Guides

Practical notes on handling PDFs and SQL without sending your files to somebody else's server.

PDF

How to merge PDF files without uploading them

Combining PDFs is one of the few things you can do entirely offline in a browser. Here is how it works and when to be careful about the order of pages.

PDF

Convert PDF to JPG without sending your file anywhere

When you need images instead of a PDF — slides, thumbnails, a scanned page for a form — and why resolution matters more than most people think.

PDF

Compress a PDF without uploading it

Why PDFs get big, what actually shrinks them, and the honest trade-off when the compression happens in your own browser.

SQL

From CREATE TABLE to a clear ER diagram

Reading a schema out of raw DDL, checking the relationships, and getting a diagram you can drop into documentation.