OCR & Document Processing

OCR & AI Document Processing: Invoices, Forms & Contracts Read Automatically

Invoices, receipts, IDs, forms and scanned contracts turned into structured data — with human review where accuracy matters and straight into your systems where it does not.

Scanned invoices being converted into structured data by an automated processing pipeline

From Paper and PDFs to Clean, Checked Data

Every business has documents that someone types into a system by hand: supplier invoices, delivery notes, application forms, ID documents, expense receipts, signed contracts. It is slow, it is error-prone, and it is exactly the work modern OCR and language models are good at.

We build document pipelines that read PDFs, scans and phone photos, pull out the fields you care about, check them against your rules — does the total match the lines, is this supplier known, is the date plausible — and deliver clean data to your accounting, CRM, ERP or database. Anything uncertain is routed to a person with the document and the extracted values side by side.

What’s Included

What a Document Pipeline Includes

  • Invoice & Receipt Extraction

    Supplier, dates, line items, taxes and totals read from any layout, matched to purchase orders and pushed to Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or your ERP.

  • Forms & Applications

    Handwritten and typed forms digitised, with checkbox and signature detection and field-level confidence scores.

  • ID & KYC Documents

    Passports, driving licences and utility bills read and validated for onboarding, with data kept in your jurisdiction.

  • Contracts & Long Documents

    Key terms, dates, parties and clauses extracted and summarised from contracts, leases and reports, searchable afterwards.

  • Validation & Human Review

    Business rules applied to every document; anything below your confidence threshold lands in a review queue instead of your ledger.

  • Delivery & Integration

    Email inboxes, upload portals, scanners and folders as inputs; APIs, spreadsheets and your existing systems as outputs.

Benefits

What Automated Document Processing Gives You

  • Hours of typing removed every week, with entry errors caught by rules rather than by an auditor months later.
  • Accuracy you can measure — we report extraction accuracy per field on your own documents before go-live.
  • Works with the messy reality: skewed scans, phone photos, multi-page PDFs, mixed languages.
  • Sensitive documents processed in the region you choose, with retention rules you set.
  • Starts with one document type and one integration; grows from there.

Technologies Used for OCR & Document Processing

  • Azure Document Intelligence
  • Google Document AI
  • AWS Textract
  • Tesseract
  • OpenAI & Gemini models
  • Python
  • Node.js
  • Xero, QuickBooks & ERP APIs

We recommend the right tools for your goals, budget and team — never a one-size-fits-all stack.

Discuss Your Project

How We Work

Our OCR & Document Processing Process

  1. Discovery & Consultation

    We learn about your business, audience and goals, review any existing website and agree on clear success criteria.

  2. Strategy & Planning

    We define the sitemap, features, technology stack and timeline, so scope and budget are clear before work begins.

  3. UI/UX Design

    We design wireframes and polished, responsive layouts for your approval, focused on usability and conversions.

  4. Development

    We build with clean, standards-based code, integrate your tools and set up an easy-to-use content editor.

  5. Testing & QA

    We test functionality, speed, security, accessibility and SEO across browsers and devices before launch.

  6. Launch & Support

    We deploy, monitor and fine-tune your site, then provide ongoing maintenance and support as you grow.

FAQ

OCR & Document Processing FAQs

How accurate is OCR on invoices?

On typed invoices, key fields such as supplier, date, invoice number and total are typically read correctly well over 95% of the time, and validation rules catch most of the remainder. Line items on unusual layouts are harder, which is why uncertain documents go to a review queue rather than straight into your accounts.

Can it read handwriting?

Modern models read neat block handwriting well and cursive with lower confidence. We test on samples of your real forms first and tell you what accuracy to expect before you commit.

Where is our data processed?

Your choice. We can use cloud document services in a specific region, or run open-source OCR on your own server for documents that must never leave your infrastructure.

How long does a first pipeline take?

A single document type feeding one system — supplier invoices into Xero, say — usually takes two to four weeks including testing on your documents. Additional document types are quicker once the framework is in place.

Explore More

Technologies and services that work well alongside ocr & document processing.

  • Cloud Hosting & DevOps

    AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean setup, Docker and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Nginx tuning, monitoring, backups and cost optimisation.

  • Database Development

    Schema design, query and index tuning, migrations and search infrastructure across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch.

  • AI Integration & LLM Development

    Practical AI in your product — assistants, document understanding, search over your own content, and OCR or classification pipelines built with Python and modern LLM APIs.

  • Hosting, Server & DNS Management

    Nginx, Apache, Docker and cloud servers configured, secured and kept running — plus DNS, SSL and Cloudflare set up correctly the first time.

OCR & Document Processing Enquiry

Tell Us About Your Documents

The type and volume of documents, and where the data needs to go, are what we need to scope this.

  • Reply within 24 hoursA real person reviews every request.
  • Free consultationHonest advice, no obligation.
  • 100% confidentialHappy to sign an NDA.

What happens next?

  1. We review your requirements
  2. We reply with questions or a call slot
  3. You receive a clear, itemised proposal
1 Your project
2 OCR & Document Processing requirements

Documents

What documents need processing? (select all that apply)
What format do they arrive in? (select all that apply)

Integration

3 Budget & timeline
4 Your details

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