Stop retyping supplier price sheets — Claude does it in minutes

**The Problem** You get an updated price sheet from your supply house once a month. It comes as a PDF. You either ignore it, manually type prices for an hour, or keep quoting from last quarter's prices. None of these work. **The Fix: Claude for Parsing Supplier PDFs Into Price Lists** Anthropic's Claude can read a PDF price sheet, extract every item and price, and hand you a clean spreadsheet — in under two minutes. No typing. No mistakes. **What It Is** Claude is a $20/month AI tool that reads documents, extracts structured data, and formats it however you want. Upload the PDF directly. No tech skills required. **How to Set It Up (20 minutes)** 1. Go to claude.ai and create an account. Upgrade to Pro ($20/mo). 2. Upload the PDF: Click the paperclip icon, attach your supplier price sheet. 3. Ask it to extract the data with this prompt: [YOUR PROMPT: Extract every product name, part number, and unit price from this price sheet. Format as a CSV table with columns: Item, Part Number, Unit Price. Include all categories.] 4. Copy the output into Google Sheets. Done. 5. Next month: re-upload the new PDF, run the same prompt, copy the new data over your old sheet. **Cost:** $20/month for Claude Pro. **Real Example: Plumber** Marcus runs a two-truck plumbing company in Phoenix. His supply house sends a 12-page PDF every month. He used to spend 90 minutes retyping prices. Now he uploads the PDF to Claude, gets a clean CSV in 90 seconds, pastes it into his sheet. His pricing is always current. He recoups the $20/month in labor savings within the first week. Quoting off last month's price sheet when suppliers raised rates is one of the quietest profit killers in the trades. This removes it.