The invisible part of data entry in a factory piles up on the purchasing and accounting desks. Supplier invoices arrive by e-mail as PDFs, delivery notes come through the door on paper, product specifications arrive in each customer's own format, and customs and letter-of-credit paperwork sits in a separate folder. Fields such as dates, amounts, VAT, quantities, units, batch numbers and tariff codes inside these documents are read by a person and typed into the system by hand. Most days the work keeps up; in busy weeks and holiday periods entries fall behind, and when they do, stock and cost figures drift away from reality.
Automating this is not, as often assumed, simply a matter of running documents through a scanner and converting them to text. Conversion to text is only the first step; the real challenge is picking out which number in that text belongs to which field. Every supplier lays out its invoice differently, the same supplier changes its template over time, line items spill onto the next page, and discounts and freight appear sometimes within a line and sometimes as separate lines. A setup that relies on fixed coordinates starts silently producing wrong data at the first template change — and that is exactly what makes it dangerous, because the error is invisible.
That is why the layer we build does three things together: it parses the document along with its layout, validates the extracted fields against your own records, and routes any field it is not confident about to a person for approval. Validation is where the safety of the whole process lives: the machine checks that line totals match the grand total, that the VAT matches the rate, that the supplier and product match your master records, and that quantities agree with the order and the delivery note. Records that pass these checks are posted to the ERP; records that do not land in an approval queue, with the reason each item was flagged shown on screen.
The work described on this page does not replace accounting judgement. The software carries the data from the document accurately and keeps proof of where it came from; which entry goes to which account, whether an expense is accepted and what goes into a filing are decisions for your accountant and finance lead. Likewise, extraction accuracy is never flawless out of the box in any deployment; our commitment is not zero errors, but errors that are visible and catchable. That is why every field below the confidence threshold goes to a human, and every record remains traceable back to the page of the document it came from.