Contributors Maintainers

BLAYDE MANUAL // PDF PATCHER

the whole idea, in one picture

Pick your PDF manual. We identify it, check the registry, and patch in contributed photos.

Turn this

into THIS!

Revive your old vehicle manuals.

100% local

No PDF content is uploaded anywhere. It stays on your device the whole time.

No AI

Just pattern-matching and text recognition, same as any scanner. More in the FAQ.

Free & open source

No account, no paywall, ever. Fork it, audit it, run your own copy.

Community-run

Maintained by real vehicle owners, not a company. Anyone can become a maintainer.

Pick your PDF manual

Any PDF you legally own. Identified locally and checked against the registry automatically.

Don't have your PDF handy? Browse registered vehicles →

Advanced: manual test mode

Skip the registry entirely and pick one test photo yourself -- for local testing without a published registry to point at.

[..........] waiting

Pick a PDF to begin

We don't have this one yet. Want to be first?

Nobody's indexed this manual yet. Here are the five steps involved, and there are no surprises.

One sign-in gets you into the Maintainer Portal, where you can index manuals, review submissions, and, once you're approved, manage who else works on this vehicle with you.

Index the manual ~20 min, automatic

Pick the same PDF here. Indexing reads the whole document and finds where every photo belongs. It can take up to about 20 minutes for a large manual, so feel free to switch tabs while it runs. If you close the browser by accident, just come back and pick the same file again to pick up where you left off.

Give it a quick pass ~15 min

Confirm the vehicle name, add a link to where you got the manual, and clear out anything the auto-detection obviously got wrong. It doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be a real first pass, not raw output nobody's looked at.

Submit and wait days, mostly waiting

A small team checks the basics: is the source verifiable, does the name follow convention, was this actually reviewed. It's not a photo-by-photo audit, and it's usually not a long wait.

You're the maintainer ongoing

Once approved, you're the first maintainer for this vehicle. Review photo submissions and steer quality -- that's the whole job.

⚠ You can't approve your own photo contributions, so finding a co-maintainer is your first real task, not an afterthought.

These 5 steps seem reasonable? Read the maintainer guidance for a quick list of expectations and support. Then choose:

Not me, but I know someone who'd be great at this →

Link copied. Send it to them -- this exact page, this exact manual.