Invoices are important documents. They are confirmation that a payment has been made for a product or service. They are also an important document for managing the accounts for a company or an individual. Invoices have very distinct characteristics which are used and reused frequently by administrators, managers, analysts and auditors. These are: invoice #, amount, vat (tax)numbers, line item descriptions or total values. When aggregated they tell a story about customer and supplier relationships and are pivotal for carrying out analysis. A common way for invoices to be conveyed from one party ..read more

Background Fox Accountancy is an accounting firm based in Essex, United Kingdom. It offers various services such as payroll, management accounts, budget forecasting, bookkeeping and business planning. Recently we spoke to Chris, a chartered accountant and the business owner of Fox Accountancy, to get a better insight into how PDFTables helps him process financial statements. Fox Accountancy receives financial documents such as income statements, invoices and balance sheets from its clients. The team uploads these PDFs to PDFTables.com for conversion to CSV or Excel and these are transferred i ..read more

What is the Earliest Return Date and why is it important for logistics companies? Earliest return date a.k.a. earliest receive date (ERD) is an essential piece of information for the logistics industry which moves containers from A to B. The ERD is the popular acronym for the cut-off date and time for a container to be at a port or train depot, ready for loading. If a container arrives too early, there may no place for it to be stored. If it's too late, it will miss the transport window. A mistake in missing the ERD can be expensive in terms of committed delivery dates, operational efficiency ..read more

We know that we can live more sustainably. We can achieve this in myriad ways in our private and professional lives. We make choices in the how we interact with services like internet banking and also in how we shop. For example we've become acutely aware of the damage plastic can do to the environment, so legislation that makes us pay for plastic bags has encouraged many of us to change behaviour. Maybe it's good to remind ourselves what sustainability actually means? A good definition we have found says 'sustainability is a societal goal that broadly aims for humans to safely co-exist on pla ..read more

Big data refers to data collections that are too massive or complex for typical data-processing technologies to handle. Financial services, healthcare providers, governments, and insurance companies are all industries that use big data. Self-service solutions, predictive maintenance optimization, and production management automation help manufacturers increase production efficiency and understand their real-time data. Businesses utilise big data analytics to improve business choices by identifying patterns and trends in massive amounts of customer data. Big data provides firms with important ..read more

The importance of data in the logistics and transportation industries Whether by plane, truck, ship or train or as they are also known, rail, road, maritime and air shipments, the transportation of goods has become more important to all of us. At PDFTables.com we've been asking ourselves about the role that data play in the transportation and logistics industries. Data are collected on how goods travel to different cities and continents, the routes, the time frames; the methods of transport form part of the process to provide the best possible transportation service and can also help inform po ..read more

What exactly is HIPAA and what does it provide? HIPAA is short for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPAA is a U.S federal regulatory standard that protects patients in the U.S healthcare system from disclosing their information without consent or knowledge to the patients. Key patient information includes: the timeline of hospital visits the demographic regions of patients experienced physical or mental injuries treatments required by patients in the past, present & future It is important that the patient knows their rights when it comes to protecting th ..read more

Why do humans still have a burning desire to convert bank statements into Microsoft Excel or other analysis tools? There are many reasons why we convert PDF bank statements to MS Excel, Google Sheets or other spreadsheet software. A good example is for tracking spending habits. Microsoft Excel makes it easy to delve into spending from previous months or years and to see if it's possible to make savings, decide on what expenditure items to cut back on. People sometimes want to carry out analysis in Microsoft Excel for error checking. It's becoming more frequent for banks to offer data in machin ..read more

In this blog post we will be showing you how to change the delimiter in a CSV file using Python. A CSV (comma-separated values) file is a text file that uses commas to separate values and can be opened in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, a text editor and more. There may be a time when you need to change the delimiter in order to, for example, import your file into an application. In this example we will be changing the delimiter from a comma to a semicolon. Before we start If you don't have Python installed on your computer, follow steps 1 and 2 of blog post Convert PDF to Excel, CSV or XML wi ..read more

The World Health Organization are releasing daily Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports in PDF format. Here at PDFTables, we have made each situation report freely available in Excel and CSV formats in a GitHub repository. To access the converted reports, please click here. This repository page will be updated regularly. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us ..read more