Teaching Your AI to Read: Extracting Key Facts from Scanned Documents and PDFs

Tired of drowning in case files? As a solo PI, manually sifting through court documents, bank statements, and scanned reports steals your most valuable asset: time. AI can automate this triage, but only if you instruct it like an investigator. The Core Principle: Ask an Investigator’s Question The single biggest mistake is feeding a document to an AI with a generic command like “summarize this.” Instead, you must prompt it with a specific, investigative question. This transf