Hello,

I just accepted a job as a Data Entry Specialist for a telecommunications company and I am working in their regulatory department. I am looking to automate processes in my new role and I figured this is the right sub to ask.

I am tasked to read a wide array of Regulatory documents and update the data in company systems. I am essentially performing data scrubbing on company databases. The problem is that the documents are all in pdf format. Worst yet, some of these documents are essentially images in pdf format and some are quite old like from 30 years ago.

One example is site surveys done by different environmental consulting companies so the layouts and formats vary depending on time-period of the survey and the company that is doing it. This is just one type of document I am expected to handle.

There is no standardized format or layout of the documents I am reviewing.

Is there a way to automate this process?