From 4 Weeks to 45 Minutes: Designing a Document Extraction System for 4,700+ PDFs

# From 4 Weeks to 45 Minutes: How AI Cut Document Processing Time by 98% A company automated the tedious job of extracting data from thousands of PDF files—work that previously took a month of manual labor—by combining two AI tools to process everything in less than an hour instead. The solution cost significantly less than hiring people to do it by hand and shows that mixing different AI technologies smartly often works better than just using the newest, most powerful model available. This approach could help any business drowning in paperwork find a faster, cheaper way to digitize and organize their documents.