• How to use Lido's Data Extraction Solution: The Basics

  🧾 How to Extract Data from PDFs into Spreadsheets with Lido 🎥 Watch the quick tutorial (2 min) If your team handles a high volume of PDFs — invoices, forms, receipts, or reports — you know how time-consuming and error-prone manual entry can be. With Lido, you can automate the entire process. This guide shows you how to extract structured data (like invoice numbers, vendor names, and amounts) directly into spreadsFeatured

• Adding AI Columns

  How AI Columns Work You can add any data field to the data extractor that doesn’t exist in the source file (e.g., Invoice Category, Expense Type, GL Code). These appear in your sheet but never need to be present in the uploaded document. Each AI column runs when a document is processed. Common examples of AI column uses: Classification – “Classify the expense descriptions into the closest of these 4 categories: food, gas, travel, other" Conditional coding – "If status column contaiPopular

• How to process documents stored in OneDrive

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• Post-Data Extraction: How to Push Data to Google Sheet

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• Super-powered Extra Instructions (i.e., Directives)

  Directives are deterministic instructions you add in the Extra Instructions section of your Data Extractor to fine‑tune extraction. Each directive has a specific syntax and must appear on its own line at the bottom of the Extra Instructions. File Extractor @parallel:true / @parallel:false What is this? Controls whether the extractor treats each page separately or processes the whole document as one unit. Use when @parallel:true: Each page stands on its owFew readers

• Adding context files to the data extractor

  You can upload external documents to give Lido more context about how your data should be extracted. This is useful when your extraction rules already exist somewhere else, or when you want to show examples instead of re-typing instructions. What Are Context Documents? Context documents are reference files that help guide how Lido interprets and extracts data from your PDFs, emails, or other inputs. Instead of writing long instructions in the prompt, you can simply attach: An eFew readers

• Automating the Data Extractor

  Automating the Data Extractor Automatically import files from Google Drive, OneDrive, or Email. You can automatically fetch new files from a connected Google Drive folder, OneDrive folder, or email. To automatically fetch new files from your connected source, turn on the Process Files toggle. Automatically process new files from connected drive folder When the Process Files toggle isFew readers