Hey everyone, hoping someone out there has run into this specific headache and maybe, just maybe, found a good workaround. We’ve got a handful of vendors who, for whatever reason, still like to manually correct their printed invoices. I’m talking about them literally crossing out old amounts, scribbling in new ones, adding notes in the margins – you know the drill. Honestly, it absolutely destroys our OCR accuracy when it hits one of these mixed documents. Trying to get our current system to parse these is like asking it to read tea leaves; it just doesn’t work reliably, and it’s causing us a ton of extra manual work. We’re tearing our hair out trying to figure out a better way to handle these. Has anyone found a solid solution or a tool that’s actually decent at recognizing data from both printed text and handwritten corrections on the same document? FWIW, we’re open to exploring different OCR engines or workflows. Any advice at all would be hugely appreciated!
Ugh, tell me about it – we literally just went through this exact evaluation last quarter. What a headache!
Honestly, we kicked things off trying Amazon Textract, thinking it’d be a solid contender. But, in our specific setup, especially with those handwritten corrections on invoices, the accuracy just wasn’t there. It was tripping up too often for our comfort, making it a non-starter for our use case.
After that, we ended up going with Rossum. And FWIW, it’s actually been a total game-changer for us. We’re currently processing about 1200 documents a month through it, and I can honestly say we’ve had zero issues. It just… works. Hope this helps you out a bit!
Hey everyone, just wanted to chime in here with our experience. For context, I’m the one wrestling with Accounts Payable at a company of about 50 folks. We used to be completely, painfully manual – you know the drill, mountains of paper, endless data entry, the whole shebang. It was a proper time sink.
Then, about eight months ago, we finally bit the bullet and made the switch to ABBYY. Honestly, it’s been an absolute game-changer for us. We’re literally saving roughly 25 hours a week now. Seriously, I’m not even exaggerating; that number is real, and it’s made a massive difference to our workload.