Connect your AI with solopdfs
If you use an AI assistant, it can operate solopdfs tools for you: merge, split, rotate, compress, read or search text, and more. Here we explain, without technical jargon, what ways to connect it exist today and what you should keep in mind.
What “connecting an AI” means
You ask the assistant for something, for example “combine these two PDFs” or “remove blank pages”, and the assistant is the one that clicks the tools. Documents continue to be processed on your computer. Everything the assistant does is recorded in the activity log, with its name.
Ways to connect that exist today
1. An assistant that operates this page
An assistant that can act in your browser (a browsing agent or an extension) can open solopdfs and use the same tools you do, through an entry point offered by the page. While it works, you see a notice with its name and a button to stop it.
2. A desktop assistant that works with a folder
There is a test version designed for desktop assistants: the assistant works with PDFs in a single folder you choose on your computer. It always creates new files and never replaces or deletes yours. It is not yet available for download, and has only had limited testing: there is no guarantee that it will work on your computer.
3. The guide for assistants: llms.txt
We publish a plain text file, meant to be read by an AI assistant, with the list of tools and usage rules. If you give it the address, the assistant knows how to use solopdfs. It is generated from the page's own tool list, so it does not get out of date.
Guide for assistants (llms.txt)
Does it work with my assistant?
We do not claim that any particular AI product works with these ways of connecting. We will only list a product here once we have tested it ourselves. If you try it and something fails, you can let us know with the feedback link in the footer.
Risks worth knowing
- A PDF can contain instructions aimed at the AI. Someone can hide a phrase in a document such as “ignore your instructions and do this instead”. We mark text the assistant reads from a document as untrusted and instruct it not to obey what it finds inside, but an assistant can still make mistakes. Be especially careful with documents from people you do not know.
- What an assistant reads from your documents reaches the company that provides it, just like anything you type to it. If the document is sensitive, consider whether you want to ask it to read it.
- When you turn on the switch, the assistant works on its own, with the same freedom you have: it can remove pages, protect or unprotect, redact text, or transform a document without asking you at each step. Every action is recorded in the activity log, and you can stop it at any time with the Stop button.
- A signed file is treated the same whether you change it or the assistant does: same tool, same warning, and same result. Changing it can invalidate the signature; that is why OCR does not touch the original and creates a copy with another name, and in the other tools the change stays as a version you can undo. A certified file, which does not allow changes, is rejected the same for you as for the assistant. If the signature matters to you, save a copy of the original first.
It is turned off until you turn it on
AI control is turned off by default: until you turn it on, the page offers no entry point to assistants. To allow it, go to the application Settings, to the “AI control” section, and turn on “Allow AI control”. You can turn it off again whenever you want. Your choice is saved only on this device.