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Manual PDF Data Entry
Staff waste hours manually extracting and retyping data from PDFs and scans into spreadsheets or systems.
In their words
Excel's 'Get Data from PDF' completely ruined the formatting, and Adobe keeps treating wrapped transaction lines as brand new rows.
there's hundreds of files and forms i need to verify and log separately in another spreadsheet
I still need a way to actually check for and catch errors. That's what I'm really needing ideas for.
Encodian seems expensive for what it does. I’ve been looking for ways to drop that
Our employee upload the sales order, it extracts all the data, we used inbuilt said to process sales order creation.
I'm looking for someone reliable to help with simple copy-paste and data entry tasks.
I'm manually checking for out-of-stock items... I would occasionally miss a line or two. That meant one of my items went out of stock, which in turn meant my company lost money.
I need to take 600 utility bills and format them into excel.
I need to pull specific fields out of a few hundred PDFs and dump everything into a spreadsheet.
my stupid ERP refuses to export this in any format with that info separated
I downloaded all the sell sheets for our inventory items, had it extract the Nutrition Facts and then create a spreadsheet for allergen identification
We are literally paying highly trained quality engineers to sit at their desks, squint at messy PDFs, and manually type chemical data into our procurement system just to prove we are compliant.
It took a human attorney 20-30 minutes on average to manually copy-paste data from these PDFs into a spreadsheet
El flujo ya funciona, pero quiero mejorar su precisión, robustez, escalabilidad y preparación para un uso más profesional/comercial.
Admin, accounting, finance staff
Where they talk
- r/Accounting
- r/excel
- r/automation
- r/documentAutomation
- r/FPandA
- r/pdf
- r/private_equity
- r/microsaas
Tools they use today
- Excel
- Claude
- Copilot
- Word
- Power Automate
- Power Query
- n8n
- Adobe
Why those fall short
- Power Query can't parse the PDF; copy-paste breaks; IT requests take too long
- PDFs cannot be imported directly; conversion and manipulation are tedious and time-consuming.
- PDF layouts inconsistent; scripts need babysitting; no validation
- import returns a maze of nulls and wrongly combined cells
- ERP won't export separated data; editing reports costs extra
Map of ideas
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