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Document AI — Beyond OCR

Can your OCR tell an invoice number from a phone number? We build the layer that does.

Plain OCR would just hand that text back. Document AI understands the document, extracts the fields that matter, validates them, and puts structured records into the system that needs them.

With an audit trail per document, and running on private models so confidential paperwork stays inside your boundary.

What we do
  • Scope: complex structured PDFs and real-time images shot on a phone — a food sample label, a nameplate, a handwritten form.
  • Custom AI agents built around your document types and fields, not a generic template.
  • Up to 98% accuracy, with exceptions routed to a person instead of silently guessed.
  • Database updates pushed straight into your structured database via webhooks.
  • Image-to-text conversion as the first step — OCR is where we start, not where we stop.
OCR vs. Document AI

OCR reads the text. Document AI does the job.

OCR (optical character recognition) turns an image into raw text — it doesn't know an invoice number from a phone number. Document AI is what we build on top of it: it understands the document's structure, extracts the fields that matter, validates them against your other systems, and hands off a structured record instead of a wall of text someone still has to read.

OCR alone

Text on the page, no structure. Someone still finds the invoice number, checks the total, and types it into the right system.

Document AI

The invoice number, total and line items land in your system already matched and validated, exceptions flagged for a person.

Where it works

Paperwork that is really a data-entry queue

Lab & test results

Instrument output and result sheets read into validated records, with the source image kept against every figure.

Invoices & purchase orders

Line items, totals and tax matched against the order and the goods received, with exceptions routed to a person.

Forms & applications

Submitted paperwork turned into records, including the handwritten fields nobody wants to key.

Contracts & agreements

Key terms, dates and obligations extracted into a register you can query, with the clause it came from.

Logistics documents

Delivery notes, customs paperwork and certificates reconciled against what was ordered and what arrived.

Accuracy is the product

A pipeline that is right 90% of the time creates a review job. We design for the accuracy your process can actually accept, and route the rest to a human.

How we build it

Extraction is easy. Trusting it is the work.

Every field carries a confidence score and a link back to the place on the page it came from. Low-confidence values go to review rather than into your system unnoticed. Validation rules catch what the model cannot know — totals that do not add up, dates out of range, values a lab would never report.

You decide the threshold. We show you what it costs at each level.

  1. 01
    Ingest

    Email, scanner, folder, portal or API — documents arrive the way they already arrive.

  2. 02
    Read & extract

    Layout understood per document type, fields and tables pulled with position retained.

  3. 03
    Validate

    Business rules, cross-checks against your own records, confidence scoring per field.

  4. 04
    Review what needs it

    A review screen showing the value next to the original image, so a check takes seconds.

  5. 05
    Into your system, with a trail

    Structured records written where they belong, every figure traceable to its source page. How we deploy privately →

Where we've applied it

One engagement, in detail

All case studies →
Food testing lab customer

Test results that stopped being retyped

Context
A food testing laboratory in Europe. Results are client-confidential and the lab works to accreditation requirements, so every reported figure has to be traceable.
The problem
Results arrived as images and were keyed into the lab system by hand. It was slow, it introduced transcription errors into reported data, and it put a person between the instrument and the record.
What we built
Automated reading of the result images into structured, validated records — field-level confidence, range checks against expected values, and the source image retained against each figure. Anything the pipeline is unsure about goes to a reviewer with the image alongside.
Deployment
Privately hosted models, no test data or client identifier leaving the approved environment, with an audit trail per document for accreditation.
Capabilities
Image to structured dataValidation rulesConfidence scoringHuman reviewPer-document audit trail

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