The Workshop
An inventor's room, borrowed. Bind and cleave documents, recast pictures, rewrite tables, cut sound, measure prose.
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Golian spent much of his life converting affection into engineering. This room is kept in that spirit: things taken apart, understood, and handed back in better order than they arrived.
PDF The Binding Bench Where documents are bound, cleaved and set back in order.
- Bind Pages Merge PDFs Join several PDFs into one, in the order you choose.
- Cleave Split a PDF Break a document into pieces, by page ranges or one file per page.
- Reorder the Leaves Rotate, delete, reorder Turn pages the right way up, drop the ones you do not want, and set the order.
- Cast to Plates PDF → images Render every page as a picture. Choose the resolution.
- Bind Plates Images → PDF Gather pictures into a single document, one per page.
- Read the Ink Extract text Pull the words out of a PDF as plain text.
- Press Thin Compress a PDF Shrink a heavy document by re-rendering its pages. Best on scans and image-heavy files.
Images The Lens Bench Where pictures are recast into other shapes, formats and weights.
Data The Ledger Bench Where tables and records are rewritten from one script into another.
- Transcribe CSV ↔ JSON Turn a spreadsheet export into JSON, or JSON back into CSV.
- Rebind the Ledger CSV ↔ XLSX Move between plain CSV and Excel workbooks.
- Set in Order Format JSON Indent JSON so a person can read it, or minify it for a machine.
- Sift Clean a CSV Trim stray spaces, drop empty rows and exact duplicates, tidy the headers.
Writing The Scribe’s Bench Small instruments for anyone working in words.
- Scribe’s Polish Clean a manuscript Straighten quotes, replace em dashes and semicolons, collapse double spaces. Built from the tidy-up done on this site’s own stories.
- Bind a Book Text → EPUB Turn text files into an EPUB a Kindle, Kobo or phone can read. One file becomes one chapter, in the order you set.
- Take the Measure Word count & reading time Words, characters, paragraphs, reading time and the longest sentences.
Media & Archives The Great Forge The hot end of the room: sound, moving pictures, and bundles.
- Bundle Compress to ZIP Pack any number of files into a single archive.
- Unbind Extract a ZIP Open an archive and take the files out.
- Draw the Voice Video → MP3 Lift the sound out of a video and keep it as an MP3.
- Retune Audio converter Move audio into MP3, or into WAV when you need it uncompressed.
- Cut to Length Trim audio Keep only the stretch you want. Works on audio, or on the soundtrack of a video.
- Still the Motion Video → GIF Turn a stretch of video into a looping image.