Your best insights are trapped in PDFs from 3 years ago. Here is how to get them out.
Every company has a "Junk Drawer."
Digitally, it is that Google Drive folder named Archive_2020 or Old_Contracts. It contains thousands of PDFs. You keep them because you "might need them," but you never look at them because they are impossible to search.
This is called Dark Data.
Gartner estimates that 55% of a company's data is "Dark"—collected, processed, and stored, but never used for other purposes.
The Opportunity Cost
Imagine you want to run a new marketing campaign targeting "Customers who bought Product X three years ago." If that data is only on the PDF invoice and not in a structured field in HubSpot, you can't run the campaign. You are blind to your own history.
The Bulk Migration Strategy
You don't need to manually open 5,000 files. You can use SCANNY AI to perform a "Digital Excavation."
Step 1: The Connect Connect a script to your Google Drive API. Target the specific folders you want to digitize.
Step 2: The Parse Send the files to SCANNY AI. Unlike simple OCR (which just gives you a wall of text), Scanny extracts structured Key-Value pairs.
Document Date: 2021-05-12
Customer: Acme Corp
Total: $12,000
Products: [Widget A, Widget B]
Step 3: The Backfill Push this clean data into HubSpot.
Create "Historical Deals."
Update "Company Properties."
Tag contacts with "Purchase History."
The Result: A Smart CRM
Suddenly, your HubSpot isn't just a tool for active deals. It becomes a database of your entire business history.
Legal: Find every contract with a specific liability clause instantly.
Sales: See exactly what a churned client paid 4 years ago before trying to win them back.
Finance: Audit historical revenue without opening a single spreadsheet.
Dig Up Your Gold
Your data is valuable. Stop hiding it in a folder.
🎁 Early Access Offer: We are offering Free Credits to Data Engineers and RevOps pros who want to run a bulk migration test. Connect Scanny AI to your archive and see what you find.
Make your history searchable.
👉 Claim your Free Credits: https://scanny-ai.com/
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