Improving document management through
advanced rendering
Webinar based on our session at
DIA RSIDM 2025
Automating advanced PDF manipulation.
Adjust your PDFs with no clicks.
Automates time-consuming manual PDF manipulation
Automatically add Bookmarks, split documents, remove empty sections.
Automate in-document Hyperlinking
Solution Overview
Features
Benefits
PDF Instruments Customer Stories
FAQ
Solution Overview
Remove the need for desktop tools to fix, manipulate and enrich your PDF files.
What does PDF Instruments do?
Do you spend hours on manually editing PDF files for compliance?
Does each small change in a PDF file take a lot of effort to fix?
Meet PDF Instruments: a robust, automated software for effortless PDF editing.
PDF Instruments improves existing PDFs: Adding bookmarks to non-bookmarked documents, in-document hyperlinking, removing sections or empty pages, splitting documents based on page size or numbers.
Extract Barcode data and visually display decoded values. Ensure the trustworthiness of a document with PDF certification.
Optimize, including for fast web viewing.
Conversion from PDF back to the original source format, such as MS Word, Excel, etc.
What do companies use PDF Instruments for?
To automate many manual, repetitive, desktop PDF editing and manipulation tasks.
To automate steps in document workflows, enhance content, optimize viewing/reviewing experience, and ensure document compliance.
Caters to a wide array of needs across various industries, making it a valuable tool for efficient PDF document management.
Features
- Automatically bookmark a PDF document that does not contain any bookmarks.
- Based on font size
- Font type
- Styling
- Do your Word documents contain empty pages, or empty sections?
- The solution automatically detects and removes any unwanted sections of text (e.g. guidance text).
- Automatically detect and create internal hyperlinks
- Convert from PDF into various Office formats
- Automatically split PDFs based on
- page size
- page count
- Allow barcode reading in PDF files
- Decode barcodes to obtain the text version
- Add the barcode text to the output file
- Apply certification to a PDF file.
- Ensure that the PDFs are generated by a trustworthy process/ system
- Optimize PDFs for
- fast web view
- other viewing options
Benefits
Save time by automating cumbersome PDF manipulation
Produce controlled and consistent PDFs
Reduce the risk of a refusal to file and strengthen technical compliance
Make changes on PDF files with as little effort as possible
Reduce the dependency on manual PDF manipulation tools
Turn unstructured documents into navigation-rich, text-readable PDFs
PDF Instruments Customer Stories
A global Pharmaceutical company…
…saves 100s of hours every month in PDF manipulation with PDF Instruments.
“Our PDFs are fully compliant with US FDA with just a single click. Correct bookmarks, font sizes, PDF settings.
Instead of using typical desktop PDF editing tools, we automated this process with DocShifter PDF Instruments.
And we have not looked back ever since!”
“Our PDFs are fully compliant with US FDA with just a single click. Correct bookmarks, font sizes, PDF settings.
Instead of using typical desktop PDF editing tools, we automated this process with DocShifter PDF Instruments.
And we have not looked back ever since!”
FAQ
Can PDF Instruments create bookmarks in the final PDF, even if my initial documents do not contain any bookmarks?
An authoring application is the software used to create the original documents. For example, MS Word is the authoring application used to create .docx files.
What does PDF manipulation mean?
Please refer to the file formats supported tab, or contact us for more details on specific formats.
What does the barcode reader feature do?
We make no promises, but our developers can do amazing things. Please contact us for more information on your conversion challenge.
Can we have a demo of PDF Instruments??
Absolutely. Our team is on hand to demo any of our DocShifter solutions. Simply contact us, and we’ll arrange a time that suits you.
What does content detector do?
Yes. Please refer to the OCR software page for more details. OCR capabilities can be added to the DS Any2Any+ software.
Does DocShifter software support optical character recognition (OCR)?
DocShifter allows for fully-automated OCR from any file format supported, which includes all image formats listed in a given RFP. The accuracy of results will depend on the quality of the image being processed via OCR, so the required 90% guarantee cannot be achieved without the quality of the content source also being guaranteed.
Have questions about PDFInstruments or PDF preparation automation?
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Designed to make your organization more productive, and your life easier
Set up DocShifter with a web browser
and a few simple clicks
Create your own document conversion workflows with the platform’s user-friendly drag & drop web interface. Configure each step to match your specific conversion needs, save your workflows and configurations – and you’re ready to go.
With its one-and-done setup, DocShifter can take on all of your frustratingly repetitive – yet necessary – document conversion tasks straight away, leaving your staff to focus on more pressing business activities.
The result? Trusted, compliant document and email conversion without the headache. Super fast and always on.
Discover why companies of all sizes trust us for document conversion
Fully automated
Convert any file type without the need for manual intervention. Simply set up and start converting.
Securely install anywhere
Because security and privacy matter, convert your documents on-premise or in your cloud. On Windows, Linux or Docker.
The best customer
service in the industry
With our support team guaranteeing two-hour response times, help is always at hand.
Superior conversion speed
Without the need for MS Office or Adobe, DocShifter converts documents 10x faster than comparable solutions.
Seamless integration
Effortlessly integrate all of your enterprise systems, both natively or via web API.
High-availability
With zero downtime, your conversion service will always be on to meet the demands of your business.
We’re obsessed with our customer’s success. From first-day training to expert implementation – via our friendly, two-hour response time support (we’re proud of that) – our team is here to ensure your DocShifter project is up and running, on-time and on-budget.
Training
DocShifter is easy to navigate and learn. A single DocShifter expert can remotely train an entire team to install and use the platform in a day. Simple.
Implementation
Choose to have DocShifter implemented by one of our experts, by your IT department, or both. Whatever your current setup is, we’re here to deliver a seamless experience. Without the stress.
Support
From setup to scale-up, our document and systems experts are on hand to support anything you need. And with our award-winning, two-hour response time, you’ll never be kept waiting.
