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Doculians From product data to the finished document, on your InDesign templates

Doculians composes product sheets, datasheets, labels and marketing collateral on your InDesign templates, from your Akeneo PIM data, Excel files or Pim2catalog exports. Automatic or on-demand generation; PDF, native InDesign or JPG output.

Why Doculians

Product sheets and technical documents don't live in a single catalog: they're generated on demand by sales, marketing and support. Every manual update multiplies errors and delays.

Doculians composes these documents on your InDesign templates from your product data: Akeneo through the API, Excel files or Pim2catalog exports. Each document is generated automatically or on demand, then delivered as PDF, native InDesign or JPG.

Where Pim2catalog prepares a catalog that your studio then assembles in InDesign, Doculians produces the finished document itself, one at a time or in batches.

What Doculians produces

  • Product sheets and datasheets, one-off or in batches.
  • Marketing collateral (one-pagers, sales sheets, POS).
  • Labels, notices, ad-hoc promotional catalogs.
  • Variants per target, market, language or channel.

What you get

  • Product data from Akeneo, Excel or Pim2catalogAkeneo through the API (all editions, values per language and channel), XLS / XLSX files, Pim2catalog exports
  • Your InDesign templates, or ready-to-use templatesTables, lists, visuals, captions and pictograms composed in the template
  • Automatic or on-demand generationAutomatic or manual selections from the web interface, one-off or in batches
  • PDF, JPG, native InDesign export
  • Delivery by download, FTP or back into AkeneoThe generated document can be pushed back into the Akeneo product through the API
  • Audit trail of produced documents
  • API for integration into sales tooling

From data to delivered document

Doculians composes and produces the document; your InDesign templates stay yours.

  1. Your product data is read

    Automatic

    Akeneo through the API, an Excel file or a Pim2catalog export: references, attributes, visuals, values per language and channel.

  2. The InDesign template is prepared

    Human

    Your studio keeps its templates, or starts from a ready-to-use one; tables, lists, visuals and pictograms are placed in it.

  3. You choose what is generated

    Assisted

    Automatic or manual product selection from the web interface, one-off or in batches.

  4. Doculians composes the document

    Automatic

    The data is placed in the template; the document is produced as PDF, native InDesign or JPG.

  5. The document is delivered

    Automatic

    Download, FTP drop, or push back into the Akeneo product through the API.

Connected to Akeneo, your files and Pim2catalog

  • PIM connectorAkeneoProduct data read through the API, all editions; document pushed back into the product; connector listed on the Akeneo App Store
  • Technical integrationExcel files (XLS, XLSX)Generation from a file, without a PIM
  • Technical integrationPim2catalog exportsThe exports of a Pim2catalog catalog feed Doculians
  • Technical integrationFTPDrop of the generated documents

Who it's for

  • Marketing teams publishing product documents regularly.
  • Sales leadership equipping field reps with up-to-date sheets.
  • Companies with a PIM but no publishing automation.

Concrete use cases

  • On-demand product sheets for a field sales team

  • Product sheets generated automatically from Akeneo and pushed back into the PIM

  • Marketing documents personalised by customer segment

  • Technical notices auto-updated from PIM data changes

  • Product labels and price lists generated from an Excel file

Customer story: PiveteauBois

PiveteauBois

Industry. Product sheets updated by hand, sheet by sheet, from PIM data.

Over 2,000 product sheets generated automatically from the PIM with Doculians.

Doculians enabled us to automatically generate over 2,000 product sheets from our PIM, eliminating manual sheet-by-sheet updates.

Marine Rocher, PIM Project Manager
Read the Piveteau story

Training and support

Doculians support

Frequently asked questions

Does Doculians replace my PIM?

No. Doculians plugs into your existing PIM (or DAM/PLM) and turns its data into publish-ready documents. It's a publishing layer, not a PIM.

Which data sources does Doculians accept?

Akeneo through the API, whatever the edition, Excel XLS or XLSX files, and the exports of a Pim2catalog catalog.

Are my InDesign templates editable?

Yes. Your design teams keep control of the templates. Doculians feeds them with data, nothing more.

Which output formats?

PDF, native InDesign (INDD) and JPG. Documents are downloaded, dropped on an FTP server or pushed back into the Akeneo product.

Doculians and Pim2catalog: what is the difference?

Pim2catalog prepares a catalog (brief, flatplan, rules, prices) that your studio then assembles in InDesign; Doculians composes each document itself on an InDesign template and delivers the PDF, INDD or JPG. The two combine: Pim2catalog exports can feed Doculians.

How many documents can we generate?

Our customers routinely produce several thousand documents per month. The cloud architecture scales without manual intervention.

Ready to industrialise your publications?

Join the B2B teams who automate catalogs, product sheets and technical collateral with Naolis, without giving up graphic quality.

  • Free 30-minute audit
  • Akeneo, Quable and Daiteo partner · EasyCatalog integrator
  • No commitment