Enterprise PDF Editing Inside SaaS Products

Context

Product teams often need to embed PDF workflows inside their own SaaS—contracts, statements, onboarding docs, compliance packets, and customer forms. The challenge is that many implementations force a tradeoff: either a “desktop-style editor” experience or a set of API utilities. That split usually creates feature mismatch, fragmented governance, and inconsistent user outcomes.

What we built

A unified web PDF platform that combines an Acrobat-class editor experience, viewer, SDK/REST API, and real-time collaboration—built to work as a single coherent system rather than stitched-together modules.

Core problem

Teams needed “PDF editing inside our product” without:

• forcing a choice between an editor experience vs API tooling,
• accepting gaps between UI features and automation capabilities,
• compromising on governance, auditability, or enterprise controls.

Approach

We designed for one source of truth: the same core engine powering the UI, automation workflows, and external integrations. This reduces surprises during rollout and eliminates the typical “it works in the UI but not in the API” problem (and vice versa).

Architecture highlights

• Single core engine powering:
  • interactive UI editing,
  • server-side automation,
  • SDK usage and customer integrations.
• Collaboration primitives designed for teams:
  • comments/annotations,
  • presence indicators,
  • activity feed,
  • version history.
• Governance and enterprise controls
  • admin configurations,
  • feature gating and entitlements,
  • security-first modular controls for high-trust environments.
• Audit-ready system behavior
  • action/event trails suitable for enterprise workflows (while keeping content privacy considerations intact).

Outcome

• Faster integration into customer products (less glue code, fewer mismatched behaviors)
• Cleaner governance with centralized control and predictable entitlements
• A more reliable end-user document experience with collaboration-ready workflows

Next step

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