A natural language-driven tool that enables users to design and style scholarly PDFs without needing technical typesetting knowledge. It allows users to interact directly with elements of a document and instruct the AI to apply style changes (e.g. “make the title bold”), supports live preview, and is integrated into the HTML-first Kotahi publishing platform.
Benefits & outcomes
- Enables non-specialist users to create production-quality PDFs
- Reduces reliance on expensive manual typesetting tools
- Facilitates rapid and flexible design adjustments via plain English prompts
- Ideal for Diamond OA journals and small publishing teams
- Supports customized workflows for self-publishing and print-on-demand
Notes & quotes
“Click on any part of your article—like text or images—and simply tell the AI what you’d like to change.”
“Currently tailored for teams without professional production staff… an ideal solution for… Diamond OA publishing.”
Built on an HTML-first foundation with Paged.js, Wax, and CSS — prioritizing web-native design flexibility over legacy desktop software.
“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 case study: 29/02/2024
Source: https://www.robotscooking.com/redefining-document-design-unveiling-our-ai-powered-pdf-designer/