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Finance & Accounting

Accounts payable and reconciliation on autopilot: OCR scanned invoices, extract fields to Excel/CSV ledgers, split batches by invoice number, redact sensitive data, and merge into PDF/A archives.

Best for: Finance, accounting, accounts payable, audit

How to use

  1. 1Scan or import invoices and OCR them into searchable text
  2. 2Extract totals and invoice numbers into an Excel/CSV ledger
  3. 3Split by invoice number or merge into an archive packet
  4. 4Redact account data, number the pages and archive to PDF/A

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