Read

PDF

A working PDF viewer to navigate, search, annotate, extract, redact, audit and question your documents with Ambre.

Download All features

App access: PDF
Target module: Viewer PDF
Reference: Read, search, annotate and secure your documents.

Screenshot of the PANACHES PDF viewer with document, thumbnails, search and side tools.

Module overview

Work with your PDFs as real project documents

PDF provides a local viewer designed for document work: single-page or double-page navigation, zoom, rotation, full-text search, annotations, page gallery, metadata, export, printing, security, redaction and AI assistance. The module helps you read, understand, protect and reuse a document without leaving PANACHES.

What the module brings

Read and browse a PDF with zoom, rotation, display modes, thumbnails and quick navigation.
Search for information in the document, view context and annotate important passages.
Audit, encrypt, manage permissions, inspect signatures or redact sensitive information.

In practice

What the module brings.

The PDF module brings together advanced navigation, asynchronous search, persistent annotations, security, encryption, redaction, audit, signatures and local AI assistance.

For : Legal teams, researchers, administrators, consultants, trainers

Capabilities

What you can do.

Contextual search
Persistent annotations
Security and redaction

Module overview

Real situations

Professional reading

Open a report, navigate through thumbnails, search for a concept, annotate useful pages and extract important passages.

Sensitive document

Check metadata, permissions, encryption or signatures, then apply redaction if some information should not be shared.

Assisted synthesis

Ask Ambre for a page summary, a structured extraction or an answer about the document content, while keeping final validation.

Workflow

A concrete use case.

Open a PDF
Search, annotate or summarize
Secure, extract or export

PANACHES connections

Ambre local AI Notepad Document Moodboard Filesystem

Go further

Related guides and resources.

Guides

Local AI

Ambre and your sources: ask documents, notes and knowledge

PANACHES connects documents, notes and Ambre so you can find the right information and work with source-aware answers.

Read

Technical

Performance: adapt PANACHES to your machine

PANACHES brings many tools together; comfort naturally depends on project size, open media and selected AI models.

Read

Resources

Workflow

Quickstart PDF -> annotation -> synthesis -> export

Move from an annotated PDF to a usable synthesis without leaving the local workspace.

Open resource

Prompt

Ambre prompt pack for document analysis

Short prompts to summarize, compare, critique and transform long sources.

Open resource

Same family

Related modules.

EPUB

A local EPUB reader to browse your books, resume your progress, highlight, annotate, search and question the content with Ambre.

Explore