Batch work

Forty documents, one operation, one afternoon gone

The job is never difficult. It is the same three clicks, repeated until the will to live is gone.

Do the whole set at onceUp to fifty files

Month-end is the usual shape: a folder of statements to convert, a set of receipts to turn into one document, a quarter of invoices to stamp with a date. Each is seconds of work multiplied by a number large enough to ruin the morning.

What batches well

The same operation, many files

Converting a folder, merging a set, marking a quarter's worth of documents.

Files of similar shape

Statements from one bank, invoices on one template. Similar inputs give predictable results, and you can check two instead of forty.

What does not

Anything needing a decision per file. If each document requires you to look at it and choose a page range, a batch only moves the clicking around — the deciding is the work, and it does not scale.