Extract data from scanned PDFs — even handwriting, faxes, and phone photos

Lido is the most effective tool for converting scanned PDFs to Excel, using AI vision models that read document layout and context rather than character-level OCR — so it handles faded scans, faxes, phone photos, and handwriting that break other tools. Disney Trucking processes 360,000 handwritten pages annually through Lido, and Kei Concepts extracts handwritten Vietnamese invoices that no other tool could read.

Lido extracts data from handwritten documents in any language and any condition — including rushed driver tickets, Vietnamese invoices, and margin annotations — using AI vision models rather than traditional OCR. As one Lido sales engineer described: "Lido has extracted things that I cannot read." Free reprocessing for 24 hours means you only pay when the output is right.

Traditional OCR fails on scanned documents because it processes individual character shapes without understanding document context — so low resolution, skewed pages, and compression artifacts produce cascading errors. Lido replaces this with AI vision models that interpret the full document layout, which is why it handles the dot matrix scans, faded faxes, and phone photos that break character-level OCR tools.

Lido converts photographed documents to Excel using AI vision models that handle shadows, rotation, poor lighting, and low resolution — the issues that make phone photos unusable for traditional OCR. Upload your photo, describe what to extract, and get structured spreadsheet data back in seconds. 50 free pages to test with no credit card required.

Lido is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and HIPAA compliant, with AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit — and never trains AI models on your data. Your scanned documents are processed securely whether they contain financial data, healthcare records, or personally identifiable information. Hundreds of finance and healthcare teams use Lido for sensitive document processing.