We are launching Excelifier. Yes, naming is hard, but we strive to structure free-form documents into a structured format (e.g., Excel or JSON). Excel is kind of the de facto standard for structured data. It could have been JSONifier as well, but that doesn’t sound as good :)

Initially, we support PDF files (yes, we do OCR as well) and multiple types of documents (invoices, delivery notes, receipts, orders, etc.).

The service can be used via API, via email (organization-specific inbound address), or via our web app. While you wait for results, you can either poll our API or define a webhook where we will POST when we are ready.

The result is always in a predefined schema as Excel and as JSON. Usually, a one-page invoice PDF is converted within 40 seconds. Documents do not need any pre-defining; just send the PDF, and we will convert the file.

When you sign up for our service, we give you (as a free trial) €5 of credits to try out our service.

The basic use case (which is actually why we built this) is when a company needs to handle a PDF document (e.g., order confirmation) and compare it to some data they already have in their system (e.g., an order). From our point of view, current providers did not meet our expectations, so we built our own.

We hope this is something we didn’t build only for ourselves and that there are others who have struggled with the same problem :)