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Verification Statements: Parse PDF contents into more usable format #102

Closed NicoleGovvy closed 3 months ago

NicoleGovvy commented 5 months ago

From Dec. 2023 internal staff research. Have a way to parse PDF information from report into another, more usable format. Work with Business Area to determine what format we should use in our new system for verification statements. Could it be web forms instead of PDFs? Add the feature of e-signatures to prevent scanning? Use a fillable PDF? Note: we do have a word template for this - but they don't always use it correctly. Confirm: what problem is this trying to solve? See ticket #6 for related work.

*This could be a huge component of work and likely not possible for the MVP.

patriciarussellCAS commented 4 months ago

If I'm understanding this one correctly, it's referring to the PDF format of the verification statements that currently get uploaded through SWRS. We are unable to extract information from them so staff have to go through each one and cut/paste to excel/word to use! Flag for potential MVP feature.

NicoleGovvy commented 4 months ago

@patriciarussellCAS - exactly. This ties in with including verification done within the system so something to explore further.

patriciarussellCAS commented 4 months ago

Added Attention to business area tag so we can confirm what is required for verification, what does the statement look like, how big are these files? To flag for Munish to understand storage capacity for uploads.

NicoleGovvy commented 3 months ago

Would be helpful to actually see a statement.

rdromey commented 3 months ago

Closed as not technically possible. Can't parse PDFs accurately, technology does not yet exist for this.