JPG, PNG or WEBP: picking the right image format in 2026

Photographs go to JPG or WEBP, anything with transparency or hard-edged text goes to PNG or WEBP, and anything an Indian portal or a print …

Why your PDF is 18 MB, and how to get it under the portal's limit

An 18 MB PDF is almost always a scan stored as full-colour images. Here is what actually takes up the space, what compression can and canno…

Merging, splitting and reordering PDFs without handing over your documents

A loan file or KYC set is the most complete identity kit you will ever assemble. Here is why it should not go to a random converter, how br…

Getting text and tables out of a PDF: what works, what needs OCR

A digital PDF gives up its text exactly; a scan gives up nothing. Learn to tell them apart in five seconds, extract tables to Excel, run th…

Five Python jobs that save a small business a day a week

Five automations you can build in an afternoon each: merging daily sales exports, emailing a PDF summary, filing scanned invoices, watching…

OCR on Indian documents: what Tesseract gets right and where it fails

Tesseract reads a clean 300 DPI printed invoice almost perfectly, handles Devanagari headings reasonably, loses tables, and cannot read han…

A realistic learning path into data science, from someone doing the job

A month-by-month sequence from Python to one deployed project, how much maths you actually need, why SQL decides Indian analytics interview…

How a file converter can run entirely in your browser

WebAssembly, the File API, canvas, Web Workers and object URLs, explained without hand-waving — plus a thirty-second test you can run yours…

A GST invoice workflow for a small shop, without paid software

A sheet, a handful of validation rules, and free browser tools will carry a shop doing under 100 invoices a month. Here is the exact chain,…