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Whale PDF and Word Import

Turn years of PDFs and Word docs into structured SOPs

Upload your existing Word files, PDFs, and PowerPoints. Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, parses each document and returns a structured SOP with headings, sections, and steps intact.
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Can you just show me how to do that again?

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Our training is just... a folder of PDFs.

Years of SOPs trapped in files nobody opens

You already have years of policies written in Word and PDF. Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, pulls them into Whale as structured cards your team will actually use.
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I don't know... Sarah used to do that.

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How teams do it today

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Dozens of Word docs and PDFs buried in a shared drive

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The thought of rewriting every document from scratch

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Static files nobody can search, assign, or track

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New hires never open the PDFs anyone sends them

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With Whale's PDF and Word Import

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Upload files in bulk and parse them with one click

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Alice parses each file into a structured SOP in seconds

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Every imported doc becomes a searchable, assignable card

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New hires get assigned training flows built from your docs

Bring every existing doc with you

Upload Word files, PDFs, and PowerPoints in bulk from any playbook. Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, reads each document, preserves the headings and section structure, and returns a Whale card ready to publish. No rewriting, no copy-paste migration, no manual formatting.
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Structured SOPs out of unstructured files

Alice parses each upload into a clean SOP with a title, sections, numbered steps, and formatting intact. Tables and lists carry over. You review the draft, adjust the structure, and publish. What took a week of copy-paste migration lands in Whale the same afternoon.

Imported docs plug into the full Whale platform

Every imported SOP lands in your knowledge base. Assign it inside a training flow and track completion. Alice answers questions pulled from the content. CoPilot surfaces the SOP inside the tool where the process runs. The document you uploaded yesterday becomes the training material your team works through today.
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How it works

Step 1 badge, click record and work through your process

Upload your files

Drag Word docs, PDFs, or PowerPoint files into any Whale playbook. Upload one document or a batch at once.
Step 2 badge, review your generated SOP

Review the generated SOP

Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, returns a structured card with headings, sections, and steps preserved. Edit the wording, reorder sections, or add media before you publish.
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Assign it to your team

Publish the SOP to your knowledge base, add it to a training flow with a deadline, or let CoPilot surface it inside the tool where the work happens.

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Five star G2 rating

4.8/5 (180+ reviews)

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Loved for its overall simplicity and support

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Frequently Asked Questions

Word documents (.doc and .docx), PDFs (.pdf), and PowerPoint presentations (.ppt and .pptx). If your content lives in Google Docs or Pages, export to Word or PDF first, then upload. Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, reads the text, headings, and structure from any of these formats and builds a Whale card from what is inside.
Yes. Headings become card sections. Numbered and bulleted lists carry over as numbered steps. Tables are preserved. Basic text formatting stays intact. Very custom layouts, multi-column designs, or embedded diagrams may need a quick manual pass after import. The goal is a structured SOP you can edit and publish, not a pixel-perfect copy of the source file.
Yes. You can upload a batch of files in a single import action. Each document becomes a separate Whale card, so if you import ten PDFs, you get ten structured SOPs ready to review. Large libraries with hundreds of files are best imported in batches, which also makes review easier.
Images embedded in the Word file or PDF are carried into the imported card as attached media. Screenshots, flowcharts, and diagrams show up where they appeared in the source. Complex vector diagrams may render as flat images. You can swap them out, add captions, or replace them with Whale’s native Rich Media Editor after import.
Every part of the imported card is editable. Rewrite the text, reorder sections, delete steps, add new ones, attach video or screenshots, or ask Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, to polish the copy. Once imported, the card behaves like any other Whale card, which means version history tracks every change and you can assign it inside a training flow.
Uploading a PDF to Notion or Google Drive stores the file. It stays a static document your team has to open, read, and navigate. Whale’s import parses the file into a structured SOP card with headings, searchable text, and assignable steps. The SOP drops into a training flow, Alice answers questions from it, and CoPilot surfaces it inside the tool where the process runs. Whale is AI-Powered SOP Software that gets your team trained, so the import is the start of adoption, not the end of migration.