Tutorials· 4 min read
Build a document batch pipeline that checks its outputs
Use free validation and inspection before paid document writes, preserve inputs, handle failures explicitly, and review representative PDF output pages.
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Field notes on document workflows
Practical guides, considered comparisons, and the numbers behind local document automation.
The Jetformat blog is a collection of document workflow tutorials, format comparisons, and credit estimates. Tutorials walk through a task; comparisons explain when operations differ; data articles show their assumptions and calculations. Updated .
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- Comparisons· 5 min read
PDF text extraction versus OCR
Learn when a PDF text layer can be extracted, why scanned pages need OCR elsewhere, and how to verify reading order before creating a Word document.
- Comparisons· 4 min read
Split Word by sections or PDF by pages?
Understand why Word section breaks differ from rendered pages and choose an editable DOCX split or a contiguous PDF extraction for the intended output.
- Comparisons· 4 min read
Word templates, mail merge, or legacy form fields?
Choose the right Jetformat command for Word content controls, MERGEFIELD codes, and legacy form fields, then verify the filled document.
- Tutorials· 6 min read
How AI agents turn live HTML into a reliable PDF
Render local HTML, static sites, and deployed URLs with CSS, assets, and JavaScript timing under one repeatable Jetformat command.
- Tutorials· 6 min read
Why AI agents should run word, excel, and ppt to-pdf
Office files are packages, not plain text. See how a local CLI gives AI agents a dependable path from DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX to PDF.
- Tutorials· 5 min read
Local PDF workflows you can verify
Keep source files local, make outputs inspectable, and let an AI agent report what a PDF workflow actually wrote.