Stop opening PDFs one at a time. Upload hundreds at once, point it at your inbox or Drive folder, and watch the data land in a Google Sheet — without you lifting a finger.
1. Email auto-forwarding. Honestly, this one's my favorite. You set up a dedicated address, forward PDFs to it as they arrive, and Lido handles the rest — pulling data from every attachment and writing it straight to your Sheet. I had a client processing monthly bank statements from six different institutions. She went from a Friday afternoon of copy-pasting to forwarding an email and going to lunch.
2. Google Drive integration. Link a folder. Drop a PDF in. Structured data shows up in your Sheet within a few minutes. That's genuinely it. No scheduled jobs, no manual upload steps, no "did it run?" anxiety. The extraction engine watches the folder and reacts.
This works especially well for teams where multiple people are collecting documents — everyone drops files into the same shared folder and the Sheet just... fills itself in.
3. Bulk upload. Got a backlog? Drag and drop the whole pile — fifty PDFs, five hundred, doesn't matter. They process in parallel and the results consolidate into one Sheet. Last quarter we tested this with a batch of 300 vendor invoices. Took about four minutes. The alternative was two days of manual entry.
Here's the thing most people ask about first: will all my PDFs end up in one jumbled mess? No. You get to choose.
Most teams go with consolidated output — one Sheet, one row per document (or per line item if you're processing invoices). It's immediately pivot-table-ready. Filter by vendor, sort by amount, slice however you need. A few teams prefer one tab per PDF, which makes sense if you want the raw extraction visible alongside the summary. Either way, the structure is yours to pick.
Lido can also push the same data to Excel, CSV, JSON, or XML in parallel — useful when you've got a downstream system that doesn't talk to Sheets. You don't have to choose one format or the other.
Monthly reconciliation across five bank accounts. Quarterly invoice audits where the AP team is drowning. Tax season with a stack of K-1s that all look slightly different from each other.
In my experience, the teams who get the most out of batch processing are the ones who've been quietly suffering through "upload one, check it, upload the next" for months before they found a better way. The workflow doesn't have to be that slow.
When "one at a time" stops being a workflow and starts being a punishment — that's when batch matters.
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