Automatically clean and prep PDF files for AI review

Splits, merges, and extracts tables or text from PDF files automatically so documents are ready for AI or reports.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Simple Merge (5) · Transient Trigger (23)

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Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Document Processing & OCR
Connects
Adobe PDF Services

The problem it solves

You spend time manually splitting, merging, or cleaning PDF files before you can actually use the information inside them. Pulling a table out of a contract or report usually means retyping it by hand or fighting with formatting.

Who it fits

Operations, finance, or admin teams who regularly process PDF contracts, reports, or forms.

How it works

  1. A PDF file is submitted for a specific task, like splitting, merging, or extracting a table
  2. The file is uploaded and processed automatically
  3. Tables can be pulled out as images so an AI can read them more accurately than raw text
  4. The cleaned file or extracted data is returned automatically
What you get

PDFs split, merged, and ready to read

Your PDF contracts and reports get split, merged, or pulled apart into clean tables and text automatically.

What you get

A cleaned, split, merged, or reformatted PDF file, or extracted table data ready for AI review.

What you need

An Adobe Developer account with access to the Adobe PDF Services API.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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