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Fold a folder

When to use this

You have a folder of PDFs that all need the same finishing steps and do not want to open, export, and close them one at a time.

  1. Choose File → Fold a Folder….
  2. Pick the folder containing the PDFs.
  3. Choose one or more steps: make scanned pages searchable, add a watermark, or reduce file size.
  4. Start the fold and follow the per-file progress. You can cancel between files.

Orifold applies selected work in the order OCR → watermark → compress, then validates each PDF before saving it. One unreadable file is reported as one failure; it does not discard the successful files around it.

Results land in a new Folded subfolder beside the originals. Existing names are disambiguated case-insensitively, and Orifold never modifies the source PDFs. A later run skips that Folded subtree, so generated outputs are never folded again as new inputs.

Note

The batch uses the same local engines and structural postflight as the single-document tools. No PDF or recognized text is uploaded.

OCR scanned pages

Choose OCR policy and understand the quality receipt.

Compress a PDF

Tune compression for one document.

Stamps, watermarks & Bates

Place and configure a watermark interactively.