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Advanced Tools

Advanced tools for automation workflows and complex PDF operations.


Automation Tools

Automate (Pipeline)

Tool ID: automate

Chain multiple operations into automated workflows. Save and reuse pipeline configurations, process files automatically with predefined steps, and set up folder watching for automatic processing.

Read the complete Pipeline Automation Guide →


Auto Rename

Tool ID: autoRename

Automatically rename PDF files based on their content. Analyzes each PDF and suggests filenames using this priority:

  1. PDF metadata title (if present)
  2. Largest font text on first page
  3. First heading or prominent text
  4. First line of readable text

Works best with documents that have clear titles. Scanned documents may need OCR first.


Formatting Tools

Adjust Contrast

Tool ID: adjustContrast

Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation of PDF content. Useful for improving readability of faded scans or creating high-contrast versions.


Repair

Tool ID: repair

Attempt to repair corrupted or damaged PDF files. Can fix broken cross-reference tables, corrupted object streams, missing headers, and encoding errors.

Cannot recover physically deleted data. Success depends on extent of corruption.


Scanner Image Split

Tool ID: scannerImageSplit

Automatically detect and split individual scanned photos from multi-image PDF scans. Useful for batch-scanned photo collections.


Overlay PDFs

Tool ID: overlayPdfs

Layer one PDF on top of another. Control position, opacity, and whether the overlay appears in the foreground or background. Apply to specific pages or all pages.


Replace Color

Tool ID: replaceColor

Replace specific colors in a PDF or invert all colors. Options include full color inversion, targeted color replacement, and adjustable matching threshold.


Add Image

Tool ID: addImage

Insert images into PDF pages with precise positioning and sizing. Supports common image formats.


Scanner Effect

Tool ID: scannerEffect

Apply realistic scanner-like effects to digital PDFs - slight rotation/skew and scan artifacts to make documents appear physically scanned.


Developer Tools

Show JavaScript

Tool ID: showJS

Display any embedded JavaScript code within a PDF document. Useful for security auditing and understanding PDF form logic.