Invoice OCR that extracts every field and line item
Vendor, dates, PO, every line item and the totals, from any supplier's layout: digital, scanned or photographed. Each value comes with a confidence score, and the lines are checked against the totals.
- 99% field-level accuracy on 250+ document types
- 99%+ touchless invoices at Valtatech
- SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA and GDPR
- Vendor
- Northeast Kitchen Equipment99%
- Invoice number
- NKE-992199%
- Invoice date
- 2026-08-1299%
- Line items
- 11 rows · 2 pages98%
- Total due
- $24,650.0099%
- PO number
- 5498Handwritten · to review
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Every field on the invoice, in one structure.
Header, parties, line items and totals. Dates come out in one format, whatever the vendor printed.
| Field | Extracted value | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor name | Northeast Kitchen Equipment | |
| Invoice number | NKE-9921 | |
| Invoice date | 2026-08-12 | |
| Due date | 2026-09-11 | |
| Payment terms | Net 30 | |
| PO number | 5498 (handwritten) |
| Field | Extracted value | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor address | 37 Bridge St, Westbrook, ME | |
| Bill to | Harbor Street Bakery LLC | |
| Ship to | 22 Thames St, Portland, ME | |
| Remit to | PO Box 3170, Portland, ME |
| Field | Extracted value | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Item code | WT-3072 | |
| Description | Stainless work table, 30 x 72 in | |
| Quantity | 2 | |
| Unit of measure | EA | |
| Unit price | 385.00 | |
| Amount | 770.00 |
| Field | Extracted value | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Subtotal | 23,250.00 | |
| Sales tax rate | 5.5% | |
| Sales tax | 1,278.75 | |
| Freight | 121.25 | |
| Total due | 24,650.00 |
Field names and the output schema are configurable.
Every line, from every page, in one table.
Page two's rows join page one's, the vendor's column names map to yours, and the math is checked before anything leaves.
| On the invoice | Cat. no. | Description | Qty | U/M | Unit price | Ext. price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In your data | Item code | Description | Quantity | Unit | Unit price | Amount | Line check |
| Page 1 | |||||||
| 1 | MX-60 | 60 qt planetary mixer | 1 | EA | 8,450.00 | 8,450.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| 2 | CO-2DS | Convection oven, double stack | 1 | EA | 9,050.00 | 9,050.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| 3 | PC-16 | Proofing cabinet, 16 pan | 1 | EA | 2,140.00 | 2,140.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| 4 | WT-3072 | Stainless work table, 30 x 72 in | 2 | EA | 385.00 | 770.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| 5 | SR-20 | Sheet pan rack, 20 tier | 3 | EA | 245.00 | 735.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| 6 | SP-FS12 | Full sheet pan, case of 12 | 4 | CS | 96.00 | 384.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| 7 | DS-06 | Dough scraper, stainless | 12 | EA | 6.50 | 78.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| Page 2 · no header row, joined to page 1 | |||||||
| 8 | IB-27 | Ingredient bin, 27 gal | 4 | EA | 142.00 | 568.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| 9 | SC-30 | Portion scale, 30 lb | 2 | EA | 109.00 | 218.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| 10 | CB-1824 | Cutting board, 18 x 24 in | 6 | EA | 34.50 | 207.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| 11 | INST-1 | Installation and start-up | 1 | LOT | 650.00 | 650.00 | Quantity × unit price = amount |
| Subtotal | 23,250.00 | Checked | |||||
| Sales tax 5.5% | 1,278.75 | Checked | |||||
| Freight | 121.25 | ||||||
| Total due | 24,650.00 | Checked | |||||
- 11 rows from 2 pagesOne table, in page order.
- Headers mappedExt. price becomes Amount, Cat. no. becomes Item code.
- Every line adds upQuantity × unit price = amount, on all 11.
- Lines = subtotal23,250.00 on the lines and on the invoice.
- Total dueSubtotal + tax + freight = 24,650.00.
Matching those lines to purchase orders and receipts is part of accounts payable automation, on the Enterprise plan.
What changes when nobody keys invoices.
Five suppliers, five layouts, one output.
No template per vendor. Pick an invoice to see what makes it hard and what comes out.
What makes it hard No lines between columns, and items grouped under category headings.
| Field | Extracted value | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Coastal Food Supply | 99% |
| Invoice number | 5520193 | 99% |
| Invoice date | 2026-08-09 | 99% |
| PO number | 5530 | 99% |
| Line items | 9 rows | 98% |
| Total due | $3,214.56 | 99% |
Field names and the output schema are configurable.
From here, invoices can be checked against your vendors, routed for approval and posted to your ERP: that's invoice processing software.
From PDF to structured data in four steps.
- 01
Receive
By email, upload or API, one invoice or a batch.
Collection agent - 02
Classify and split
Invoices, credit notes and statements, split and sorted.
Classification agent - 03
Extract
Header fields and every line item, each with a confidence score.
Extraction agent - 04
Review and send
Unsure fields to a reviewer, with the source line highlighted; the rest to your systems.
Review queue · API
“Docsumo's self-learning capabilities and the accuracy of the invoice line-item data capture made it stand out for us.”
Jussi KarjalainenFounder & Managing Partner, ValtatechEvery invoice, as the same JSON.
Header fields and line items in one structure, with the controls your security review will ask about.
SOC 2 Type 2Independently audited controls- ISO 27001Certified security management
HIPAAFor protected health data
GDPRFor EU personal data
Encrypted with TLS in transit and AES-256 at rest. Your documents are not used to train shared or third-party models.
How Docsumo protects your data →// POST https://your-erp.example.com/hooks/docsumo { "meta_data": { "title": "nke-9921.pdf" }, "data": { "Header": { "Invoice Number": { "value": "NKE-9921", "confidence": 0.99 }, "Total Due": { "value": 24650.00, "confidence": 0.99 } }, "Line Items": [ { "Item Code": { "value": "WT-3072", "confidence": 0.99 }, "Quantity": { "value": 2, "confidence": 0.99 }, "Unit Price": { "value": 385.00, "confidence": 0.99 }, "Amount": { "value": 770.00, "confidence": 0.99 } }, // 10 more rows ] } }
Your ERP or accounting system
Invoices in by email, upload or API; every field and line out to the system you post from.
A test environment
Your engineers validate changes before they reach production.
Audit log and permissions
By role, team and document type. Every correction recorded.
What teams ask about invoice OCR.
What does invoice OCR software do?
Invoice OCR software reads an invoice, whether a PDF, a scan or a phone photo, and turns it into structured data: vendor, invoice number, dates, PO number, every line item and the totals. Plain OCR returns the text on the page; invoice OCR with AI returns named fields and tables, whatever the supplier's layout. Docsumo is an intelligent document processing platform that does this with a confidence score on every field, and sends only the fields it's unsure about to a person. For the steps in between, see how OCR invoice processing works.
What data can be extracted from an invoice?
The header (vendor, invoice number, invoice and due dates, payment terms, PO number), the parties (vendor address, bill-to, ship-to and remit-to), every line item (item code, description, quantity, unit, unit price and amount) and the totals (subtotal, sales tax, freight and total due). Field names and the output schema are configurable, so you can add any other field your invoices carry.
Can Docsumo extract line items from multi-page invoices?
Yes. Docsumo extracts every line item, not just the header totals, and joins a table that runs across pages into one, so page two's rows land under page one's column headers even when page two repeats no header. The vendor's column names are mapped to yours, and it checks that each line's quantity times unit price equals its amount and that the lines add up to the subtotal.
Does it work on scanned, photographed and handwritten invoices?
Yes. Docsumo reads scans and phone photos like digital PDFs, and it reads handwritten as well as printed text. Every field carries a confidence score: a value it isn't sure about, such as a total under a shadow, goes to a reviewer, who sees the source line highlighted, instead of posting unchecked.
Do I need a template for each vendor?
No. Invoices are among the 250+ document types Docsumo reads, and because language models structure the OCR output, a new supplier's layout is read the day it arrives, without building a template or training on samples. Corrections your reviewers make improve the model.
How accurate is invoice OCR?
Docsumo reaches 99% field-level accuracy across 250+ document types in production, and 95%+ of documents go straight through with no manual review. Valtatech processes 99%+ of its invoices touchless. You set confidence thresholds per field, so anything below them goes to a person rather than into your ledger.
Can ChatGPT extract data from invoices?
A general AI model can read an invoice, but production work also needs a confidence score on every field, a review queue, line-item math checks, the same output schema every time, an audit log, and SOC 2 and HIPAA controls. Docsumo provides that layer, and your invoices are not used to train shared or third-party models.
What's the difference between invoice OCR and invoice processing software?
Invoice OCR gets the data off the invoice: fields, line items and totals. Invoice processing software covers the rest of the workflow: checking each invoice against your vendors and purchase orders, routing approvals and posting to the ERP. Docsumo does both, and its accounts payable automation adds line-by-line PO and receipt matching on the Enterprise plan.
How does the extracted data reach our ERP or accounting system?
Invoices come in by email, upload or REST API, and every field and line item goes back as JSON by API or webhook, with its confidence score, so it works with the ERP or accounting system you already run. A separate test environment lets your engineers validate the integration before it reaches production.
Can we test it on our own invoices?
Yes. Start a free trial with 1,000 pages over 14 days, with pre-trained models, API and webhooks, and no training data needed. Or book a demo and bring your longest invoice and your worst scan, and we'll run them live.
Bring your worst invoice to the demo.
Two pages of line items, a phone photo, a handwritten pad. We run them live and show every field and every line.



