to a target size you type, such as 2 MB, or to a quality level, and saves a new copy without uploading the file.
How to Merge PDF Files on iPhone and iPad
On an iPhone you can combine PDFs for free in the Files app: select them, tap More and choose Create PDF. File Acture's Merge PDFs does it in an order you set by dragging the files, names the result and leaves the originals untouched, all on the device.
How to Split a PDF into Separate Files on iPhone
To split a PDF on iPhone, you can use the Print trick to export a few pages or use an offline tool to divide the whole file. File Acture's Split PDF cuts any document into single pages, fixed page chunks, or custom ranges like 1-3, 5, 8- directly on your device without uploading files to the web.
How to Password Protect a PDF on iPhone
The Files app and Markup can't add a password to a PDF on an iPhone. File Acture's Protect PDF encrypts a PDF with AES-256 on the device: type a password twice, choose whether printing, copying and editing are allowed, and it saves a protected copy that asks for the password in any PDF reader.
How to Convert Photos to PDF on iPhone
To convert photos to a single PDF on an iPhone, you can use the Print gesture in the Photos app or a dedicated offline tool. File Acture lets you select multiple images from Photos or Files, reorder them, adjust margins and compression, and combine them into a clean PDF document on your device.
How to Scan Documents to PDF on iPhone
Your iPhone has a document scanner built into Notes and the Files app: it finds the page edges and straightens each page. File Acture's Scan Document uses the same camera, saves the pages straight to one PDF in the Files app at a size that is easy to email, and offers to make the text searchable, compress it or add a password right after.
Images
How to Convert HEIC to JPG on iPhone
To get JPG photos from an iPhone, set Settings › Camera › Formats to Most Compatible for new photos, or convert existing ones. File Acture's Convert Images turns HEIC photos picked from Photos or Files into JPG (or PNG, WebP) in one batch on the iPhone, with the quality you choose and the location removed unless you keep it.
How to Reduce Photo Size on iPhone
The iPhone can shrink photos only to fixed sizes: Mail offers Small, Medium and Large when you send them. File Acture's Compress Images brings each photo under a size you type, such as 500 KB, by finding the highest quality that fits, and does a whole batch on the iPhone without uploading anything.
How to Remove Background from Photos on iPhone
To remove the background from a photo on iPhone, you can lift subjects in the Photos app or isolate them in batch with dedicated tools. File Acture's Remove Background cuts out people, pets, and products on-device, saving transparent PNGs or solid white backgrounds for marketplace listings without uploading images.
How to Extract Text from Images on iPhone
To extract text from images on an iPhone, you can select words with Live Text or run batch OCR directly on device. File Acture's Extract Text turns photos, document scans, and screenshots into organized TXT files and clipboard text in one run, without uploading images to cloud servers.