Workflow Builder

Automate your PDF processing by chaining multiple operations into a single reusable pipeline. Upload once, process everything — no manual steps, no intermediate files.

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How It Works

The Workflow Builder lets you visually chain PDF operations together. Each step takes the output of the previous step as its input, forming an automated processing pipeline. Define it once, then run it any time with new files.

Upload Files
Merge PDFs
Add Watermark
Compress
Download

Key Features

Visual Editor

Click or drag operations to build workflows. Steps auto-connect into a pipeline — insert between existing steps by dropping onto a connection line.

Reusable Pipelines

Save workflows and run them repeatedly with different input files. Start from pre-built templates or import shared workflows from JSON files.

Configurable Parameters

Click any step to open the Properties panel. Configure compression levels, page ranges, watermark text, rotation angles, PDF/A conformance, passwords, and more.

Automated Processing

No manual downloads between steps. The system passes files through the pipeline automatically, saving time and eliminating errors.

Export & Import

Export workflows as JSON files to share with colleagues, back up your library, or migrate between environments. Import with a single click.

Right-Click Menus

Right-click any step to move it up or down, or delete it with automatic pipeline reconnection. Right-click a connection to insert a step or remove it.

Execution History

Track every workflow run with timestamps, status, and downloadable output files. Review past results any time.

Templates

Start from pre-built templates for common tasks like archival, report building, document security, and OCR text extraction.

Available Operations

Build your pipeline from over 30 PDF operations across six categories:

Conversion

PDF to Word, Excel, Images, PDF/A and more

Page Management

Merge, split, extract, rotate, remove pages

Editing

Watermarks, page numbers, metadata, redaction

Security

Password protection, encryption, digital signing

Optimisation

Compression, repair, OCR, linearisation

Extraction & Analysis

Extract text, images, embedded files, metadata

Example Use Cases

  • Monthly Report Builder — Convert Word and Excel files to PDF, merge them into a single report, add page numbers and a company watermark, then compress for email.
  • Archive Preparation — Convert incoming documents to PDF/A for long-term archiving, add metadata, and linearise for fast web viewing.
  • Scanned Document Processing — Run OCR on scanned PDFs, extract the text, and compress the output for storage.
  • Secure Distribution — Merge documents, add a confidential watermark, password-protect the result, and compress it for secure sharing.
  • Invoice Processing — Extract pages from multi-page invoices, add Bates numbering, and split into individual files per invoice.

Ready to automate your PDF workflows?

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