I work at a company that stores PDF documents in a remote location, and we currently enter data from these PDFs into Excel manually. I’m interested in finding a way to automate this entire process through Zapier, especially since we receive a significant volume of PDF files. Are there any free applications that can convert PDFs to Excel documents and work well with Zapier? Alternatively, could I develop a Python script within Zapier that retrieves the necessary data and saves it into an Excel file?
While Zapier doesn’t have a built-in feature to directly convert PDFs to Excel, combining it with third-party apps can be effective. For instance, you can utilize tools like PDFtoExcel or PDF.co through API integrations. These services offer a streamlined way to convert PDFs to Excel and can be triggered via Zapier. As for using Python within Zapier, you can indeed write custom Python scripts using the Code by Zapier feature. This would allow you to parse the PDF data using libraries like PyPDF2 or pdfplumber and then organize it into Excel using openpyxl or pandas. Although this requires some coding skills, it provides a tailored solution to fit your specific data extraction needs.