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Invoices, Contracts, Receipts—Same Inbox? Classify PDFs in Make and Route by Type

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You get a mix of PDFs—invoices, contracts, receipts—and you need them sorted by type so the right workflow handles each one. Doing that by hand doesn’t scale.

The fix: Define your classification rules on PDF4me.com (using regex or JavaScript expressions), then run the same classification inside Make: download a PDF (e.g. from Dropbox) → PDF4me Classify Document → use the returned Class Name to route or organize. Classification lives in your PDF4me account; Make just sends the file and gets back the class.

This guide has two parts. Part 1 is on PDF4me.com: where to go and how to set up your first class (e.g. pdf4me_invoice with a regex like invoice(.*)). Part 2 is on Make: a two-module scenario (Dropbox Download a File → PDF4me Classify Document) and how to read the result. All steps and screenshots are fact-checked from the PDF4me and Make UIs.