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Create a PDF Knowledge Pack
A PDF Knowledge Pack turns a PDF into source-backed content and app-ready artifacts. Use it to build a manual viewer, reference tool, study app, or other application grounded in a source document.
Create a PDF Knowledge Pack
- Open Dashboard → your Site → PDF.
- Choose a PDF upload, supported PDF URL import, or existing PDF from the Site. You can also use the PDF conversion action beside a PDF in the Page tab.
- Set Save as and decide whether to Replace existing pack at this path.
- Select Create PDF Pack and wait for the job to finish.
- Select the job to inspect status, progress, errors, and completed artifacts.
- Preview important extracted text, tables, definitions, formulas, or examples against the original PDF before using them.
Use the completed pack
Use Open App to inspect the app-ready result. Copy AI App Builder Prompt provides the App Prompt for a coding AI. The prompt gives the AI source-backed content and usage instructions so it can build from the pack rather than inventing the PDF’s contents.
Artifact controls let you Preview, Copy, or open the available formats. Use source references when presenting extracted facts in an app. Not every PDF contains every artifact type, and extraction may need review for scanned pages, complex tables, or unusual layouts.
Example: a product manual app
Import the manual, inspect its sections and source references, and copy the App Prompt. Ask the AI to build a searchable guide that links answers back to the relevant source, displays a “not found in source” state, and avoids inventing missing specifications.
Understand access and sharing
The pack belongs to its Site. Review Site and artifact access before sharing a generated app or copied artifact. Do not assume an owner preview proves that an unauthenticated visitor can load the same content. Copying extracted text into a Public Site makes that copy public; changing the source pack’s access cannot retract copies already shared.
Troubleshoot a PDF job
Check the PDF file or direct source URL, current size/page allowance, and the job’s error. A failed job is not a usable completed pack. Retry after fixing the cause. Use Delete only when you intend to remove the selected job/pack and have reviewed its downstream use.