About CriticalPDF

CriticalPDF started as an internal tool at a logistics company that had to capture every shipping document out of a tangle of Windows applications. Some were modern, some were twenty years old, and all of them were allergic to PDF plugins.

The team built a virtual printer that worked from every app, a Windows service that routed every capture, and a template engine that pulled values out of each document so the right invoice went to the right customer. It turned out other companies wanted the same thing.

Today CriticalPDF ships as a signed MSI to teams in healthcare, manufacturing, accounting, and government. It's how they get documents out of one Windows application and into another without a fragile chain of scripts, watch folders, and email rules.

The suite is built and maintained by a small development team based in Bettendorf, Iowa. Every release ships out of one engineering room. When you email support, the person who replies sits a desk or two away from the person who wrote the code.