Oxford, Ohio · Butler County & Greater Cincinnati
Somebody is retyping a PDF into a spreadsheet right now
Every business I look at has at least one person whose week is partly consumed by moving information out of documents and into systems. Purchase orders into the job board. Invoices into accounting. Dimensions off a drawing into a quote. Insurance details off a form into a chart.
This is probably you if
- Someone retypes purchase orders into your job system
- Customers send the same information in ten different formats
- You find data-entry mistakes weeks later
- Paper forms get scanned and then typed up again
- Your team asks for information that is already in an email
Why this survived so long
Because it is genuinely hard. Every customer sends a slightly different PO format. Drawings are inconsistent. Half the forms are scans of scans. Traditional software needs a template per format, and nobody has time to build fifty templates.
That is the specific thing that changed. Reading a document that has never been seen before, in a layout nobody defined, is now reliable enough to build on.
What I build
A pipeline that watches wherever the documents arrive, an inbox, a shared drive, a scanner folder, and pulls out the fields that matter to you. Part numbers, quantities, dates, dimensions, totals, terms.
It writes those into whatever you already use. Anything it is not confident about is queued for a human rather than written in wrong, because a silently wrong record is worse than no record.
Where it pays off fastest
Purchase orders into job records. Supplier invoices into accounting. Drawings into estimates. Intake forms into patient or client records. Anything that arrives as a PDF and ends up as a row in something.
Questions people actually ask
- Our documents are messy scans. Will that work?
- Usually. Handwriting and poor scans are where confidence drops, which is exactly when it should ask a person instead of guessing. That threshold is something we tune together.
- What if it reads something wrong?
- Everything it extracts keeps a link back to the source document and the spot it came from, so a person can check it in seconds. Low-confidence fields never get written automatically.
- Does this replace someone?
- In practice it removes the part of a job nobody wanted. The businesses I have worked with reassign that time rather than the person, usually because they were already short-staffed.
Worth a conversation?
Fifteen or twenty minutes about how your business actually runs. No deck, no discovery fee. If I do not think there is anything here worth building, I will tell you that.
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