Have you ever been asked to convert a paper document to a computer file? When I was recently asked if I could do such a task, I was hoping that AI or OCR would be able to accomplish this task.
After scanning the document, my first attempt was to use OCR recognition in the PDF document. Unfortunately, that created multiple text boxes, making it difficult to copy/paste the text into a spreadsheet.
I then tried using ChatGPT to transcribe a screenshot of the page.
While Chat GPT was able to pull the information, it failed at putting it in the columns.
I then tried the Chrome Sider extension. Again, I asked it to extract the text into a table with columns for name, branch and war. I told Sider there should be three columns while I did not give ChatGPT that detail.
And sider pulled the information and created the three column table!
Thanks to SIDER, I was able to easily pull the text from the document and paste it into an Excel spreadsheet.
While Sider had some difficulty with the spelling of the names in the handwritten text at the end of the document, it was able to also create the table.
THANK YOU Sider for making this a relatively easy task!
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Interesting … will have to keep that in mind, though I don’t like Chrome. Wonder if that extension works in Edge (which supports some Chrome extensions)…
I became a ‘google’ person when they offered google for education tools free to schools. And I still use a lot of those tools as a retiree.
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