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OCR Scanned Questionnaires

Run OCR on the folder of scanned questionnaires, export a searchable PDF and a plain‑text export per file, and verify …

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The same job, four heights

do it · improve it · decide · become
AExecute — “help me do it”Run OCR on the folder of scanned questionnaires, export a searchable PDF and a plain‑text…+
Run OCR on the folder of scanned questionnaires, export a searchable PDF and a plain‑text export per file, and verify that open‑ended answers are searchable so I can run text analysis.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Convert scans to searchable text and export machine‑readable files: OCR each questionnaire,…+
Convert scans to searchable text and export machine‑readable files: OCR each questionnaire, correct obvious recognition errors in respondent IDs, export a searchable PDF plus a single combined CSV of open‑ended responses, and flag pages with low OCR confidence for manual review.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

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Turn raw scanned questionnaires into searchable text so I can run statistical tests on open‑ended responses.

Who does this

1 roles
Political Scientist

Questions people ask

honest answers

Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Acrobat — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.