Guides & Tools
- Remove metadata from a PDF — Strip Author, Creator, Producer and other hidden fields from PDF documents before court filing or sending to opposing counsel. Free, local, no upload.
- Remove metadata from a Word document before filing — Strip author, company, revision number and tracked changes from DOCX files before court filing. Runs locally in your browser — nothing uploads.
- Strip hidden data from Word documents — Find and strip hidden data in Word documents: author name, company, tracked changes, comments. PrepFile reports what it finds and cleans the file locally.
- Scrubbing metadata before sending documents to opposing counsel — Practical guide to removing metadata from PDFs and Word documents before production or disclosure. Free local tool included.
- Split a PDF by its bookmarks — Split a PDF into separate files by its bookmark tree: one PDF per top-level bookmark, named by section title. Free, in-browser, no upload.
- Split a PDF into multiple files — Split a single PDF into multiple separate files — one per bookmark section or one per page range you define. Local, no upload, outputs a ZIP.
- Extract pages from a PDF — Extract specific pages or page ranges from a PDF: get exactly the pages you need as a standalone file. Local processing, no upload required.
- Why courts reject PDF filings — Common technical reasons courts reject PDF filings: not text-searchable, wrong page size, unflattened form fields, too large, encrypted. How to fix each.
- Flatten PDF form fields before filing — How to flatten PDF form fields before e-filing. PrepFile checks whether form fields are present; here is how to flatten them for court submission.
- Make a scanned PDF text-searchable for court — How to make a scanned PDF text-searchable before e-filing. PrepFile checks searchability; here is how to run OCR to fix it.
- PDF technical requirements for court e-filing — Common PDF technical requirements for court e-filing: format, page size, searchability, file size, encryption, form fields. Advisory guide with a local checker tool.
- PDF requirements for CM/ECF federal court e-filing — CM/ECF PDF filing requirements: file size, text-searchable, page size, no encryption, form fields. Advisory checklist for federal e-filing.
- NYSCEF PDF filing requirements — PDF format requirements for NYSCEF (New York State Courts Electronic Filing): file size, searchability, page size, encryption. Advisory pre-flight guide.
- eFileTexas PDF format requirements — PDF requirements for eFileTexas (Tyler Technologies): file size, text-searchable, page size. Advisory guide and local pre-flight checker.
- California court e-filing PDF requirements — PDF format requirements for California courts (CMS platforms, CCC, eCourt): file size, text-searchable, page size. Advisory pre-flight guide.