If you've scanned a document with your scanner or phone and have the image as a JPG file, it's often useful to convert that image to a PDF. Using Adobe Acrobat, you can even automatically process text ...

Q: I use an HP Envy Photo 6255 printer with my new Apple iMac desktop. When I scan a plain black and white document and save it to my desktop via the printer, it always comes over in a photo format.

It's a common need to want to save and export a Microsoft Word document as a different file type. Fortunately, you can use Microsoft Word to export documents in a variety of file types, including PDF.

OpenOffice is not a file converter, but you can use it to add a JPG to a document and then export that document as a PDF file. Although it can't open PDF files, OpenOffice can save valid PDF files ...