Bindery — PDF Asset Importer

Turn the maps, handouts, and art from your RPG PDFs into ready-to-use Foundry content — in minutes, not hours.

Bindery analyzes the layout of a PDF you own, shows you everything it found on a review screen, and creates nothing until you approve it. It works independently of game system and language.

✨ FEATURES

📖 Smart image detection

- Classifies images in your PDF (maps, handouts, portraits)
- Auto-selects the likely useful ones; uncertain ones go to an "undecided" list for you to decide
- ~95% precision of auto-selection (measured on a 3-book reference set)

🗺️ Flexible import

- Import as Scenes (e.g. full-page maps) or Journal Entry handouts
- Group images into journals
- Select & cut — drag a rectangle over any page to crop a custom image

🧙 Token preparation toolkit

- Background removal with a manual touch-up tool
- Four mask shapes
- Built-in or custom token frames
- Sharpening

🔒 You stay in control

- Nothing is imported without your approval
- Works only with files you own; does not bypass encryption or password protection
- Contains no publisher content

⚠️ KNOWN LIMITATIONS (early development)

- Image detection is not perfect: ~85% of useful images are auto-selected or listed as undecided. Anything missed can be cropped manually with Select & cut.
- Background removal is semi-manual: areas fully enclosed by the subject need one click.
- Works on self-hosted Foundry and on The Forge . Other hosting providers have not been tested.
- Not in this release: Actor (stat block) import, random tables, items, spells, full-book text-to-journal.

Requires Foundry VTT v14 or later.

❤️ Enjoying Bindery? Support development on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/EtrimontsWorkshop

Full documentation, bug reports and feature requests: https://github.com/EtrimontsWorkshop/bindery