Make Invoices Searchable

Make Invoices Searchable in Adobe Acrobat — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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The moments that lead here

If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

Scan paper invoices and make them searchable so I can find specific transactions during sampling.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Scan the paper sales [invoices] for [month=May] into searchable PDFs, run OCR so invoice numbers…
Scan the paper sales [invoices] for [month=May] into searchable PDFs, run OCR so invoice numbers and amounts are searchable, and save them as [output=May_Invoices_Searchable.pdf] for sampling tasks.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I start sampling, make retrieval reliable — ensure OCR language is [language=English], fix…
Before I start sampling, make retrieval reliable — ensure OCR language is [language=English], fix skewed pages, run text recognition across the whole file so invoice numbers and totals are searchable, and create bookmarks by invoice number for quick access.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

AuditorAdobe Acrobat ProABBYY FineReaderalso: Scan Invoices to PDF

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