Extracting Timesheet and Work-Hours Data from PDFs and Scans
Turn paper timesheets, scanned time cards, and PDF work-hour reports into a structured spreadsheet for payroll or billing.
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- Why timesheets are tedious to process manually
- Timesheets come from everywhere, a scanned paper card, a PDF exported from a scheduling tool, a photographed sign-in sheet, and rarely in a format that plugs directly into payroll. Re-typing hours, dates, and employee names for a whole team every pay period is slow and error-prone.
- Datafromfile's **Timesheet** category is built to extract exactly this kind of record: a repeating table of dates, hours, and names.
- What gets extracted
- Step-by-step
- 1. Upload the timesheet, PDF, photographed image, or scanned document all work. 2. Choose the category that matches the content (Timesheet, or a generic table if your layout is unusual). 3. Datafromfile extracts the rows into an editable table in the workspace. 4. Fix any misread hours or names directly in the table, useful for a hard-to-read handwritten entry. 5. Export to Excel or CSV to import into your payroll or invoicing system.
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