How to Extract Data from Product Catalogs and Price Lists
Turn supplier PDF catalogs and price sheets into structured spreadsheets, SKUs, prices, and variants extracted automatically and ready for Shopify, Amazon, or your ERP.
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- The problem with supplier catalogs
- Wholesale price lists and product catalogs almost never arrive as clean data. They show up as multi-page PDFs, scanned sheets, or Excel files with merged header cells and inconsistent columns, and re-typing them into your inventory system by hand doesn't scale past a handful of SKUs.
- Datafromfile's **Catalog / Sheet** extraction mode is built for exactly this: it reads a supplier PDF or spreadsheet and returns a structured table of products, ready to edit and export.
- What gets extracted
- For a typical catalog or price list, Datafromfile identifies:
- Step-by-step
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