{
 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "pdfdodo",
 "name": "Pdfdodo",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "pdfdodo.com",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Something else",
 "summary": "Converts PDF bank statements, invoices and receipts, including scans and handwriting, into CSV or Excel tables with OCR, with an API for automated workflows; plans are metered by pages per month.",
 "best_for": "bookkeepers, accountants and small businesses that turn bank statements, invoices and receipts in PDF or scan form into spreadsheets a few hundred pages a month",
 "skip_if": "you need a full PDF editor rather than table extraction; you process far more than 3000 pages a month; or your documents are mainly in a language outside the six the FAQ lists",
 "honest_knock": "The refund rules contradict each other: the FAQ says no refunds of any kind, the terms promise refunds within 30 days of purchase. The yearly Solo card shows $20 a month beside $200 billed yearly, which cannot both be right, and no plan names its currency. Cancelling means sending an email rather than a button in the app.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$25",
  "entry_price_terms": "Solo · billed monthly, 300 pages a month, 15 MB per PDF",
  "from_price_usd_month": 25.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-16 in a browser on pdfdodo.com, monthly and yearly view of the pricing block; the cards show a $ sign without naming the currency) Four plans metered by pages analysed per month: Free $0 for 25 pages a month and 5 MB per PDF; Solo $25 a month for 300 pages and 15 MB per PDF; Startup $59 a month for 1000 pages and 15 MB per PDF; Business $99 a month for 3000 pages with no upload limit and priority support. Billed yearly the cards show Startup at $49 a month ($590 billed yearly) and Business at $82.5 a month ($990 billed yearly); the Solo card shows $20 a month next to $200 billed yearly, two figures that do not match each other (12 x $20 is $240). The page advertises 2 months free on yearly plans. One page is one credit. The FAQ says no refunds are given, partial or full, while section 8 of the terms says refunds are issued within 30 days of the original purchase.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-16",
  "source_url": "https://pdfdodo.com/"
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "(read 2026-10-16 in a browser on pdfdodo.com, monthly and yearly view of the pricing block; the cards show a $ sign without naming the currency) Four plans metered by pages analysed per month: Free $0 for 25 pages a month and 5 MB per PDF; Solo $25 a month for 300 pages and 15 MB per PDF; Startup $59 a month for 1000 pages and 15 MB per PDF; Business $99 a month for 3000 pages with no upload limit and priority support.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "(read 2026-10-16 in a browser on pdfdodo.com, monthly and yearly view of the pricing block; the cards show a $ sign without naming the currency) Four plans metered by pages analysed per month: Free $0 for 25 pages a month and 5 MB per PDF; Solo $25 a month for 300 pages and 15 MB per PDF; Startup $59 a month for 1000 pages and 15 MB per PDF; Business $99 a month for 3000 pages with no upload limit and priority support.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-16",
   "source_url": "https://pdfdodo.com/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Shoeboxed",
  "why": "Shoeboxed is in our dossiers too and also turns receipts into data, but it is built around a receipt archive, accounting sync and a mailed envelope of paper that people digitise; its Starter plan was $9 a month for 50 digital scans when we read it on 11 October 2026. Pdfdodo only extracts tables from PDFs and images into CSV or Excel, and meters pages rather than receipts."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/pdfdodo.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/pdfdodo-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/pdfdodo/",
  "vendor_site": "https://pdfdodo.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://pdfdodo.com?aff=6NyDVn",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "pdfdodo:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pdfdodo:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pdfdodo:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pdfdodo:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}