iLovePDF Premium?

YESA focused first version is a sensible AI-assisted build. Keep the first release narrow and polish the workflow people repeat.

BUILD FIRST

One defined user and a repeatable end-to-end job
A small, clear data model with sign-in only if it is genuinely needed
Loading, empty, error, and success states that make the workflow feel complete

LEAVE FOR LATER

Large integration marketplaces
Multi-region scale and enterprise administration
Every power-user setting from the established product

RESEARCH NOTES

What this tool actually does.

Checked 2026-09-06

iLovePDF Premium is the paid tier of iLovePDF (iLovePDF SL), an online PDF toolbox. Pricing per the official site: $9/month billed monthly or $5/month billed annually ($60/year); a Business plan for 25+ seats adds SSO and a dedicated account manager. Premium promises unlimited document processing across Web, Mobile, and Desktop, ad-free. It unlocks roughly 40 tools: Merge, Split, Compress, Rotate, Organize/Reorder/Remove pages, Crop, Repair, Protect/Unlock, Watermark, Page numbers, Edit, Redact, Copy, Compare, PDF Forms, Scan to PDF, and OCR (PDF to Word/Excel with OCR, OCR PDF). Conversions include Office to PDF, PDF to Word/PowerPoint/Excel, PDF to JPG, Image to PDF, PDF to PDF/A, Web to PDF, PDF extract, and PDF to Markdown. Premium extras: digital signatures, reusable Workflows (batch automations), AI Summarizer and Translate (2,000 AI credits), regional (EU/US) file processing, prio

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RESEARCHED BUILD PROMPT

Give this to your coding agent.

Build a focused replacement for iLovePDF Premium (do not copy the iLovePDF brand, logo, or UI; your own interface layout is required). Core workflow: a user drag-and-drops one or more PDFs, selects a tool from a sidebar, tunes options (compression level, page range, watermark text/image, OCR language), runs the job with visible progress, previews and downloads the result, and can chain steps into saved multi-step Workflows that replay on new uploads. MVP toolset: Merge; Split (by range or per page); Compress with a quality slider; PDF to JPG and Image to PDF; Protect/Unlock via password; Rotate/Reorder/Remove pages; Watermark; OCR-to-editable text extraction. User-facing requirements: instant no-account processing for files up to ~100 MB, private per-job processing (never a shared public queue), optional session history, zip download for multi-file output. Technical requirements: backend (Python/FastAPI or Node) wrapping pdf-lib, PyMuPDF/MuPDF, Ghostscript for compression, and Tesseract OCR; a worker queue (Celery or BullMQ) with enforced upload cleanup; a React/Vue SPA with client-side validation and previews; HTTPS with signed, expiring download URLs. Deliberate out-of-scope for v1: AI summarization/translation, legal e-signature workflows, PDF/A archiving, team/SSO/billing, mobile apps. Deliver a README covering setup, env vars, Docker usage, how each tool is implemented, and important limitations (OCR accuracy on handwriting, compression trade-offs, unsupported PDF/A).

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