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Turn PDFs and documents into ebook source material

Use reports, PDFs, slide decks, and structured documents as grounded source material for a Scribora ebook.

Import documents as evidence, not as layout

When you upload a document, Scribora extracts its usable content into the project's source layer. The goal is to understand and reuse the information, not to preserve the visual layout of the original file.

That distinction matters for reports and slide decks: headings, arguments, examples, and facts can inform the new book even though the exported ebook receives its own structure and formatting.

Use documents selectively

  • Prefer primary reports and material you are allowed to use.
  • Remove obsolete versions when a newer document supersedes them.
  • Add your own notes alongside reference documents so the project retains your interpretation and point of view.
  • Check quotations, tables, and externally sourced facts before publication.

What the current document parser actually reads

Upload File currently supports PDF and PPTX for document ingestion. PDFs are parsed for extractable text; PPTX files are read slide by slide from text frames. This path does not preserve the original visual layout and does not perform OCR on image-only PDF pages.

A file that yields less than 20 characters of extracted text is rejected as unusable. Extracted source text is capped at 100,000 characters before it is stored as a gathered source.

DOCX is not currently accepted by the project source uploader.

Ready to use the workflow?

Start with a real source set. Scribora is most useful when you already have material worth turning into a book.