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Extracting data from unstructured files is another use case Anthropic names directly — and it's where Cowork shines. You've got a pile of PDFs, scanned receipts, and half-typed notes, and you want one clean table. Cowork can read across all of them and pull the fields you care about into a spreadsheet.

Connect the folder holding the documents, then tell Cowork exactly which fields you want and where to put them:

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ProDocument and file workflows

Extract data from messy documents

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Connect the folder holding the documents, then tell Cowork exactly which fields you want and where to put them:

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Document and file workflows

Organize and clean up files4m
Extract data from messy documents5m
Produce a report or deck5m
Module 3 recap2m

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