Anvil Document SDK - The fastest way to build software for documents
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Anvil Document SDK helps companies get to market fast by accelerating development for document-driven workflows with flexible APIs and no-code components.
I’m Mang-Git, CEO of Anvil.
😡 Problem 😡
Document workflows & PDFs are massive bottlenecks for product and operations teams. If you’ve ever had to build software for documents, you know it’s time-consuming and not scalable. The cost to automate these workflows can quickly add up with a ballooning tech stack and custom software development.
✨ Solution ✨
With the Anvil Document SDK, product teams are empowered to quickly build software for documents. Use our SDK to generate PDFs, collect data, and request e-signatures in your product.
Here’s how our SDK works for everyone (not just engineers):
🏗️ Build the document process you want - Fully customize and embed your desired document workflow experience with pre-built components & flexible APIs.
🚀 Launch in days, not months - Save time with our flexible APIs and no-code builders so your developers can build fast and focus on innovative features.
📣 Your brand, front & center - Embed and style webforms and e-signatures to be indistinguishable from your application.
Start playing with the Document SDK today by clicking the visit button above.
We’d love to hear your questions, feedback, and feature requests.
If you have a particularly interesting use case, we would love to hear that, too. We are constantly surprised by the ingenuity of our customers and love learning about how Anvil helped solve their worst PDF headaches.
@dimitrie_baitanciuc Thanks Dimitrie, taking work of your plate is our goal! Let us know if you have any questions or want to chat about your use case!
@dimitrie_baitanciuc If you have a project in mind, happy to spend some time solutioning with you. I always love hearing about new use cases for Anvil.
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Hey ! Looks amazing ! Could you please let me know if the esignature feature is compliant with EIDAS (Europe certification)? If you answer is "yes", count me in asap ! ;)
Congrats on the launch @manggit 🚀
Your explainer video is so fun! ❤️
Anvil seems really great.
I know a tech founder who's building a form-heavy startup. Gonna tell him about Anvil now.
Congrats again!
PDFs are so frustrating to work with but it's often a format people expect or require. Love that this makes it easy to fill PDFs with a webform (and API....)
@stash_new dont we know it! Getting PDF*ed is a real thing. At an old job, everytime a PDF was updated, I would have to spend a day hand coding the changes into our system. It was the worst.
@manggit ugh yess. Love that way of putting it "PDF*ed" 🤣
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Hey @manggit Congrats on the launch of Anvil.
This looks really great - we know first hand the difficulties of developing software for document workflows/management. Does Anvil work with 'flat' PDF's, or is it just structured/formatted forms?
@sean_t94 Hi Sean, yes, we had no idea how complex paperwork processes can get when we started Anvil. Fortunately I think we did a really good job of breaking down the problem into a solution that can pretty much work for any document-driven process.
To answer you specific question, Anvil works with both flat and structured forms.
We take any PDF, and do the following
1. If its a structured fillable form, we extract the field locations
2. give you a UI to add/identify new field locations
3. Provide you with all of the tooling to build on top of the PDF template, whether it is filling it over API, requesting an e-sig or using our worklfows tool to gather data and complete the PDF.
@sean_t94 oh also, we are building AI features to help auto-identify fields on flat (image) PDFs, and then tag the fields with the most appropriate label. Stay tuned!
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@manggit thanks for taking time to respond. This is really impressive stuff. The AI features for flat PDFs is very interesting indeed! I'll be following Anvil so I can give it a try when the AI feature is in.
I used to work at a fintech and managing our KYC workflow was a major pain point for our entire product team. It's crazy thinking of all the hours and effort we could have saved ourselves if we had been using Anvil instead of trying to handle it all on our own.
When we build user consent forms into fforward we're not going to make the same mistake again. Thanks for building Anvil and congrats to the whole team on the launch.
@maxcameron I don't know any engineer that likes to manually build webforms for PDFs. Anvil helps free up that time for them to work on more interesting projects. KYC, onboarding, statement generation are all super common use cases that we encounter regularly. Looking forward to working with the fforward team.
@ashley_hyman1 ❤️ we love working with the Drata team to make sure we are secure and compliant. Super important when we work with a bunch of financial institutions.
Hey there, congrats on your launch (love the video btw)
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