The PDF Tool I Wish I Found Sooner (And Why I will Continue to Us It!)

 

If you’ve ever had to merge PDFs for a class or work assignment, you probably already understand how big of struggle it can be. I’m sure many of you reading this have done the exact same thing I have, googled “merge PDF,” click the first result and upload your files think, wow that was easy! That is until you go to access the document and the service hits you with a “Subscribe to download” or “Access your document for just $9.99.” So frustrating!

I cannot count how many times I’ve needed a simple tool like the pdf merger offered by tinywow.com and ended up trying multiple half-working websites that either watermark your file, limit your downloads, or hold your document hostage until you pay their fee.

The tool suite in TinyWow might just have solved this frustration for me! You too can access the introduction to this tool through our OLP4407 class eBook. The specific section in the eBook is chapter 17 by Weylin Richards, which introduces the tool and its many options.

LINK:
Designing Better Learning in a Digital Landscape

 

What is the Tool?

The TinyWow PDF Tools page is basically a free collection of pdf tools. You could call it the PDF carpenters' belt of tools.

Some of the most useful tools include:

• Merge multiple PDFs into one file
• Convert PDFs to Word, JPG, Excel, or PowerPoint
• Compress large files for easier sharing
• Edit or rearrange pages
• Extract items from documents

My Experience & Example of Usage

I ended up using this tool when I needed to merge some paystubs that I had exported as individual PDFs. I uploaded all the paystubs, clicked merge, and ta-da, none of the previous frustrations that I had previously had to deal with. I had an organized PDF ready for use.

 

How It Supports Learning

This tool could help out a lot in the education field:

• You can organize information
• Merge or split a document
• A student could convert and edit materials to match up with a tool they prefer to
• No more fighting formatting issues of having one word doc, one pdf, etc…