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Why you should use this

Automating utility bill capture data extraction can dramatically streamline your accounting processes, making it easier to manage, analyze, and report utility bills information. Lido's PDF importer tool allows for quick data conversion of utility bills, ensuring that all entries are accurately reflected in a spreadsheet format suitable for processing and analysis. This reduces the administrative burden and minimizes errors associated with manual data entry.

How it works

Automating data extraction from utility bills to a spreadsheet has never been easier with Lido's OCR utility bills tool. Either draw a box around the section of the utility bill document you want to add to your spreadsheet, or copy all of the utility bills (including multiple pages) at once to a spreadsheet.

Upload a utility bill OCR PDF to Lido

Use Lido's PDF Import Tool or the built in Google Drive connector and select the utility bills you want to convert.

Use the PDF importer or EXTRACTTABLESFROMPDF formula

Either draw a box visually around the section of the utility bills to extract, or use Lido's EXTRACTTABLESFROMPDF formula to pull tabular data from the utility bill PDF into Lido's spreadsheet.

EXTRACTTABLESFROMPDF(<drive-credential>,"path to file",<output cell>)

Export utility bill data to your spreadsheet

Use Lido's utility bill data extraction app to copy your unstructured or structured utility bills data into your spreadsheet.

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Tutorials to help you get started

Step-by-step instructions to guide you through setting up this automation in Lido.

Who should use this

This tool is ideal for small business owners, freelance professionals, and legal teams who use Google Sheets and regularly handle a high volume of utility bills. If you manage multiple client accounts and you need a quick, accurate way to translate utility bill data into a more manageable format, this automation is perfect for you. It's particularly valuable for those who need to maintain organized compliance records for easy access, reporting, and analysis purposes. Whether you are streamlining processes for automating data extraction from utility bills, or conducting reviews, converting your utility bills to Google Sheets with this tool reduces manual data entry and increases accuracy.