Invoice Extraction Pipeline

The problem

A staff member spent most of each morning opening supplier invoice PDFs and retyping line items, quantities and rates into a spreadsheet. High volume, entirely mechanical, and error-prone in exactly the way that produces disputes with suppliers three weeks later.

What we built

Invoices land in a watched inbox, get parsed to structured line items, and are written straight through when extraction confidence is high. Anything below the threshold — a scanned copy, an unusual layout, a smudged total — goes to a review queue where one click confirms or corrects it. Accuracy is logged per supplier, and drift raises an alert rather than quietly corrupting a quarter of data.