Welcome to PDF Automation Server

PDF Automation Server – PDF Processing Server

PDF Automation Server is a modular server product that provides a rich set of PDF processing functions for different environments. Use PAS as an essential tool to streamline your PDF processing, document workflows and web service orchestration in your organization.

Workflow Module

Automate your business and document workflows with an easy to use graphical interface. Design and build complex automation flowcharts that easily integrates into 3rd party services.

REST API Module

PDF Automation Server provides a complete set of PDF processing and conversion functions in a robust REST server environment that can easily integrate into your existing document workflows and work with 3rd party integration and orchestration products.

HTML PDF Markup Module

PDF Automation Server provides a module to enable markup of PDF documents in the browser. PAS can convert documents to HTML on-the-fly and can serve them to an HTML/Javascript module in the browser that allows end users to navigate and add and edit annotations on the PDF. On save, markups are sent back to the server to merge back into the PDF document.

Integration with Workflow Modules and ESB Servers

All workflow servers can easily integrated with PDF Automation Server through its REST API module. Most enterprise software provide modules to handle workflows, with PAS you can add PDF functionality to your document processes. Additionally, there are a number of software products, such as ESB and BPM servers whose sole function is to run workflows. These servers can make calles to 3rd party systems through REST APIs, including making calls to our PDF Automation Server.

Mule ESB Integration Samples

Proven Robust PDF Technology

PAS is built using Qoppa’s industry leading PDF technology, developed over more than 10 years and used by thousands of customers worldwide. Qoppa’s PDF technology is mature, robust, a leader in performance, and requires no third party software. PAS is a multi-platform product, it can be deployed on Windows, Linux, Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, etc), z/OS, Mac OS X and others.

PAS Features

Powerful, Easy - Our goal is to simplify PDF for you. PDF Automation Server (PAS) is a server product which is powerful, easy to set up and affordable. It doesn’t require any programming and can be up and running in a few minutes only.
PDF Processing - PAS provides a large number of PDF processing functions to manipulate PDF documents.
Reliability - PAS has been produced and tested with the utmost care so that uptime is maximized and your documents are always processed reliably. Intelligent error handling and recovery is done at multiple levels in the software so that the server can recover from transient error conditions. Additionally, different processes are independent, so errors in one process will not affect other processes.
Multiple Sources - PAS can receive documents from multiple sources concurrently. Documents from different sources can be handled in the same manner or unique processes can be defined for individual sources.
Multiple Destinations - After processing documents, PAS can deliver the documents to multiple destinations. Each process in the server can send the resulting document to multiple destinations and different processes can send output to unique destinations.
Event Logging - PAS keeps a complete log of events in the server, including informational, warning and error events. With the event log, users can track document processing and pinpoint causes of problems.
Notification - PAS can send notification emails based on a number of criteria, including error conditions as well as successful processing of documents.
Platform Independence - PAS is platform independent and can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and several Unix flavors.

PDF Processing Functions

Convert from other formats to PDF (from images, Microsoft Word & Excel, text files)
Convert PDF to other formats (to images, HTML/SVG, text files)
Convert PDF to PDF/A for archival storage
Convert PDF documents to HTML5 and serve directly to browsers
Preflight documents to check compliance against various profiles
Document security and encryption RC4 or AES encryption, set passwords and permissions
Redact PDF documents to remove confidential information
Sign PDF documents and create new signature fields
Apply and verify digital signatures
Import, export, flatten and fill interactive form data
Import, export, flatten annotation data
Automated printing of PDF documents
Optimize PDF files reducing PDF file size by compressing images and streams and removing unused objects.
Extract text content
Apply OCR text recognition to recognize and add searchable text to PDF documents.
Linearize PDF documents for fast web viewing
Assemble/Merge/Split documents with ease
Set Crop, Trim, Bleed and Art Box margins for PDF documents.
Move, transfer or route files of all types, even when PDF specific process is not required.
Stamp documents with watermarks, page headers and footers, images or any other text content. Text can be formatted and can include variables such as current date and time, file names, page numbers and others.

Release notes

For documentation updates and release notes, refer to our knowledge base here (PDF Automation Server change log)

Download PDF Guide

User Guide - PDF