Welcome to PDF Automation Server v2016R2

PDF Automation Server (PAS) is a unique product  that doesn’t require any programming and can automate the receiving, processing and routing of PDF documents in your organization.

PAS can receive documents in various formats from multiple sources concurrently, including email, ftp servers and local or network folders. Processes can then be defined independently for each document source to perform a number of functions on the documents, including conversion, data merging, assembly, encryption, printing, preflighting and more. After processing the documents, PAS can route the original and modified documents to multiple destinations, including folders, printers, email and ftp servers.

PAS Features

• Reliability: PDF Automation Server 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. PDF Automation Server 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, PDF Automation Server 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. PDF Automation Server 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. PDF Automation Server 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

• Printing. PAS can automatically print incoming PDF documents to single or multiple printers before or after processing the document.
• Set and Clear Security. PAS can encrypt and set passwords and permissions on PDF documents.
• Assembling / Merging / Splitting . PAS can perform some assembly operations on PDF documents such as splitting documents into multiple ones or merging multiple documents in one.
• Splitting. PAS can split documents by page count, page range, bookmarks, blank page, text content.
• Cropping Pages. PAS can set the Crop, Trim, Bleed and Art Box margins for PDF documents.
• Conversion to Images. PAS can convert PDF documents into images.
• Conversion to PDF/A. PAS can convert PDF documents to the PDF/A sub-format for archiving.
• MS Word Conversion. PAS can convert Microsoft® Word documents to PDF and to images.
• Form Fields Data Extraction. PAS can extract data from interactive PDF forms and output the data in a variety of formats.
• Form Fields Data Merging. PAS can import data in a variety of formats into interactive PDF forms and then route the documents to any of the available destinations.
• Import/Export of Annotations. PAS can import annotations into PDF documents as well as export annotations from PDF documents.
• Text Extraction. PAS can extract text content from documents for storage.
• Flattening Fields and Annotations. PAS can "flatten" form fields and annotations in PDF documents. Flattening is the act of making the form fields or annotations part of the PDF content so that they become non-editable.
• Digital Signatures. PAS can apply digital signatures to PDF documents to certify the content.
• OCR. PAS can recognize and add searchable text to PDF documents.
• Optimizing. PAS can reduce PDF file size by compressing images and streams and removing unused objects.
• Preflighting. PAS can automatically check preflight compliance of PDF documents.
• Conversion to PDF/A. PAS can convert PDFs to the PDF/A sub-format for archiving.
• Moving Files. PAS can also move, transfer or route files of all types, even when PDF specific process is not required.
• Stamping. PAS can 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)