Overview

Traditionally, much effort has been put into streamlining the Purchase to Pay process within organisations. However, Accounts Payable tends to still involve paper orientated manual processes which can impact on invoice processing accuracy, payment settlement KPIs and departmental efficiencies. Azolve provide an intelligent invoice scanning solution which improves invoice handling efficiencies and reduces cost.

Scanning

Azolve can provide scanning software which integrates to any TWAIN compliant paper scanner which enables images to be captured digitally. However, if organisations already have scanning solutions, we can take images of invoices and process these accordingly.

OCR

Image files are processed via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for text conversion that enables key characteristics of the invoice to be identified which, in turn, determines the rules for invoice information extraction.

Extractor

A 'content extractor’, using a generic invoice template is applied to the text and through 'zoning' and 'keywords' a template rule can automatically be constructed for each specific invoice type to facilitate rapid extraction of pertinent data from future invoices conforming to any specific type. Our intelligent rules engine provides for manual intervention to resolve templates for problem invoices, but it can learn from this manual input and the rules generator is refined and new knowledge is applied to future invoice styles. This learning technique makes for a rapid deployment and early benefits being realised.