Best solution for reading scanned invoices with hundreds of different structures

Need help to put me on the right path towards the best solution for this:

We need to extract a per item data (Item Name/Description/Number, Amount) from hundreds of different scanned invoices (images) with varying structures.

Maybe just an advise on the general overview of the workflow and the UiPath technologies to be used would be a great help already. If there are also advises for external solutions that can be purchased, we are also open to that option (although I would like to try doing it on my own first to understand it better).

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Hey @kaze

For this kind of scenarios, you may need to go with Document understanding a capability of UiPath to understand documents and extract information from it.

There is a framework template for the same to perform the automation with ease including transaction management, human in the loop, exception handling.

Hope this helps.

Thanks
#nK

@kaze

For your scenarios, I guess Document Understanding is the right one since it has the capability to extract the data from different documents (scanned, .png, .tiff etc) using AI capabilities. Also, in DU there are different extractors available to extract the data from the docs

  • Intelligent Form Extractor : It is suitable until and unless the layout of the document and alignment of the data remains same. It is also capable to identify signature and handwritten fields

  • Form Extractor : It is similar to the above one but it doesn’t have the capability to identify handwritten or signature fields

  • Regex based Extractor : It is suitable for small use cases

  • ML Extractor : It is the most advanced one and is more suitable for the documents coming with higher volume or most unstructured formats

Use the below link for more info

[Intelligent Document Processing - Document Understanding | UiPath]

Hi @kaze , As already mentioned, We would Suggest for you to use Document Understanding Capabilities available with UiPath.

The scenario you have described, having different Varying Structural Documents, should be achievable more accurately using Machine Learning Models available in AI Center.

Narrowing down, the Document Understanding Model should be the Most suited for your case.

Unless, you have a definite number of Templates of the Documents that are to be processed, there might not be a better option.

However, if that is also the case, we could also either Integrate Abby Flexicapture or Form Extractor into your solution

@kaze , Yes. Similar Kind of cases have been dealt with AI Center Machine Learning Models,

Where we Train the Document Understanding Model, with Sample data sets of Documents present to Extract Tables or Simple Fields.

For the Training of the Model, we would have to Label the Data sets using the Data Labelling Feature of AI Center.

If you do start exploring the AI Center, you might be able to understand it’s different capabilities/Limitations.

However, We could assist you on moving further with it.

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I see. Thank you very much. I will try to explore this.

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