Receive data you can rely on

Our competitors often encounter problems that can be overcome simply with our solution, such as:

• Information moving around
• The need before multiple interpretations
• Crossing over pages
• Appearing inside natural language text

With Advanced Data Automation, if there is logic governing what is read in a PDF, and how we use our Rules Engine to take care of it. Technology can quickly stick to strict rules without any mistakes. Most rules for understanding documents are straightforward, such as ensuring the date is always displayed on the top left of the document. Sometimes they’re more complicated, such as the date following the word “date”. Most difficult of all (but not impossible) is when a broader understanding of a document structure is needed to disambiguate similarly labeled items, or to identify information submerged within a non-unique context.

For freight documents, the validation rules commonly convert and validate data points such as: Carrier name, BOL #, Charge details, Container numbers, Weights, Delivery route, Customer name, Bill to, Ship To, Etc. Conversion is carried out to address carrier codes to reflect the reference for freight methods (Air, Sea, Land) Container size, weight, perishable goods, temp/humidity control etc.

Truly automated document processing

Our technology is different to anything else on the market, as we can guarantee no inaccuracies in your processed data. Many organizations still utilize Optical Character Recognition technology or EDI to fulfill requests. However, this still requires duplicate entry and manual checking to ensure accuracy.
Technology such as OCR requires significant manual input to function. Each document scanned through OCR, with manual adjustment before it can be inputted into a TMS or ERP.

Benefits

By removing human input when processing data, businesses can give employees more time to focus on the tasks they’re best at.

Thanks to Advanced Data Automation, prompt document processing and a seamless supply chain can be a reality.

Get your data quickly, in the format you need

Some technologies require your documents to be in a specific format in order to be processed. However, Advanced Data Automation for Freight Documents provides the flexibility of allowing data to be processed from PDF, XML, HTML etc. The solution patented technology that takes advantage of the text layer allows us to guarantee 100% data quality, as the data is mapped straight from the document. Other technologies (such as OCR) attempt to convert a picture into characters, meaning the quality of the data captured is directly correlated with the quality of the picture presented. With Advanced Data Automation there are less delays, a seamless workflow, and less data inaccuracy caused by inadequate file types.

Benefits

Information is extracted directly from the text layer, meaning it’s the data cannot be captured inaccurately. This method also saves on significant investment compared to the implementation of other solutions such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

If an image-based file is received, Advanced Data Automation can use OCR enhanced by our intelligent rules-based engine to enhance the accuracy of the data processed, although some manual checking may be required. We recommend encouraging your senders to supply commonly available data-based documents for premium accuracy.

Get your data quickly, in the format you need

Our solution can convert complex multi-bill carrier/shipment invoices into unique document sets, which can then be processed separately in back-office systems.

With regards to manual operators using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) solution, it can take them up to 30 minutes to capture data on a multi-page shipment invoice. Advanced Data Automation completes this task in a matter of seconds for a standard freight invoice. We can work with a single multipage document containing thousands of pages, or process multiple files contained in a single email.