Extract text from PDFs sent over WhatsApp automatically

Pulls the text out of any PDF someone sends you on WhatsApp, ready for review or further processing.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsDocument Processing & OCRSecurity & Compliance
Connects
WhatsAppAWS S3AWS Textract

The problem it solves

When customers or partners send you documents over WhatsApp, someone has to open each PDF and manually retype or copy the important details. That's slow, and it's easy to mistype numbers or miss information along the way.

Who it fits

Businesses that receive documents like receipts, contracts, or forms through WhatsApp and need the text digitized.

How it works

  1. A WhatsApp message containing a PDF is received
  2. The PDF is downloaded and uploaded to secure cloud storage
  3. AWS Textract reads the document, including scanned pages
  4. The extracted text is compiled into a clean, ordered output
What you get

Pages of text you don't have to retype

You get the text pulled from every PDF sent to you, so information from receipts, contracts, and forms is ready to search or file away.

What you get

A clean, readable text version of any PDF document sent through WhatsApp.

What you need

A WhatsApp business messaging account and an AWS account with S3 and Textract access.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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