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Even Amazon's Textract API has issues with common invoices I've received. It Would Be Nice(tm) if this were a solved problem, but it isn't yet. Several other
by bcrl 2y ago
Even Amazon's Textract API has issues with common invoices I've received. It Would Be Nice(tm) if this were a solved problem, but it isn't yet. Several other SaaS build on top of Textract and claim to do better, but the costs were unreasonable for the quantities of invoices I was processing compared to munging the raw data from Textract.
- thegabriele 2y agoWhat others SaaS? Thanks
- bcrl 2y agoSadly, I did not keep the notes on what I had found when I did the research. What turned me off of those services was that my out of pocket expense was going to be thousands of dollars to process around 1600 invoices. With AWS Textract the OCRed invoices cost under $20. I also tried the various open source OCR tools, but the error rate was way too high. Obivious faults like l or I in place of 1 in the middle of numbers. AWS Textract was pretty good with numbers, although it did stutter on the dates in a few invoices. For most of the invoices I was able to self-check the results as account balances and totals from month to month had to match. That made the end results from messy scripts extracting to CSV reasonably trustworthy.
- thegabriele 2y agoDid you try the Azure "invoice model" AI Document ?
- jazzyjackson 2y agoThanks for mentioning this, I hadn't come across it yet.