The effectiveness of human-machine conversation systems, such as chat-bots and virtual assistants, is directly related to the amount and quality of knowledge available to them. In the digital age, the diversity and quality of data have increased significantly, being available in various formats. Among these, the PDF (Portable Document Format) stands out as one of the most well-known and widely used, adapting to various sectors, such as business, education, and research. These files contain a considerable amount of structured data, such as text, headings, lists, tables, images, etc. The content of PDF files can be extracted using dedicated tools, such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition), PdfMiner, Tabula and others, which have proven to be suitable for this task. However, these tools may encounter difficulties when dealing with the complex and varied presentation of PDF documents. The accuracy of extraction can be compromised by the diversity of layouts, non-standardized formats, and embedded graphic elements in the documents, often leading to manual post-processing. Computer vision, and more specifically, object detection, is a branch of machine learning that aims to locate and classify instances in images using models dedicated to the task. It is proving to be a viable approach to accelerating the work performed by algorithms like OCR, PdfMiner, Tabula and improving their accuracy. Object detection models, being based on deep learning, require not only a substantial amount of data for training but, above all, high-quality annotations, as they have a direct impact on achieving high levels of accuracy and robustness. The diversity of layouts and graphic elements in PDF documents adds an additional layer of complexity, requiring representatively annotated data so that the models can learn to handle all possible variations. Considering the voluminous aspect of the data needed for training the models, we quickly realize that the data annotation process becomes a tedious and time-consuming task requiring human intervention to manually identify and label each relevant element. This task is not only time-consuming but also subject to human error, often requiring additional checks and corrections. To find a middle ground between the amount of data, minimizing annotation time, and high-quality annotations, in this work, we proposed a pipeline that, from a limited number of annotated PDF documents with the categories text, title, list, table, and image as input, can create new document layouts similar to the desired number by the user. This pipeline goes further by filling the new created layouts with content to provide synthetic document images and their respective annotations. With its simple, intuitive, and scalable structure, this pipeline can contribute to active learning, allowing detection models to be continuously trained, making them more effective and robust in the face of real documents. In our experiments, when evaluating and comparing three detection models, we observed that the RT-DETR (Real-Time Detection Transformer) achieved the best results, reaching a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 96.30 percent, surpassing the results of Mask R-CNN (Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks) and Mask DINO (Mask DETR with Improved Denoising Anchor Boxes). The superiority of RT-DETR indicates its potential to become a reference solution in detecting features in PDF documents. These promising results pave the way for more efficient and reliable applications in the automatic processing of documents.