It watches a shared folder, reads every submittal PDF the moment it lands, and appends a clean, structured row — spec section, item, type, contractor, date. Nobody re-types anything.
A folder watcher notices each new submittal PDF the instant it's dropped in the shared drive.
It extracts the spec section, item, type, contractor and date straight from the document.
A row is appended to the running Excel log — always current, never hand-maintained.