Powerful PDF Automation Made Simple

pdfAssistant is your intelligent partner for all things documents. It's a cutting-edge service that transforms how you interact with PDFs and other file formats. No more clicking through menus or learning complex software! Just chat with your friendly AI Assistant using simple, natural language commands. Effortlessly create, update, optimize, and process your documents—whether you're merging, compressing, converting, or much more. With pdfAssistant, getting your document work done is as easy as a conversation.

pdfAssistant is built for anyone who works with documents—anywhere, at any scale. Whether you’re:

• An individual managing personal files
• A student or educator organizing assignments
• A small business handling contracts and invoices
• An enterprise processing thousands of documents daily

pdfAssistant adapts to your needs. It’s trusted by global professionals in legal, healthcare, finance, education, HR, logistics, government, and more. If you want to save time, reduce errors, and simplify your document workflows, pdfAssistant is for you.

pdfAssistant stands alone in three key ways:

• AI-Powered Document Processing from Natural Language:
  Unlike traditional PDF tools that require navigating complex menus, pdfAssistant lets you describe what you want in plain language. The AI understands your intent and executes powerful document processing steps—merging, converting, compressing, securing, and more.

• Beyond “Chat with Your PDF”:
  Most AI PDF services only let you ask questions about your document’s content. pdfAssistant does that—and so much more. Not only can you chat with your PDF to extract insights, summaries, or translations, but you can also instruct the AI to take real action: split, merge, redact, convert, add watermarks, and automate entire workflows.

• Multi-Format Content Creation:
  Generic AI chatbots can answer questions, but pdfAssistant can take the results of your conversation and instantly generate professional documents in PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more. You get both the intelligence of AI and the power of advanced document creation and processing—all in one place.

We are always adding new features! Here’s what’s currently available:

• Add Attachments: Add external files as attachments to your PDFs.
• Add Images: Seamlessly add images to your PDFs.
• Add PDF Encryption: Enhance document security with password protection and encryption options.
• Add Watermarks to PDFs: Apply text, image, or another PDF as a watermark, with full customization.
• Apply OCR to PDFs: Convert scanned documents and images within PDFs into searchable and editable text.
• Check if a PDF Contains Extractable Text: Quickly ascertain if a PDF's text content can be extracted.
• Check if a PDF is Tagged for Accessibility: Determine if your PDF is properly tagged for accessibility compliance.
• Check PDF Security Settings: Verify the security configurations of your PDF documents.
• Check the Origin of a PDF File: Investigate the source or creator of a PDF document.
• Chat with PDF: Use AI to interact with your documents, including summarizing, extracting answers, and translating content.
• Compress PDFs: Reduce PDF file sizes with various compression levels.
• Convert Files to PDF: Transform Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, HTML, and more into PDFs.
• Convert PDF Colors: Adjust the color profile of your PDFs for display or print.
• Convert PDFs to Excel: Convert PDFs into editable Excel spreadsheets.
• Convert PDFs to Images: Convert PDF pages into BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, or TIFF.
• Convert PDFs to PowerPoint: Convert PDFs into editable PowerPoint presentations.
• Convert PDFs to Word: Convert PDFs into editable Microsoft Word files.
• Convert to PDF/A: Ensure long-term archiving and preservation by converting to PDF/A formats.
• Convert to PDF/X: Prepare your PDFs for prepress printing workflows with conversion to PDF/X.
• Export Form Data: Export data from PDF forms for use elsewhere.
• Extract PDF Text: Easily extract all text content from PDFs for search and analysis.
• Find Author, Title, and Subject: Quickly retrieve essential metadata from your PDFs.
• Flatten PDF Forms: Lock in field values and ensure compatibility.
• Flatten Transparencies and Layers: Ensure consistent printing and viewing by flattening complex content.
• Generate Content: Create new PDFs or other document types from scratch using AI.
• Import Form Data: Import data into PDF forms for streamlined processing.
• Merge PDFs: Consolidate several PDFs into a single document.
• Query Metadata: Gain valuable insights into your PDFs by querying their metadata.
• Rasterize PDFs: Convert PDF pages into high-resolution raster images.
• Remove PDF Encryption: Remove password protection when it's no longer needed.
• Split PDFs: Divide a PDF into multiple documents based on specified page ranges.

Chat is your intuitive, conversational interface for immediate, one-off document tasks. Simply describe what you need in natural language, and your AI Assistant will handle the entire process and deliver quick, reliable results. You can ask it to perform a wide range of PDF actions—like converting a file, compressing an image, or summarizing content—and even gain valuable insights from your documents, all in real time. It's designed for quick solutions and ad-hoc processing whenever you need it.

Workflows are your automation superpower. In the Workflows tab, you can create, customize, and save multi-step document processes—like “convert, watermark, compress, then encrypt”—as reusable workflows. Build a workflow once by simply chatting with the AI, then apply it to any document or batch of documents whenever you need. This ensures consistency, saves massive amounts of time, and eliminates repetitive manual work for recurring tasks.

Batch Processing is designed for maximum efficiency with high volumes of documents. In the Batch Processing tab, you can upload entire folders or collections of files and apply your saved workflows to all of them at once. Whether you’re converting, compressing, extracting, or securing documents, Batch Processing lets you handle hundreds or thousands of files in minutes—transforming complex, large-scale operations into a simple, streamlined experience.

Getting started is easy and risk-free:

1. Sign up with your email or Google account.
2. Instantly receive 200 Monthly Credits on the Starter plan—free forever, with no credit card required.
3. Explore the Chat, Workflows, and Batch Processing tabs and experience the power of pdfAssistant right away.

Need more Credits? You can purchase Extra Credits at any time or upgrade to a paid plan for even more features and higher monthly limits.

Your privacy and data security are our highest priorities.

• All files are processed using industry-standard encryption.
• Files and chats are never used to train AI models.
• Documents are temporarily stored on secure pdfRest servers and are permanently deleted after 24 hours.
• We are currently undergoing a SOC 2 Type 2 audit, with expected completion in Q4 2025, to further validate our commitment to enterprise-grade security and compliance.

No. Your files, chats, and any data you provide are never used for AI training or shared with third parties. We partner with OpenAI through their API, and as stated in their privacy policy, they do not train models on data used through their API.

Absolutely! With Workflows and Batch Processing, pdfAssistant is built for scale. Whether you’re processing a handful of files or thousands, you’ll get consistent, reliable results—faster and easier than ever before.

pdfAssistant offers powerful plugins and integrations to extend its advanced PDF solutions into third-party applications, including:

• Save as Custom Image in Adobe Express: Export your projects as JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, or TIFF, with precise control over pages, resolution, color model, and quality.
• Save as PDF/X in Adobe Express: Export your designs as press-ready PDF/X files.
• Save as PDF/A in Adobe Express: Export your projects as PDF/A for archival and compliance.

More integrations are coming soon for platforms like Canva and Figma.