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Messy PDF Data Extraction
Teams waste hours manually extracting and validating structured data from inconsistent, messy PDFs and scans, with frequent errors and unreliable automation.
In their words
Been testing self-hosted OCR to get off Textract, since the managed services sit around $1.50 per 1,000 pages and jump hard once forms and tables are involved.
You will be required to handle various PDF layouts and organize the extracted data into well-structured CSV files.
sometimes I need it to analyze documents with more than 100 pages without losing context, so it's pretty clumsy to keep opening new chats for the same case
I’m wondering if there is one that can take a text sniper like copy of an excel, then paste it word or email and keep it as a table formatting.
I need something that is accurate that I don't have to double check everything, fast and hopefully not so expensive.
Per clean invoice the cheap one worked out to about 1.4 cents.
we process thousands of scanned financial statements and the old OCR tools were garbage, but the newer AI parsers actually handle messy tables and handwritten notes
it’s a just a clutter of multiple files that need organization
Eventually I'd like to be able to process things like scanned permission forms and parent contact information without uploading those documents to an outside AI service.
I need to get the pricing out of them into a proper relational table... the formatting is a mess.
Had a client who was drowning in invoice processing for their small construction firm.
I would like to be able to scan and OCR invoices and receipts. Is it me or it's impossible or too complicated?
My Business Is Dying
There is no way to bulk export all the faxes you sent out (to include the contents itself, such as pdfs etc)
Finance, accounting, and data teams
Where they talk
- r/Accounting
- r/AI_Agents
- r/automation
- r/Rag
- r/documentAutomation
- r/excel
- r/SideProject
- r/ClaudeAI
Tools they use today
- Claude
- Excel
- ChatGPT
- Qwen
- Copilot
- Docling
- Gemini
- GLM
Why those fall short
- Preview gets messy with complex annotations and batch processing
- Wrapped descriptions scatter, columns shift, OCR and converters fail on messy layouts
- setup time adds up fast across a dozen document formats
- no single model wins; tables and scans break; licenses restrict shipping
- still a manual process even after using the combine feature in Onvio
Map of ideas
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