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AI PDF Extraction

"It's going to be too expensive and time consuming to convert my legacy PDF parts manuals to interactive."

With Documoto you can use AI to transform static PDF parts catalogs into structured, interactive parts manuals - dramatically reducing the time required to publish, maintain, and update aftermarket information.

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Offer Buyers the Self-Service Convenience They Demand

Using digital catalogs as your go-to sales and marketing tool, you can transform your sales process, making every aspect smoother and easier for your customers and your team. Documoto’s Storefront makes transactions quick and seamless. Unlike consumer-oriented and B2B e-commerce systems, Documoto is exclusively designed to sell parts for machinery and equipment.

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Enable Your Team

Documoto’s Cloud Library gives teams an easily managed environment to store and share critical content. By storing important files, the Cloud Library supports almost all units within an organization. It empowers asset managers, maintenance teams, sales teams, quality control, and more. It can serve as an asset management or after-sales support tool, and even a knowledge bank, all rolled into one.

How It Works

Upload. Extract. Review. Publish.

Documoto uses AI-assisted extraction to identify:
  • Parts lists & BOMs
  • Callouts
  • Illustrations
  • Metadata
  • Page structure
Your team reviews the results, makes any necessary adjustments, and publishes directly into Documoto.
Not black-box AI.
A guided workflow designed for Technical Publications teams.
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Turn Your Legacy PDF Catalogs into Interactive Manuals

Reduce Manual Conversion Effort

  • Spend less time rebuilding catalogs from scratch. 

Accelerate Interactive Publishing

  • Turn existing PDFs into searchable, interactive parts manuals much faster. 
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Preserve Existing Investments

  • Reuse years of valuable parts documentation rather than recreate it.

Create AI-Ready Content

  • Structured content is easier to maintain, integrate, search, and leverage in future AI initiatives. 

Why Documoto

Unlike generic PDF extraction tools, Documoto doesn’t stop at extracting information.

Documoto transforms legacy documentation into access-controlled, interactive parts identification and connects critical parts data to ordering workflows, APIs, and customer self-service.

This solution is best for manufacturers and fleet owners that have: 

  • Large libraries of PDF parts catalogs
  • Legacy product documentation
  • Limited structured source data
  • Upcoming catalog modernization initiatives

Manufacturers have invested years creating parts catalogs, but too many still live as static PDFs. It's time for you to unlock the value of your PDF parts information.

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Export with Documoto

Pages, chapters, BOMs, entire books, at your fingertips, all with consistent branding and access control.

Use Documoto's native format-specific exporters, like SmartEquip Publisher, to seamlessly use Documoto in partner or channel platforms.

Or work with Documoto's Solutions Consultants to create structured content exports for your custom applications.

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Empower your Aftermarket Sales & Support Staff to:

  • Sell through your dealer/distributor network or direct to equipment owners. Either way, you gain a competitive advantage by providing a superior online experience.
  • Integrate Documoto with an ERP system to automate price and inventory updates. Align it with other data systems to improve customer support and aftermarket sales procedures.
  • Offer buyers the self-service convenience they demand using QR codes to access parts information from any device, any location, and increase sales revenue.
  • Boost average order size via suggested items, component assemblies, and saved shopping carts.
  • Reduce customer service phone time spent on fundamental orders.
  • Capture part sales currently fulfilled by non-OEM vendors and suppliers. Increase profits by targeting a larger share of aftermarket parts sales.

Grow your aftermarket sales revenue—while improving customer satisfaction.

Lessen the load on your parts sales team, and make finding and ordering parts easy for buyers. The Documoto Storefront turns your electronic parts catalogs into an online sales channel, creating a smooth, tailored, profitable storefront. And it’s open 24/7.

Streamlined interface.

  • Seamlessly integrate with your eCommerce platform to prioritize the customer experience. Digital catalogs act as your go-to sales and marketing tool, streamlining the sales process.
  • Limit costly system errors. Integrations into your ERP facilitate automated price and real-time inventory data.
  • Make it easy for customers to buy the right part. With clear product information and integrations into your ERP, our seamless product interface allows your customer service team to dedicate less time to simple orders. This enables them to provide more curated insight into complex customer issues.

Specialized sales platform.

  • Documoto is exclusively designed to sell parts for machinery and equipment. The Documoto Storefront lets you sell through your dealer or distributor network or directly to the equipment owner.
  • We know how complicated manufacturing equipment can be. That’s why we’ve built a secure online sales channel where dealers, equipment owners, technicians, and other parties can look up and order OEM parts with confidence.

Profitable online sales.

  • Increase order accuracy. Link everything — equipment parts, assemblies, models, families, and brands — to pertinent supporting content ranging from PDFs to dynamic books, videos, and HTML content, in order to offer context and instill confidence in customers. With part-level editing and “where used” admin controls, you can be confident that a part change will populate everywhere it needs to.
  • Boost the average order size. Features like saved shopping carts and suggested items increase your aftermarket sales revenue. You can even show different prices to different users, to accommodate varying client relationships.

Manufacturers using Documoto’s Storefront increased their online parts sales by over 50%.

Automate with Documoto

Share common content and sections between products. Make part and assembly changes once and see the changes update wherever they are used, automatically.

Create automatic or scheduled connections to platforms in the Documoto ecosystem using native integrations. Manage job-specific queries and tasks with dozens of Documoto API endpoints. Or build custom connections to your business stack with Swagger-documented access through REST API.

 

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Are you ready to learn more?

Documoto powers hundreds of the world's largest equipment brands across over 100 countries in 27 languages. See how Documoto can help you simplify publishing, improve dealer and customer experience, and create a source of truth for your aftermarket parts and service experience.