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The New Able2Extract Professional 20 is Here! 

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Able2Extract Professional 20!  

This latest version brings powerful new tools that will take your PDF productivity to the next level. With enhancements to popular features, we’ve packed it with capabilities to streamline your workflow and improve your PDF documents. 

Get ready to boost your efficiency with a new PDF repair feature, granular control over PDF compression, improved row data conversion, PDF forms to Excel conversion, an enhanced look, and better compatibility with macOS and performance improvements.  

Able2Extract Professional 20 is focused on giving you a better user experience and more precision with your PDF documents. 

Here’s a look into the features that make up the latest version of Able2Extract Professional 20! 

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How RPA Can Help Businesses With PDF Workflows?

Automating PDF tasks with Robotic Process Automation

You constantly hear about robots and AI taking over the workforce, and it isn’t any surprise. With digital workflows becoming more common, companies are looking to create “digital workforces” to perform the manual and repetitive tasks, faster and more accurately.

As a way to cut costs while scaling up, businesses are exploring their business automation options, and are gravitating towards Robotic Process Automation (RPA). 

What is it and how can it help businesses with digital and document workflows? 

Below, we take a look at RPA technology, what it does for businesses, and how you can start automating PDF tasks on a small scale.

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How to Extract PDF Tables to Excel with Precision

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Converting PDF to Excel is always a tedious task. With the large amount of rows and columns of data you have at your fingertips, the ability to work efficiently with your tables is important.

The custom PDF to Excel feature, as you well know, is aimed at giving you a user friendly way to gain as much control over the data conversion as possible.

You learned about Able2Extract’s Smart and Master templates feature last week, which helps the software to automatically identify and select specific table structures for quicker conversions into Excel.

Well, this week we’re going to unpack three other custom PDF to Excel features: Find Similar, Review Tables, and Show Highlights.

All three of these features further complement and assist the way in which you interact, navigate, and view selected table structures and the data which they contain.

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How to Batch Convert PDF to Excel with AI Technology: Master Templates (Part 2)

convert PDF to Excel with AI

Last week, we introduced you to Able2Extract’s new Smart Templates feature in the first part of this series, How to Custom Convert PDF to Excel with AI Technology: Smart Templates. This week, we’re going to cover Master Templates and how they work to further enhance your batch conversions.

We all know that batch converting multiple files to Excel at the same time is fast and efficient. Now, imagine having a number of PDFs and being able to automatically batch convert only the specific PDF tables you need. That would be a great time saver, indeed!  

The only problem to figure out, though, is how to select those tables from a number of separate files for batch conversion. The closest we’d be able to get using regular methods is to open all files, select the specific table in each one and convert one file at a time, which would be time consuming.

From a batch conversion perspective, though, automating the data selection makes more sense – and this is where a Master Template steps in.

This comes in handy if, for instance, you’re a retail manager who exports monthly reports on all in-store products for 2018 into separate PDFs (one for each month). When you need to analyze the data for the sale of a specific product over the entire year, a Master Template can help Able2Extract to identify, select and convert that specific dataset from all of your 2018 monthly PDF reports in one sitting.

To do this, though, you first need to train a Master Template. This is what we’ll cover in today’s post.

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How to Custom Convert PDF to Excel with AI Technology: Smart Templates (Part 1)

PDF to Excel with AI

As you well know, Able2Extract Professional 14 went above and beyond this year. It included the ability to sign PDF files, but it also came with artificial intelligence baked right in. The move may seem strange for a PDF converter, but it isn’t.

We’ve added AI technology to help tie both Able2Extract’s table selection capabilities and Custom Excel Templates closer together. We’ve made it so that you can boost and train those Excel templates into “Smart” and “Master” Templates. These templates can then be used by Able2Extract to automate how you select table structures for conversion.

When put into real-life context, this gives you more flexibility and power. You may have credit card statements in the PDF format, for example, where the table columns (date, amounts, transaction type) are all the same, yet the tables may vary in length (the number of transactions may differ from one table to the next) or occur on different pages.

In other words, you have the same table structure peppered across the PDF on non-consecutive pages. Selecting each of those tables for conversion becomes a challenge. It becomes an even more tedious task when extra text and other tables get in the way. This is what the new AI engine in Able2Extract aims to help you with.

In the first of this short two-part series, we’re going to show you how Smart Templates work. Let’s begin.

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