Can Power PDF Support Large-Scale Document Automation?

Processing many documents can be challenging even for a fast and skilled employee. Working down a massive list of PDFs can be tedious and contain many intermediate steps. Consequently, processing each document takes longer than it should. Tungsten Power PDF is a leading solution for simplifying document management processes. More than a PDF editor, it can also be a tool to support your efforts to engage in document automation.

Is Power PDF suitable for those heavy-duty and high-volume tasks, though? From growing businesses to organizations that already operate at scale, meeting the need to support high-volume processing is essential. With a blend of its native functionality and the extended solutions possible with resources from the Tungsten Marketplace, Power PDF is ideal for addressing such needs.

Let’s explore why Power PDF can capably meet needs at scale.

How Power PDF Supports Automation at Scale

Power PDF is a valuable resource at many levels of work volume. However, it remains reliable even when handling numerous daily document-related work actions. Even a small amount of task automation, such as making it more straightforward to send documents to the right file system or create new PDFs, can save a user significant time on menial tasks over the week.

Here are a few ways you can achieve different levels of automation with Power PDF.

Integrate Power PDF support into more applications

Sometimes automation isn’t about overhauling a whole process but eliminating intermediate steps in a workflow. Consider information you may have opened in a proprietary business application but would like to put into a PDF and share. Instead of copying the data and making a PDF by hand, saving the information as a PDF directly from the application would be much easier.

The Power PDF Connector SDK allows for the automation of such tasks by facilitating the direct integration of an application’s functionality into your other business software. You can add a “Save to PDF” or “Open PDF” button to make it easy to pull up reference documents during a task. This time-saving capability helps teams stay agile even when their daily work grows.

You can also use the SDK to connect with your document management systems conveniently. Users can define settings where the “Save to DMS” button points when virtually printing documents via the Power PDF printer.

Dropping PDFs directly into your document management systems is easy, automating a task that a user would otherwise need to execute manually. These minor improvements can have significant impacts at higher scales.

Leverage OLE automation

Some software can execute control over another through OLE to accomplish specific actions. Power PDF broadly supports control via OLE in numerous programming languages. In the Tungsten Marketplace, users can find the Automation Interface Guide to learn how to call different functions in Power PDF via this methodology. Possible use cases include manipulating PDFs, splitting or merging them, managing document formats and more.

With OLE automation and Power PDF, many repetitive tasks are easy to automate. Running batch sequences on many documents is simple, requiring little human intervention. This is just one way this PDF editor scales up to meet the needs of organizations that can’t afford to spend many staff hours daily on basic document manipulation tasks necessary for other work.

Engage AI copilots to accelerate work

AI agents are likely to be a core part of the future of work. The latest version of Power PDF includes new AI Copilots. This feature can revolutionize how you interact with documents. After configuring the software to connect with your LLM tokens of choice, you can query an AI agent directly via a convenient chat interface in Power PDF. Use cases are numerous and can vary based on the capabilities of the model you select.

Typical applications include summarizing dense PDFs, querying for specific information in the document and asking context-related questions about the overall content. As AI continues to accelerate the pace of work, having a copilot at your fingertips in Power PDF is a valuable resource.

Execute batch sequencing via command line

Command-line automation is possible with Power PDF as well. A reference guide highlights how users can create custom scripts to execute specific tasks, from printing pages out of a PDF to changing document options in large groups. Batching documents is efficient and straightforward with command-line scripts. This solution is another excellent example of how Power PDF helps teams work at scale.

Discover Ways to Extend and Enhance Power PDF Today

Power PDF is a robust and reliable solution for basic PDF tasks. It is well-equipped to support more intensive document operations at scale. With the addition of support for AI copilots and deep, LLM-derived analysis, extracting data and understanding dense documents is easier than ever. Scripting capabilities offer multiple methods for achieving batch sequencing, and a flexible SDK ensures you can develop additional integrations wherever necessary.

Document automation doesn’t have to be out of reach, and you can succeed at scale without intensive development efforts and ballooning budgets. With Power PDF and the other solutions in the Marketplace for other Tungsten platforms, discover ways to embrace automation faster, at scale, and with a clear path to a positive ROI. Find out more about these opportunities today.