Have been working on a website called Grabsheet (www.grabsheet.com) for the past several months with some friends who currently/did work in finance. We now have a few hundred users and have been getting some great feedback so far.
Background: We noticed that a decent amount of our time initially spreading numbers involved manually inputting data from tables into Excel. This wasn’t too bad for US companies on BamSEC, but particularly taking public filings from any other country or when using research reports, this could be a pain. We asked and looked around, and couldn’t find anything that seemed to quickly and securely take care of this conversion (there are a number of PDF to Excel converters online, but if you only needed a single table from a PDF or didn’t feel comfortable uploading an entire PDF to a website, the workaround was a hassle).
That’s why we built Grabsheet, where you can screenshot a table (or you can upload up to 50 at once!) and convert just that into Excel while you work on other things. You can save yourself from the data entry, and focus on setting up your spreadsheet or anything else. Grabsheet is secure, unlike some of the other free PDF converters, in that we give users control over how their data is used; we never collect data that you do not want us to.
If you have any suggestions or feature ideas, would love to hear them :)
TLDR; Built a website that takes images of tables and converts them into formatted Excel files in under a minute.
Thanks for posting, saving down to check out later
sounds cool, bumping for you.
Thanks! Let us know how it goes
Would definitely check this one out. Thanks for sharing
Thx for sharing, that sounds really useful. I will check it soon
Thanks! Let us know what you think
Why make the free trial sign up require your credit card info. Very annoying.
so you forget to cancel and they charge you
In our newest update, we've removed this - you can now sign up in seconds without any credit card details :) Happy holidays - Grabsheet Team
I'd imagine the vast majority of people on this website would see through that and then just not sign up because of the hassle/annoyance
Yeah generally I think full capability free trial is the best way to convert into premium, but limit by usage e.g. you can only do 50 actions or run 15 processes before being prompted to pay
Thanks for the feedback! We've listened and you can now sign up with no credit card required in seconds! Let us know how Grabsheet works out for you :)
What are people’s thoughts on this vs Able2Extract?
This works much better, have had a pretty decent experience so far
Sounds like a great value add for junior bankers. Do you have a video or something you could share which demonstrates this?
Thanks! We do, check out a 30 second video right here :)
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Let us know how your experience has been so far!
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interesting - does it also function with watermarked pdfs?
As long as you can see the underlying numbers, yes it should work just fine! You would just have the screen shot the table that you want to convert
Interesting - sounds like a helpful tool. While I couldn't use something like that for any sensitive info, a common use case of copying tables is from public PDF reports, so I might give it a try sometime
Absolutely! Let us know how it goes
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If I get downvoted, definitely OP, so take it as a validation of my post
If you aren't already I encourage you to utilize your Acrobat pro subscription first, you can save that picture as an image, open it in Acrobat PDF, and then convert that PDF to XLS
Now OP - if you tell me you have a neural network trained behind this to boost outcomes and its not just AWS Textract... that would be sweet. I'll use it.
This exactly. I’ve become the mf king of windows + shift + s and pasting into a doc->pdf->excel at this point
I’m sure there’s some script to automate this, but having it take 30 seconds is fine by me right now
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What did you build it in? How long did it take to develop? Just curious.
Can you add PDF to excel capability?
Thanks for the suggestion! We decided to initially focus on image to Excel as there're a number of free services out there for full PDF to Excel. However, if there're multiple tables in a PDF, you can upload multiple images at once to save you more time with Grabsheet :)
Let us know if that works for you, or there's a different workflow you had in mind!
This could quickly escalate to “this is great. Can you sign my master NDA so I can use it on all my deals?”
Congratulations. Looking forward to trying it out!
Let us know what you think :)
Just fyi, in case other people aren’t aware. For the vast majority of financials, you can just use Adobe acrobat pro to extract financials and paste special into xls.
Works for the vast majority of annual reports, private company filings (Uk and Europe include) and raw 10-Ks
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