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title: Automatically convert to PDF
description: Automatically generate standard PDF copies, supporting documents, pictures, engineering drawings and other formats.
slug: automation-pdf
lang: en
category: Product Features
category_order: 6
order: 4
keywords:
  - automation
  - Automatically convert to PDF
  - Workflow
---

# Automatically convert to PDF

Automatically generate standard PDF copies, supporting documents, pictures, engineering drawings and other formats.

![Automatically convert to PDF](../../assets/images/automation-create.webp)
*Automated tasks can be configured from the folder task entry or automated task list.*

### Function Overview

In business links such as cross-enterprise collaboration, external data distribution, and project finalization and archiving, the PDF format has become a standard document exchange medium due to its consistency in cross-device display and anti-tampering properties. BabelBird's "Auto-to-PDF" function aims to establish an automated file format standardization channel. After configuring this task, when a file is added to the selected target directory, the system will silently trigger the conversion engine in the background to automatically convert it into a standard PDF file. This capability greatly eliminates the inefficient labor of manually exporting PDFs one by one, ensuring the standardization of data external output and internal archiving.

### Execution logic and boundary conditions

In order to ensure the efficient operation of the underlying computing resources of the platform and the safe and controllable flow of enterprise data, the following execution logic and boundary restrictions are set for the automatic conversion task:

Scope and traceability processing: This task can be overridden downwards and supports checking to apply to files in the target directory and all subfolders. In addition, the rules also support traceability to historical data and can be applied to existing files in the directory. However, to ensure execution stability, the number of files processed in a single traceability process is strictly limited to 5,000.

System performance protection mechanism: In order to prevent extremely large source files from occupying computing power for a long time during the conversion process and causing the task queue to be blocked, the system has a built-in file size threshold, that is, large files exceeding 30MB will not trigger the automatic conversion mechanism.

Automatic release of storage space: For the specific business scenario of "only keeping the final PDF", users can check the "Delete original file after successful conversion" option in the task configuration interface. After turning on this policy, the system will automatically clean up the original files after confirming that the PDF copy is generated correctly, thereby greatly optimizing the utilization of network disk storage space.

### Extensive format compatibility matrix

Babel's automatic conversion engine has powerful multi-format parsing capabilities and supports automatic dumping of mainstream business documents in 32 different industries into PDF. Users can choose to perform conversion on "all supported files", or use the drop-down menu to accurately select the extensions they need to convert by category. The specific supported format matrix is as follows:

Document typesetting: fully compatible with source files generated by mainstream office and publishing software, including doc, docx, ppt, pptx, wps, epub, dpt, indd, rtf, docm and pptm.

Pictures and images: Supports rendering and conversion of mainstream bitmaps, digital negatives and medical image formats, covering jpg, bmp, jpeg, jpg2, png, psd, tif, tiff, raw, cr2, dcm and heic.

Graphics and engineering drawings: Deeply adapted to vector and CAD drawing conversion in the fields of design and construction engineering. Supported formats include ai, svg, eps, dwg, dwt and dxf.