I'm trying to extract item-level data from packing slips that are mostly PDF scans from our suppliers. The goal is to compare what was actually shipped against what we received, but manually matching everything is really slow and inconsistent. Does anyone have suggestions for faster methods? Even something that's partially automated would be a huge help!
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You might want to check out NAPS2; it has OCR capabilities for scanning PDFs. After that, consider using an AI tool to pull and organize the data for you. It's a good combo that can save you a lot of time!
Have you looked into different OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools? They can help with pulling text from scanned PDFs, which might speed up the data extraction process.
We started using a tool called Talonic this year to extract data from hand-filled PODs into our database. It's been super helpful, and I believe it works for scanned documents too! Definitely worth checking out!
Thanks! I'll give Talonic a try.