Hall of Fame
No. 12 · Class of 2026

PDFBench

The Cabbage

For services to paperwork: has leafed through more documents than any other head of cabbage, and never uploaded a single one.

Every page in its place

The plaque

Stage name
The Cabbage
Instrument
Cabbage leaves fanned out like the pages of a document, the front one with a folded corner.
Day job
Merges PDFs, splits them and extracts pages, reorders, rotates and deletes pages, turns PDF into JPG, makes a PDF from images and removes metadata.
Signature move
Removing the hidden metadata from a file before it leaves your hands.
Plays with
PhotoBench (the same trick, for pictures), ScanBench (the same PDF libraries under the hood).
Debut
October 6, 2026, the first of four debuts that day
Inducted
October 18, 2026

Meet it at work: PDFBench

The original

The logo you see on the site, in colour.

PDFBench
  • Leaves fanned out like pages, from the first to the last.
  • The front leaf has a folded corner, as on a page that needs attention.
  • The veins on the leaves are lines of text.

On paper

The black-and-white version from the blog comics. Model sheet:

  1. calm
  2. delighted
  3. shocked
  4. sly

Biography

A cabbage is a stack of leaves, which is more or less what a PDF is. PDFBench fanned them out like the pages of a document, gave the front one a folded corner and drew veins on the leaves for lines of text.

It merges several PDFs into one, splits a file or pulls out the pages you need, reorders, rotates and deletes pages, and turns PDF into JPG or images into PDF. Your browser does the work, nothing is uploaded, and you can remove the metadata before you send the file on.

In the comics the cabbage is the quiet one of the back row: eyes shut, arms folded, listening to everyone else. For its induction it got a smile, so you can tell it is listening and not dozing.

Greatest hits

Where to catch it in the blog comics: