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by WillAdams 1030 days ago
What I really want to see is a tool which will open a scan of a check/invoice and review it to find:

- Invoice number --- it should resave the pixel image using that number as the file name - check amount and date --- this could be written out as a meta-file using the invoice number as a file name

that would let me automate pretty much the last aspect of my day job which is suited to automation which is not yet automated.
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disattention 1030 days ago
Why not use existing OCR/document extraction tools [0]? There are a number of options, and even a custom implementation is probably a reasonable side project given some standardized structure.

[0]: https://rossum.ai/lp/data-extraction

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WillAdams 1029 days ago
The structure isn't standardized --- it's a random check design placed on top of an invoice which may be printed from a wide variety of printers at some random scale, and possibly photocopied multiple times.
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tucaz 1030 days ago
Extracting data from PDFs can be done with Bing AI if you open it on Edge. It can’t operate on the files (save) though.
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