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Turn PDFs into clean spreadsheets — automatically

Upload PDFs and Lido pulls structured data into Excel or CSV with no templates, no training, and no copy-pasting. One file or ten thousand, same workflow.

  • Template-free extraction. Lido reads any PDF layout, invoices, statements, reports, packing lists, without requiring you to define zones or train a model first.
  • Handles scans and handwriting. Built-in OCR reads image-based PDFs, faxes, and photos of documents. Mixed batches of native and scanned files work in the same run.
  • Batch to your schema. Define the columns you want once. Every file in the batch maps to your output format automatically.
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How PDF-to-spreadsheet extraction works in Lido

1

Upload or connect your source

Drop PDFs directly, connect a watched folder, or point Lido at an email inbox or cloud drive. New files are picked up and queued automatically.

2

AI reads and extracts

Lido identifies document structure, headers, line items, tables, totals, and maps each field to your output schema. No zones to draw, no templates to maintain.

3

Download clean spreadsheet data

Output lands in Excel or CSV with the columns you defined. Rows are clean, values are typed, and the data is ready for your ERP, database, or analyst.

Try it free

See this workflow run on your documents

Upload a batch and get structured output in minutes.

Why copy-paste extraction breaks at scale

The manual data entry trap

Your team opens PDFs, reads the values, and types them into a spreadsheet. One invoice takes two minutes. A hundred invoices take three hours. When volume doubles, you either hire more people or fall behind. Every keystroke is a potential error, and there is no audit trail connecting the source document to the output row.

Lido runs the extraction for you

Define your output schema, vendor, date, amount, line items, whatever you need, and Lido extracts from every document automatically. Scanned, native, handwritten. You review the output; you stop doing the extraction. The same configuration runs on every future batch with zero additional setup.

Lido vs manual extraction and free tools

FeatureLidoManual / Free tools
Batch-extract from hundreds of PDFs at once
Reads scanned and image-based PDFs (OCR)
Handles any document layout without templates
Confidence scores and mismatch flagging
Output maps to your custom schema
Open a PDF and read the data yourself
Core workflow

Extraction that runs while you sleep

Set up your schema once. Lido extracts from every new document that arrives, around the clock, without anyone touching it.

Common use cases

Accounts Payable

Extract invoice line items into your ERP

Pull vendor name, invoice number, date, amounts, and line-item detail from every vendor PDF. Output feeds directly into your ERP or approval queue with no manual keying.

Healthcare

Extract EOB remittance data to Excel

Pull CPT codes, allowed amounts, denied amounts, and patient responsibility from Explanation of Benefits PDFs. One run covers hundreds of payers and form layouts.

Logistics

Convert shipping documents to structured data

Extract shipper, consignee, weight, commodity, and reference numbers from bills of lading, customs entries, and packing lists into your TMS or spreadsheet.

Finance

Pull bank statement transactions to reconciliation sheets

Convert PDF bank statements, any bank, any format, into transaction rows with date, description, debit, and credit columns ready for reconciliation.

Stop extracting data by hand

Try Lido free. Upload a batch of PDFs and get a clean spreadsheet in minutes.