Your Personal PDF Assistant

pdfAssistant is a powerful AI Assistant, available 24/7 to automate all of your PDF processing tasks. Convert, compress, summarize, 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:
  • "Split this PDF into individual pages"
  • "Summarize the last 5 pages"
  • "Convert this to a Word doc"
  • "Convert this to PDF/X for print"
  • "Merge these 3 files"
  • "Which pages contain financial data?"
  • "Extract all the text from this PDF"
  • "Add a watermark that says 'Confidential'"
  • "Compress this PDF"
  • "Add a password to this PDF"
  • "Convert these images to PDFs"
  • "Restrict this PDF so it can't be printed"
  • "Translate all text to English"

Robust PDF Processing


Tackle all of your PDF processing tasks with a wide range of capabilities, including:
  • Add Text / Images / Attachments
  • Add Watermarks
  • Chat with PDF - Summarize / Get Answers
  • Compress File Sizes
  • Convert Between Many File Formats
  • Convert PDF Color Profiles
  • Create New Docs from AI-Generated Text
  • Extract Text / Metadata
  • Flatten PDF Forms
  • Import / Export Form Data
  • Merge / Split Files
  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
  • Secure PDFs with Password / Restrictions
  • Translate Document Text
  • Chat with PDF

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:
  • Add and Remove PDF Encryption: Enhance document security with password protection and encryption options.
  • Add and Remove PDF Restrictions: Control user access by adding or removing restrictions on printing, copying, editing, and more.
  • Add Text, Image, & File Attachments: Seamlessly place new text into existing PDFs, add images to PDFs, or attach external files.
  • Batch Process PDFs: Handle multiple PDF operations simultaneously, streamlining workflows for high-volume document processing.
  • Chat with PDF: Summarize all or part of documents, get targeted answers to questions from document text, or translate document language.
  • Compress 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.
  • 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.
  • Convert 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.
  • Convert PDF Colors: Adjust the color profile of your PDFs to suit different display or print requirements, ensuring accurate color reproduction.
  • Convert 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.
  • Convert PDFs to Office Formats: It also offers the capability to convert PDFs into editable Microsoft Word, convert PDFs to Excel spreadsheets, or convert PDFs to PowerPoint presentations, facilitating easy edits and adjustments.
  • Create Zip Files: The assistant can bundle multiple files into a single, convenient Zip file, simplifying file management and sharing.
  • Extract PDF Text: Easily extract all text content from PDFs for search and analysis within the extracted text.
  • Flatten Transparencies and Layers: Ensure consistent printing and viewing by flattening transparencies and layers within PDFs.
  • Generate Content: Generate PDFs or other document types from scratch using supplied content or information retrieved from pdfAssistant's vast knowledge base.
  • Manage Forms: Flatten forms to lock in field values and ensure compatibility, or import and export form data for streamlined processing.
  • Merge 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.
  • Apply OCR (Optical Character Recognition): Use OCR technology to convert scanned documents and images within PDFs into searchable and editable text.
  • Query Metadata and Conditional Information: Gain valuable insights into your PDFs by querying their metadata and using conditional information for automated workflows.
  • Split 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.
  • Upload 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.
  • Apply Watermarks to 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.
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 flexible pricing options to suit your needs:

Free Plan: Start with 50 free credits to explore all the capabilities of pdfAssistant. No credit card or commitment is required.

Pay-as-You-Go: Purchase 250 credits for $4.99. Your balance auto-reloads when it drops below 50 credits, ensuring uninterrupted access. There are no monthly fees—you pay only for what you use.

Monthly Plus: For $12.99/month, get 2,000 credits upfront and up to 200 credits replenished daily. This adds up to a maximum of 8,000 credits per month (2,000 initial credits + 200 credits/day for 30 days). Plus, get unlimited access to plugins and integrations with a fixed price and no hidden fees.

Plugin Pass: Access unlimited use of all pdfAssistant plugins and external integrations for Adobe Express and other third-party services. This plan does not include credits or access to the AI Assistant.

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.

pdfAssistant offers a collection of plugins and integrations that extend its advanced PDF solutions into third-party applications, enhancing both functionality and efficiency. By integrating with popular platforms like Adobe Express, pdfAssistant allows users to incorporate sophisticated PDF processing features into their existing workflows.

pdfAssistant currently offers two Add-Ons for Adobe Express that enable users to save their designs as PDF/X files for press-ready quality or as PDF/A files for archival and compliance. These integrations help maintain document integrity and accessibility across different applications.

Looking ahead, pdfAssistant plans to expand its offerings with additional add-ons for Adobe Express and develop plugins for other platforms such as Canva and Figma, further broadening its capabilities.
Our friendly, human-powered support team is always happy to help! Send us a message through our Support Portal, and we'll be glad to assist you.