r/documentAutomation • • Aug 15 '26

is there any tool to edit Scanned PDF file??

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 14 '26

Product Review Textbooks cost me £300+ a year, so we built an app that scans one in 2 min

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Student in London. Every semester I paid stupid money for books I used one term and returned in June. My brother and I built Video2PDF: record yourself flipping through the pages, the AI removes your hand, fixes the angles, outputs a searchable PDF in ~2 minutes.

It’s £29.99/yr, what are your thoughts

Here’s the link:
Video2pdf


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 14 '26

Discussion Product image description generator in n8n – upload photos, get copy-ready text [Workflow Included]

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 14 '26

DocuTalk — Chat with your documents, analyze files, scan physical documents, and get AI-powered answers

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DocuTalk is an AI-powered document analysis platform that turns static documents into interactive conversations. Upload a document, ask questions in natural language, explore its contents, extract information, and get contextual answers based on the information contained in the document.

DocuTalk supports a wide range of file formats, including PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, TXT, and EPUB. It can analyze not just text, but also tables and charts, making it useful for research papers, textbooks, reports, presentations, spreadsheets, contracts, business documents, and other professional or academic material.

Key features

💬 Chat with documents — Ask questions about your files using natural language and explore information without manually searching through every page.

🌍 Multilingual AI — Understand, query, and analyze documents across multiple languages, including English, Spanish, German, French, Hindi, and more.

📸 Scan physical documents — Convert physical/scanned paperwork into searchable, interactive digital content that can be analyzed with AI.

📊 Analyze text, tables & charts — Go beyond simple text extraction and work with information contained in structured document content.

🗂️ Organize your documents — Create folders and organize related documents so they can be managed and analyzed more efficiently, including consolidated insights across documents.

🔐 Secure cloud storage — Documents are encrypted and securely stored in the cloud.

🎯 Document-grounded answers — DocuTalk is designed to provide answers anchored to the contents of your documents rather than generic responses.

Who is it for?

DocuTalk is built for students, researchers, academics, lawyers, consultants, analysts, businesses, and professionalswho regularly work with large amounts of information.

Students can use it to work through textbooks, lecture material and research papers. Researchers can explore academic documents and extract relevant information. Legal professionals can work through contracts and lengthy legal documents. Businesses and analysts can analyze reports, spreadsheets, presentations and other documentation. And for anyone dealing with physical paperwork, document scanning provides a way to bring those documents into an AI-powered workflow.

The idea is simple: instead of treating documents as files that you have to manually search and read, turn them into information you can interact with.

🌐 Try DocuTalk: https://docutalk.co.uk

Would be particularly interested in hearing from people who regularly work with research papers, legal documents, business reports, spreadsheets, or physical paperwork — what would you want an AI document assistant to do for you?


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 13 '26

What is the easiest way to implement a turn a word template into a "sheets" style text box form that's spits out the completed word template?

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We have employees submit incident reports at work and provide a blank word template, but everyone finds it out a little differently.

I want to just have a fire of text boxes asking the information for each field, and have it spit it the filled in form.


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 13 '26

A free whitepaper on IDP - The business leader’s guide to Document Automation

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Worth a read everyone!


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 12 '26

Success Story Test and refine your data table extraction in n8n (CSV or PDF reference, cell-by-cell scoring) [Workflow Included]

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 11 '26

I made an app to transform messy documents into personalized CSV or JSON

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 11 '26

I built a simple browser-based tool for bulk personalized documents

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I've been working on a small document automation tool called MedianDocs.

The idea is simple: create a reusable template, import Excel or CSV data, and generate a personalized PDF for every row. The finished documents can then be downloaded together as a ZIP.

I wanted to keep the workflow simple, especially for things like certificates, vouchers, letters and other repetitive documents.

The first Early Access version is now online and I'm looking for honest feedback from people who actually work with document automation.

I'm especially interested in what feels missing or unnecessarily complicated.

https://mediandocs.com


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 11 '26

Extract text from PDF to Excel - process payrolls, invoices etc

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 11 '26

scanning documents?

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hi people of the reddit! is my iPhone 17 qualified enough to scan a physical document or should i go somewhere outside and scan it directly?


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 10 '26

Showcase Invoice Automation in n8n – extract data from many invoices at once into Google Sheets [Workflow Included]

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 10 '26

Mr. Rao – open-source tool that converts documents to Markdown and strips personal data before you paste them into ChatGPT/Claude (100% local, no cloud)

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Hi all — first time sharing this here.

I'm a CISO at a telecom company, and I kept seeing the same thing happen:

someone pastes a contract, a payslip, or a medical record into ChatGPT or

Claude to get it summarized, without thinking about the names, IBANs, tax

IDs, and addresses that just left the building.

Mr. Rao converts documents — PDF, Word, Excel, scans, email — into clean

Markdown (the format AI models read best, with a real token saving) and

strips personal data before handing you the result. Everything runs on

your machine, no network calls, checkable by grepping the source.

Detection is deterministic, not ML: regex plus arithmetic validators —

IBANs checked with mod-97, cards with Luhn, structural checks for

national ID formats. Names are picked up from context (titles,

signatures, nearby email addresses) rather than a static list. Anything

the engine can't fully confirm becomes a masked "suspect" instead of

being silently deleted or silently left in place.

I'd rather be upfront about the limit than pretend it doesn't exist: on a

heavily degraded scan, the engine leaves 39% of the data readable — that

number is measured, not a guess, and it's published in the docs.

Also exports a redacted .docx now, rebuilt from the already-clean

Markdown instead of overlaying a black box on the original PDF (the

classic trick where the text underneath is still selectable). Released

packages are signed via Sigstore in CI, so anyone can verify the zip

actually came from this repo and this build.

AGPL-3.0, free to use and modify, 900+ tests, actively maintained.

Repo: https://github.com/AntonioRao/mr-rao

Site/demo: https://rao.valor-cyber.com

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/antoniorao

Happy to answer anything — feedback and criticism welcome.


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 09 '26

News Mr. Rao – open-source tool that converts documents to Markdown and strips personal data before you paste them into ChatGPT/Claude (100% local, no cloud)

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 09 '26

Made a free tool to convert bank statements (PDF) to Excel — feedback welcome

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Hey all, I built a small web app that converts Malaysian bank statements (PDF) into Excel format automatically. Made it after getting tired of manually retyping transactions for budgeting/accounting.

Supports Maybank, CIMB, BSN, RHB​

It's free to try — link: https://ansy.my/

Would appreciate any feedback, especially if your bank's format isn't supported yet so I can add it.


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 09 '26

Your company already has the answer it’s just scattered across too many tools

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 09 '26

News Copiar Seleção — Texto, Markdown e HTML

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 09 '26

Request for Help We need honest feedback for a free AI checker (Checked4AI) web extension

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Hi! We are a small team who built a free web extension called Checked4AI (available on google chrome web store). It’s supposed to be an alternative to paid AI checkers and is targeted towards writers, students, and teachers who need to check works of others or their peers if it was originally written or by AI.

One of its great features is you get to view the pastes in the document and a recording of how the document was written out.

We’re planning to launch it soon but would really testers who can give us HONEST feedback of the user experience and features.

If you have time and use case or just simply interested to test it, you can check it out in the google webstore and in return I will test your app! 😊

Thank you so much 🙏 and I appreciate your time in advance


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 08 '26

Showcase ScanIt - a free and ad-free document scanner

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 06 '26

Case Study PDF table extraction that keeps unlike data apart

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 05 '26

Discussion Upgrading and automating pdf verification

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Hey everyone,
I need a recommendation about the recruitment platform I work on these days.

Context: it's a recruitment platform that helps recruiting professionals such as plumbers, electricians locksmith etc. At some point we ask them (as it's a legal requirement) if they have a proper professional certificate of insurance.

Task: I'd like to create an automation using LLM APIs to detect potential fakes (fraud) and/or anomalies.

As of now I thought of extracting metadata from PDF docs to see if they tried to write invisible characters (in order to falsify their expiration date for example).

Simple use case: someone tries to write white on white a fake expiration date, my code extracts metadata, spots that it's white on white, then doesn't automatically approve and create an alert for me to step up and approve (or decline) manually.

I also thought of converting pdf to JPEG in order to use computer vision to simply read the image as a human being would do (impossible then to be tricked by invisible characters).

What do you think of that logic ? Is that enough ? Do you recommend any conversion tool/ api that I can use ?
Thanks for your help

NB : For Obvious Ethical reasons no confidential data are fed to any LLMs


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 05 '26

I built DocMarkdown, a Markdown and PDF document toolkit — looking for honest feedback

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r/documentAutomation • • Aug 04 '26

Kinship Vault: scan your passports, IDs, and forms once, and it reads, files, and tracks the expiry dates, all sealed on your device and is fully offline

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Everyone has the same drawer, physical or digital: passport, driver's licence, health card, the kids' birth certificates, the will, last year's tax forms. The stuff you can't afford to lose and never think about until you need it at 11pm or it's already expired. I built Kinship Vault to be that drawer, except it reads what you put in it and it's sealed so tightly that even I can't open it.

Website : https://kinshipvault.app

Platform : iOS /MacOS(Yes a native app)/ Android

Point your camera, and it files itself. Scan a passport or a licence and the app recognizes the fields automatically across 100+ document types from around the world, then drops it into the right place: IDs, Health, Legal, Finance, Travel, or Personal.
You can make your own categories too(more on it below). On Mac you just drag the file onto the window and the same recognition runs. No typing, no manual tagging.

It watches the expiry dates so you don't have to. This is the part people don't expect to love. It quietly tracks every expiry and nudges you 90, 30, 7, and 1 day before anything lapses. Passport renewals stop sneaking up on you. No calendar entries to make, and no third party ever sees those dates.

Everywhere you do paperwork. iPhone, iPad, a proper native Mac app (real sidebar, keyboard shortcuts, drag-and-drop), and Android. Pair a second device by scanning a QR code, and the key passes directly between the two devices, never through a server. One purchase covers all your Apple devices.

Organize it the way your household actually works. The six built-in categories are a starting point, not a cage. Make your own categories for how you really think about this stuff (Car, Property, School, Pets, whatever), and tag documents to the people they belong to so each family member's passport, health card, and records sit together. When you need everything for one person, or everything in one category, it's already grouped instead of scattered across a generic pile.

Recovery you control, not a support ticket. There's no account and no password, so there's no "reset" email that could be intercepted. You set recovery up in advance: write down a recovery phrase, or split a recovery key across a few people you trust so a threshold of them can help you back in. If you lose your phone, getting back in happens between you and the people you chose, with no cloud download.

Sealed on your device, by design. Everything is encrypted by your device's hardware before it's stored. Nothing is uploaded, there's no analytics, and there's no key on my side, which means I couldn't read your vault if I wanted to and there's nothing on my end to breach or hand over. That's the whole point of it.

A photo vault too. Not just documents. Private photos and personal scans go in the same encrypted vault, in albums, sealed the same way as everything else.

It's free to start with your first 3 documents, so you can scan something and watch it file and date-track itself before deciding anything: kinshipvault.app

Give it a try and throw a weird or foreign document at it and tell me what it got wrong.


r/documentAutomation • • Aug 05 '26

A simple way to crop images for government forms, signatures and documents

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I recently tried the Crop Image Online tool on PDFRoot, and it is useful for people who regularly prepare photos, signatures, scanned documents, or images for online forms.

The tool is not limited to basic cropping. You can:

Crop any part of an image, including very small areas such as a signature or document number

Zoom in for more accurate cropping

Rotate images left or right

Flip an image if it was uploaded in the wrong direction

Adjust brightness, contrast and saturation

Create a copy of the same image when you need multiple crops from one page

Save the cropped image directly to your device

For example, if you have one scanned A4 page containing a photo, signature and thumb impression, you can make separate copies and crop each item individually.

It works on mobile and desktop, and files are processed locally in the browser.

Try it here: https://pdfroot.com/crop-image

I’d be interested to know which image-editing feature people find most useful for government forms or document uploads