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This workflow follows the Form Trigger → Google Sheets recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.
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"name": "Invoice PDF Extraction with a Review Queue",
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"content": "## Upload and convert\n\nAn invoice PDF is uploaded and converted to raw text."
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"content": "## Extract and gate\n\nClaude returns strict JSON; each extraction is validated and scored before it is trusted."
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"content": "## Invoice PDF Extraction with a Review Queue\n\nFor finance and ops teams turning invoice PDFs into clean spreadsheet rows - with a human review queue instead of silent guesses.\n\n### How it works\n\n1. An invoice PDF is uploaded through a form\n2. Claude extracts the fields as strict JSON, writing 'unknown' instead of guessing\n3. A confidence gate validates the fields and scores the result\n4. Confident rows go to 'Log Extracted'; anything uncertain goes to 'Log Review Queue'\n\n### Setup steps\n\n- [ ] Add your Anthropic API key to 'Claude Extract Fields' (Header Auth, name: x-api-key)\n- [ ] Connect Google Sheets and set your spreadsheet ID in both Log nodes (tabs: 'Extracted' and 'Review Queue')\n- [ ] Test with one clean invoice and one blurry invoice\n\n### Customization\n\nAdjust the confidence threshold in 'Validate and Score', or add fields to the extraction schema in the Claude prompt.\n\nSetup time: ~10 minutes."
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"jsCode": "const _in = $input.first().json;\n// Parse Claude's JSON, validate required fields, compute a confidence verdict.\nlet data = null;\ntry {\n const raw = (Array.isArray(_in.content) && _in.content[0] && _in.content[0].text) ? _in.content[0].text.trim() : '';\n data = JSON.parse(raw);\n} catch (e) {\n return [{ json: { ok: false, reason: 'Claude response was not valid JSON', raw: JSON.stringify(_in).slice(0, 500) } }];\n}\nconst REQUIRED = ['vendor_name', 'invoice_number', 'invoice_date', 'total_amount', 'currency', 'line_items', 'confidence'];\nconst missing = REQUIRED.filter(k => !(k in data));\nif (missing.length) {\n return [{ json: { ok: false, reason: 'Missing fields: ' + missing.join(', '), ...data } }];\n}\n// Confidence gate: every field Claude was unsure about drags the doc to human review.\nconst conf = Number(data.confidence);\nconst needsReview = !(conf >= 0.85) || String(data.total_amount) === 'unknown' || String(data.invoice_number) === 'unknown';\nconst fileName = ($('Upload Invoice').first().binary?.Invoice_PDF?.fileName) || 'uploaded.pdf';\nreturn [{ json: { ok: true, needsReview, fileName,\n vendor_name: String(data.vendor_name), invoice_number: String(data.invoice_number),\n invoice_date: String(data.invoice_date), total_amount: String(data.total_amount),\n currency: String(data.currency), line_items: JSON.stringify(data.line_items).slice(0, 1000),\n confidence: conf, notes: String(data.notes || '') } }];"
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About this workflow
This workflow collects invoice PDFs via an n8n form, converts them to text, extracts invoice fields using the Anthropic Claude API, and then logs high-confidence results to Google Sheets while routing low-confidence or incomplete extractions to a separate review queue tab.…
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