The Kotahi AI PDF Designer lets users style scholarly PDFs in plain English — click an element, tell the AI "make the title bold", watch the live preview. Built on the HTML-first Kotahi platform with Paged.js, Wax and CSS.
Benefits & outcomes
Production-quality PDFs without typesetting expertise or expensive tools.
Aimed at Diamond OA journals and small teams with no production staff.
Supports self-publishing and print-on-demand workflows.
Notes & quotes
"Click on any part of your article—like text or images—and simply tell the AI what you'd like to change."
The underlying critique: "Authors not only have to pay to make their work openly accessible, but also fund the resource-intensive overhead to generate basic formats."
Publisher / company: Kotahi Foundation
Date of mention: 29/02/2024
Source: https://www.robotscooking.com/redefining-document-design-unveiling-our-ai-powered-pdf-designer/