u/trainsatr

I work in a research lab, and need to digitize a few hundred pages of spreadsheets. All spreadsheets are printed, not handwritten, but the original files are lost. The images have the same general schema, but the columns aren't always in the same order, and some pages have columns that others don't. Some pages are fainter, but still readable; some are slightly slanted. The end goal is for all pages to be compiled into one master spreadsheet, with the same schema. What's the best (and cheapest) tool for this?

I have tried chatgpt (best so far, but still slow/made mistakes), Google Document AI (not that great), and ParseExtract (great, but more limited in scope).