PDF Studio

Launch notes, workflows, and documentation for Novus PDF Studio: uploading PDF forms, scanning likely fields with AI, refining editable layers manually, drawing signatures, and exporting finished documents from the browser editor.

6 articles

About the PDF Studio thread

PDFs are where otherwise-digital workflows fall back to paper. A contract arrives, it needs a name, a date, a signature, and a return, and the obvious free tools want an upload. That is a genuine problem, because the documents people most often need to fill are the ones they should least want on an unfamiliar server: tax forms, medical paperwork, leases, employment agreements. Novus PDF Studio does the work in the browser instead, with twelve page tools plus a fill-and-sign editor.

These articles cover the practical mechanics (how field detection works and where it needs correcting by hand, which field type to use for dates versus checkboxes, and what a scanned document changes about the whole process) alongside the workflow pieces on getting from a photograph of a page to a signed PDF using nothing but a phone and a browser.

What this topic covers

Filling and signing a form without uploading it anywhere
AI field scanning: what it detects reliably, and where you still place fields manually
PDF form field types (text, number, checkbox, date) and choosing the right one
The twelve page tools: merge, split, organize, rotate, number, protect, unlock, compress, flatten, PDF-to-images, images-to-PDF, and OCR
Scan-to-signed workflows starting from a phone camera

Who it's for

Freelancers and small businesses handling contracts and invoices, anyone dealing with sensitive paperwork, and people who have hit a "download requires an account" wall.

6 articles in this thread, newest first. Every one is free to read with no signup.

Beyond the articles: Novus PDF Studio

One private hub for every PDF job: twelve page tools plus a fill-and-sign editor. The articles above are commentary; the pages below are the reference material, documentation for how the app works, a tool map listing every surface in it, and step-by-step tutorials.