Seeking pricing feedback: PDF to Drupal automation with Claude AI
Hello community. I built an automation system for a Spanish magazine that processes PDF articles and publishes them to Drupal. Looking for feedback on what something like this should cost. Scope: - Processes ~40 PDF articles/month - Saves ~18 hours/month of manual work (30min → 2-3min per article) - Built with n8n (21-node workflow), Claude Vision API, Drupal JSON:API What it does: 1. Detects new PDF in Google Drive 2. Claude Vision extracts: title, author, section, lead, content, magazine issue, featured quotes 3. Transforms content to HTML, splits by H3 tags into separate sections 4. Maps PDF sections to Drupal taxonomies (built custom mapping logic with defaults) 5. Creates multiple paragraph entities in Drupal (one per section) 6. Searches for author, categories, section, magazine UUIDs in parallel 7. Creates complete article with all relationships 8. Moves file to completed/error folders, sends email notifications Technical challenges solved: - Dual taxonomy mapping (web categories vs print sections don't match 1:1) - Content splitting by regex for modular paragraphs (enables future image insertion) - Claude prompt engineering for consistent JSON output - Error handling with defaults and notifications - Parallel API calls to Drupal Development time: ~2 weeks (including Postman testing, prompt refinement, error handling) Current status: Tested with 3 PDFs, ready for production What would you charge for something like this? Trying to understand market rates for workflow automation + AI integration projects. Thank you very much!