Your Personal PDF Assistant

pdfAssistant is a powerful AI chatbot, available 24/7 to perform all of your PDF processing tasks. Convert, watermark, merge, and more — whatever you need, all you have to do is ask.

Work Smarter, Not Harder

PDF software is complex, and processing documents by hand is tedious.
pdfAssistant lets you skip the learning curve and offload the work for simple, streamlined results.

Intuitive Chat-Based Interface


Forget frustrating menus and toolbars!
Eliminate the learning curve, just ask for what you need:
  • "Extract pages 5-10"
  • "Convert this to a Word doc"
  • "Merge these 3 files"

Robust PDF Processing


Tackle all of your PDF processing tasks with a wide range of capabilities, including:
  • Convert to/from PDF
  • Compress
  • Merge / Split
  • Watermark
  • Add Passwords / Restrictions
  • Extract Text / Metadata
  • So much more!

Quality Technology, Reliable Results


Powered by industry-leading PDF and AI technology:
  • pdfRest — full-featured and secure PDF cloud processing
  • Adobe PDF Library — trusted engine powering Adobe Acrobat
  • OpenAI — supports intuitive natural language conversations

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Frequently Asked Questions

pdfAssistant is a revolutionary service that lets you generate and process digital documents, including PDFs and many other file formats, using simple, natural language commands. No more clicking through menus or learning complex software! Just chat with our friendly AI assistant to create, update, and optimize your documents or perform a broad range of processing tasks, like merging documents, compressing files, converting between file formats, and more.

Absolutely! We designed pdfAssistant for anyone that needs to create, edit, or otherwise work with digital documents in any capacity, regardless of technical expertise. Whether you're a busy professional, a student juggling assignments, or someone simply managing personal documents, pdfAssistant makes it easy and efficient to generate, modify, and optimize your PDFs and many other file formats.

Effortless PDF Processing with Natural Language:

  • Unlike complex PDF tools with menus and toolbars, pdfAssistant utilizes a conversational approach. Simply tell your AI assistant what you need in plain language, and it takes care of the rest.
  • No more deciphering cryptic options or wasting time navigating menus. pdfAssistant.ai understands your intent and executes your desired PDF actions with ease.

AI-powered Content Creation and Delivery:

  • While other AI assistants focus on generating information, pdfAssistant.ai goes a step further. It leverages the power of AI to not only create content, but also deliver it in the format you need - PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and more.
  • Imagine instructing your assistant to "create a report summarizing sales data for the past quarter," and having a professional, formatted PDF appear instantly, ready for sharing or further editing.

Unmatched Document Processing Power:

  • Forget limited PDF assistants that focus solely on information extraction. pdfAssistant.ai unlocks the full potential of the pdfRest toolkit, offering a comprehensive suite of document processing features.
  • Need to convert a Word doc to a PDF, merge multiple documents, or even add watermarks and encryption? pdfAssistant empowers you to do it all with simple instructions, transforming you into a document processing pro.

In short, pdfAssistant bridges the gap between AI assistants and traditional PDF tools, offering an intuitive, efficient, and powerful way to create, edit, and manage your documents.

We continuously roll out new capabilities, but here's what's currently available:
  • Content Generation: Generate PDFs or other document types from scratch using supplied content or information retrieved from pdfAssistant's vast knowledge base.
  • Image & File Attachment: Seamlessly add images and attach files directly to your PDFs.
  • Form Management: Flatten forms to lock in field values and ensure compatibility, or import and export form data for streamlined processing.
  • Convert to PDF/A: Ensure long-term archiving and preservation of your electronic documents by converting them to PDF/A formats.
  • Convert to PDF/X: Prepare your PDFs for prepress printing workflows with conversion to compatible PDF/X formats.
  • Add and Remove PDF Restrictions: Control user access by adding or removing restrictions on printing, copying, editing, and more.
  • Add and Remove PDF Encryption: Enhance document security with password protection and encryption options.
  • Extract PDF Text: Easily extract all text content from PDFs for search and analysis within the extracted text.
  • Query Metadata and Conditional Information: Gain valuable insights into your PDFs by querying their metadata and using conditional information for automated workflows.
  • Watermarking PDFs: The assistant can apply text, image, or another PDF as a watermark to a document. Users have the flexibility to customize the watermark's color, font, size, opacity, and position to fit their needs.
  • Splitting PDFs: For those needing to divide a PDF into smaller sections, the assistant offers the functionality to split a PDF into multiple documents based on specified page ranges.
  • Converting Files to PDF: The assistant can transform a wide variety of file types into PDFs. This encompasses Microsoft Office documents, images, HTML pages, and more, ensuring versatility in document conversion.
  • Merging PDFs: If users have several PDFs that they wish to consolidate into a single document, the assistant provides the necessary tools to merge them efficiently.
  • Converting PDFs to Office Formats: It also offers the capability to convert PDFs into editable Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents, facilitating easy edits and adjustments.
  • Converting PDFs to Images: For instances where a PDF page is needed in image form, the assistant can convert PDFs to BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, or TIFF formats, catering to various image requirements.
  • Compressing PDFs: To address the issue of large PDF file sizes, the assistant can compress PDFs to reduce their file size, offering various levels of compression to balance between fidelity and size reduction.
  • Uploading Files: It is equipped to upload files, making it easy to start working with documents. This includes the capability to fetch files from URLs directly.
  • Creating Zip Files: The assistant can bundle multiple files into a single, convenient Zip file, simplifying file management and sharing.
We take your data seriously! pdfAssistant and pdfRest utilize industry-standard security protocols to protect your documents and information. We never store your files permanently, and all communication is encrypted.

Your documents are temporarily stored on our pdfRest servers for your convenience while processing takes place, and they are permanently deleted after 24 hours for your security. All document processing is done by pdfRest, which adheres to a robust Data Processing Agreement, and files are not shared with OpenAI. Only metadata, such as file names and file sizes, are are presented to the AI so that it knows how to direct pdfRest to process your files.
Your privacy is our top priority. Your data and the contents of your chats with pdfAssistant will not be used to train any AI models. 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. You can find their privacy statement here: Enterprise privacy at OpenAI

We believe everyone should have access to robust document processing tools. That's why we offer a free trial and a convenient pay-as-you-go credit system. Add your first 250 credits to your account for a discounted price of $1.99. Check out the Pricing page for more info.

Getting started with pdfAssistant is easy. Sign Up with your email address or Google login to create your account. This grants you immediate access to explore the service, complete with free starter credits to test your processing solutions.

Need more credits? No problem! You can top up your balance any time - just $1.99 for your first 250 credits.

Our friendly, human-powered support team is always happy to help! Send us a message through our Support Portal, or feel free to contact us at info@pdfassistant.ai, and we'll be glad to assist you.