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Getting data out of PDFs, without retyping it.
Guides to the document work that eats afternoons — invoices, receipts, statements and page-by-page PDF jobs — and to the free tools that take the manual parts off your hands.
PDF to Excel
How to Convert Multiple PDFs into One Excel Spreadsheet
Turn a folder of PDFs into a single spreadsheet with one row per document.
How to Convert Scanned PDFs to Excel
What to do when a PDF is a picture of a document rather than a document.
Invoice Automation
How to Extract Invoice Data from PDF to Excel
Get supplier, invoice number, date and total out of PDF invoices and into a sheet.
How to Extract Invoice Line Items
The hardest part of invoice extraction: many rows per document, not one.
Accounting Workflows
How to Consolidate Multiple Invoices into Excel
Bring a month of supplier invoices together into one sheet you can total.
How to Extract Purchase Orders to Excel
Match purchase orders against invoices by getting both into the same sheet.
PDF Tools
How to Merge PDF Files Online Without Uploading Them
Combine several PDFs into one file in your browser, in the order you choose, without sending the documents to a server.
How to Split PDF Pages
Separate one PDF into smaller files by page range, in the browser.
How to Compress a PDF Without Losing Quality
Why PDFs get large, and which parts of one can safely be made smaller.
Document Extraction
How to Extract Specific Fields from PDFs
Name the columns you want and pull only those values out of a stack of documents.
How to Convert PDF to CSV
Get a PDF's contents into a comma-separated file that any spreadsheet can open.
How to Extract Tables from PDF
Pull a table out of a PDF without retyping it, and what makes one hard to read.
Excel Tips
PDF to CSV vs PDF to Excel
Which of the two you actually want, and what each one loses.
AI for Operations
How to Turn Receipts into Excel
Expense receipts are short, numerous and inconsistent. Here is how to batch them.
Bookkeeping Automation
How Bookkeepers Can Automate Invoice Data Entry
Where the hours actually go in supplier invoice processing, and which parts a machine can take.
The tools these guides use are free
Merging, splitting, counting pages and pulling the raw text out of a PDF all run in your own browser with no signup and no upload. They are on the free tools page.
Open the free tools