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Plain-language how-tos for the free tools on Dharmdutt.com — shrinking images and PDFs for forms, converting videos, understanding loans and GST, and finding the right legal section.
Everything you can do on Dharmdutt.com: a guide to the free tools
A tour of the free tools on Dharmdutt.com: legal drafting for Indian courts, PDF and image tools, video converters and more than twenty calculators.
About the siteAre online file converters safe? How in-browser tools keep your files private
Most online converters upload your file to a server. Here is how in-browser tools work instead, what they can and cannot promise, and how to check for yourself.
Images & PDFHow to reduce an image to 50 KB (or 20, 100, 200 KB) for online forms
Exam, job and government forms often cap photo size in KB. Learn how image size works and how to hit an exact limit without making the picture look bad.
Images & PDFHow to reduce PDF file size for email and online uploads
A PDF too big to email or upload? Why it happens, what actually shrinks it, and how to get under a size limit while keeping the document readable.
Images & PDFHow to merge, split and reorder PDF pages without installing anything
Combine several PDFs into one, pull out a range of pages, reorder or delete pages, and number them. A practical guide to the PDF page tools.
Images & PDFHEIC to JPG: how to open iPhone photos on Windows and upload them anywhere
iPhone photos save as HEIC, which many websites and Windows apps reject. What HEIC is, how to convert it, and how to make your iPhone shoot JPG instead.
Images & PDFHow to make passport size photos at home: sizes, background and printing
The common passport and ID photo sizes, what a good photo looks like, and how to prepare an exact-size photo and a print sheet from a picture you took yourself.
VideoHow to convert MKV, AVI, MOV and other videos to MP4
Why some videos will not play on your phone or TV, the difference between changing the container and re-encoding, and how to convert to MP4 in your browser.
Legal & CourtsIPC to BNS: how to find the new section number for an old IPC section
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita replaced the IPC on 1 July 2024. What changed, which law applies to which case, and how to look up the matching section quickly.
Legal & CourtsSection 138 cheque bounce: the time limits explained step by step
From the date on the cheque to the last day to file a complaint: a plain-language walk through the Section 138 Negotiable Instruments Act timeline.
Money & CalculatorsHow loan EMI is calculated, and 5 ways to pay less interest
The EMI formula in plain language with a worked example, why the first years are mostly interest, and what prepaying or shortening a loan really saves.
Money & CalculatorsSIP, RD, PPF and FD compared: how each one grows your money
Four popular ways to save in India, how the maths of each works, and worked examples you can reproduce with the calculators. No predictions, just arithmetic.
Money & CalculatorsHow to calculate GST: adding it, removing it and avoiding the common mistake
Add GST to a price, take it out of a GST-inclusive amount, and split it into CGST and SGST. Clear examples and the one mistake almost everyone makes.