A mortgage paperwork headache became a 2D PDF tool
A mortgage required 17 PDF documents, and keeping track of every file became hard. The paperwork moved back and forth, missing pieces had to be checked, and eventually turned into one long 40-page PDF that was difficult for both sides to follow. PDFx was built to make that kind of document work easier.
It lets someone move across the pages of one file in one direction and move through more files in another direction. The feels closer to Figma or Canva, but it is made for handling PDFs. Whole folders can be imported, and images can be placed between pages and turned into PDFs.
The file still opens like a long PDF in Chrome or Acrobat, but inside the PDFx app, places the documents and pages in a 2D space. The project is free and on GitHub.
Key points
- The problem started with a mortgage process that required many PDF files.
- PDFx shows pages and files in a 2D instead of one long document list.
- It can import whole folders and insert images between pages as PDFs.
- The file remains readable in Chrome and Acrobat as a regular long PDF.
- The tool is free and on GitHub.