Documents & data
Document Processing AI Agent
AI document agent: extracts fields from invoices, contracts and acts, validates by rules and exports to your accounting system. Contested cases to a human, the rest automatically.
“We drown in invoices and forms, let’s recognize them” is a common entry into automation. But “load an image into a model and grab the fields” is a working demo and a poor production system. The document agent is built as a governed process: recognition, extraction, rule-based reconciliation and human control where the result is uncertain.
What it does
It receives a document from a channel (mail, portal, scanner), recognizes text and tables, extracts type-specific fields, classifies and reconciles against masters and accounting systems. Contested cases go to a manual queue, the rest is posted automatically. Every layer is testable and replaceable — unlike the “drop in, get out” black box.
Where the line is
Any automated pipeline produces errors; the question is whether you see them before they hit accounting. So human control isn’t an option but part of the contract: confidence thresholds, a manual review queue, per-field tracing. More on the engineering on the AI document processing page; extraction from unstructured text relies on vector search where meaning matters more than a template.
How the chain works
- 01Recognition (OCR) · OCR engine
Turns a scan or photo into text with coordinates and tables. On clean forms this alone is enough.
- 02Field extraction · mid model
Pulls dates, amounts, IDs and line items by description rather than a rigid template — works on heterogeneous documents.
- 03Rule-based reconciliation · deterministic code
Checks sums, the counterparty against the registry, number validity. Catches what can't be trusted automatically.
Integrations
+ any external API
Cost calculator
Estimate at a blended per-token rate (input+output). Exact cost depends on context length, number of calls and the share of manual review — we scope it to your process.
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