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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

The usual order: extract the invoice data, OCR the scans, merge the source pages, number them, then compress and send the packet.

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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