Oversight of a migration that can take months
Upload, assess, approve, push through. And always see how much work is left.
What this is about
In a migration of hundreds or thousands of articles the question is never whether it is possible but where you stand. PDF Browser is where supplier PDFs arrive before they are converted. You look at the line drawing, check whether it is usable, mark it as ready, in progress or rejected, and push the approved drawings on to conversion.
That turns a migration from a black hole into a work queue with a counter: how much is waiting, what is done, which supplier is finished. It sounds modest, but it is exactly what a project manager lacks when estimating whether a supplier with eight thousand articles is going to make the deadline. A rejected drawing does not disappear but waits for a better version.
PDF Browser provides instant access to all generated documents. Search by document number, customer, date or type and preview, download or share directly.
Before a PDF goes to the 2D tool, it must be prepared. PDF Browser handles this preparation step.
Who we built this for
Anyone running or commissioning a migration: the project manager who wants to know where it stands, and the person assessing the drawings. Also for us: we use the same tool during a client migration, so you see the same counter we do and do not have to rely on a progress percentage in an email.
And for the buyer talking to the supplier. A rejected drawing with a reason attached is a concrete question to that supplier, rather than a general complaint that the print data is no good. In practice that produces a better version faster than an email saying it does not work this way.
What you get with it:
What actually happens
This is not about converting — PDF Editor does that — but about the order beforehand. Start without a queue and halfway through you have a folder of files nobody can map to what is already done.
Importing PDFs per supplier
A folder of supplier files arrives in one go, grouped per supplier instead of as one large pile.
Viewing and assessing
The line drawing next to the article, so someone can see whether the drawing belongs to the product and whether it is usable.
Status per file
Ready, in progress or rejected, with a reason. A rejected drawing waits for a better version from the supplier.
Pushing through to conversion
Only approved drawings go to PDF Editor, so no mess flows through into the catalogue.
Progress per supplier
How many are waiting, how many are done and which supplier is completely finished.
Oversight of the whole project
One counter a project manager can steer on, instead of a feeling and a weekly question.
Conversion workflow
Upload, review, approve, send to 2D tool. PDF Browser manages the first three steps of this chain.
PDF Upload
Import supplier PDFs for migration.
Preview & Review
View line drawings and check quality.
Status Manager
Mark as ready, in progress, or rejected.
Conversion Queue
Send approved PDFs to the 2D tool.
How it fits with the rest
PDF Browser sits before PDF Editor: sorting and approval here, conversion there. The result lands as a technique rule in the PIM and is then used by Magic Logo and the quote module. So the path from a supplier PDF to a price on the product page can be followed step by step.
Image Browser meanwhile manages the article data of the same supplier, so data and print areas come together instead of living in two projects that do not know each other. In a migration those two tracks run side by side and both can be counted.
What it delivers:
Do you have a migration ahead of you?
We make a count of what there is to do: how many drawings exist, how many are usable, and what that means for the lead time. Useful even if you run the migration yourself.
After that you can choose: you assess and we convert, or we do both and you watch the same counter.