Turn a large quarterly PDF into short documents and requisitions
A commenter uses Claude every three months to convert a large PDF into many short documents, Excel requisitions and summary tables.
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- What they did
- The poster described a recurring work task they handle every three months: they receive a large PDF and use Claude in a regular chat window to turn it into many short documents, Excel-based requisitions, and summary tables. They said the key step was learning how to build a reusable skill for that workflow, while keeping the process manual because Claude was not given access to work drives.
- How it went
- They said the setup worked well enough to be mind-blowing for that quarterly job, but gave no counts, time savings, or error rates. They also said they had not yet gotten Claude to help with much else.
- Worth knowing
- The catch they mention is access: they could not give Claude access to their work drives, and they did not describe any Google Drive or OneDrive setup.
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I'm attaching a large PDF, [description, e.g. quarterly report]. Split it into short documents by [section or topic], pull the data into [Excel requisition format] and create summary tables of [key figures]. Finish by listing everything you produced and flagging any data you were unsure about.
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