PDF OCR & AI Text Extraction Specialist (Searchable PDFs + AI)

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TYPE OF WORK

Gig

SALARY

Negotiable

HOURS PER WEEK

40

DATE UPDATED

Apr 18, 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

We are looking for a highly detail-oriented and reliable virtual assistant to take over our current PDF-to-Word conversion workflow.

**Main Focus:**
The primary purpose of this role is to extract text from PDF documents and deliver it in clean Microsoft Word format so we can easily copy and paste the words into AI tools (such as Grok) whenever needed.

**Exact Daily Tasks:**
- Use any OCR software (Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY, PDFelement, or equivalent) to make PDF documents fully searchable and text-selectable.
- Split the searchable PDFs into small batches of pages.
- Upload each batch to Grok AI (or any AI program) and request text extraction while preserving the original formatting, line spacing, line breaks, and layout.
- Copy the extracted text exactly as Grok returns it (including page labels like **PAGE X**, separators, and structure).
- Paste the final text into a clean Microsoft Word (.docx) document.
- Ensure 100?curacy — no words can be missed or changed. These are important court/legal documents.

**Requirements:**
- Experience using OCR software to convert scanned/image PDFs into fully searchable PDFs.
- Comfortable working with Grok AI (or similar AI chat tools) and following very specific formatting instructions.
- Extremely careful and patient with repetitive, high-accuracy work.
- Able to deliver clean, perfectly formatted Word files every time that are ready for easy copy-paste into AI.

This is precise, detail-heavy work. Speed is good, but **accuracy is critical** — we cannot have any missing or altered text.

If you are detail-obsessed and can follow instructions exactly, this is a great long-term position.

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