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I work in consulting — got tired of copy-pasting from PDFs into workpapers, so I built this inside the Excel taskpane
Been doing document extraction for aviation leasing clients. Every engagement is the same — read through PDFs, pull numbers into Excel, note which page it came from. Built an add-in that sits in the taskpane. You link a folder, ask it to extract, and it fills the cells. Each cell gets a comment with the source:
Started from an empty sheet like this:
Still early, curious what workflows could use this.
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