Energy Bill OCR
Designed to help operations teams save time, improve data accuracy, and streamline workflows, providing a reliable solution for automated energy bill processing and real-time data access.
Built for Energy Bills data extraction
Managing energy bills manually can be tedious and prone to errors, slowing down operational workflows. Mindee’s Energy Bills OCR API automates the extraction of crucial data, such as meter readings, billing amounts, and tariff details, directly from energy invoices. By implementing this API, operations teams can optimize data processing and enhance the efficiency of energy management systems.
Speed Up Energy Bill Processing
Mindee’s OCR API accelerates the extraction of data from energy bills, eliminating the need for manual data entry. By automating this process, operations teams can quickly pull key details like billing dates, consumption rates, and amounts due, allowing them to process bills faster and allocate resources more efficiently. This results in faster billing cycles and improved cash flow management
Improve Data Accuracy and Reduce Errors
Manual entry of energy bill data can lead to costly mistakes in consumption tracking and financial calculations. Mindee’s OCR API ensures that every field—such as kilowatt-hour usage, billing period, and pricing—is captured with high accuracy. This automation reduces human error, providing more reliable data for budgeting and energy management.
Seamless Integration with Energy Management Systems
Mindee’s OCR API integrates effortlessly with your existing energy management software, allowing you to automate energy bill data extraction without disrupting current workflows. This seamless integration ensures that data is consistently transferred between systems, enabling better decision-making and energy usage tracking.
Real-Time Access to Energy Consumption Data
By automating the extraction of energy bill data, Mindee’s OCR API gives operations managers real-time access to critical consumption and billing information. This enables better tracking of energy usage, cost forecasting, and identification of inefficiencies, ultimately allowing for more effective energy management and operational control.
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How it works
Our OCR transforms any photo or scan of an energy bill into usable data in your software
Bill Date and Bill Number
Extract the exact date the bill was generated and its unique identifying number (e.g., "Bill date: 31 Mar 2014," "Bill number: 00000000/0").
Account Number
The API captures the unique account number associated with the customer’s energy account, and any additional contact information to help customer service teams access account details easily.
Billing Address
Extract the customer’s name and business address, which is important for billing and communication.
Previous Balance and Payments
Extract the balance from the last bill and any payments or credits made since the last billing cycle.
Total Charges (Before and After VAT)
Extract the total amount payable, broken down into VAT-exclusive and VAT-inclusive amounts.
Energy Payment Slip
Extract information like the amount payable, customer reference, and payment options.
Choosing the right Energy Bills OCR for your application
Finding the right OCR technology to use for your project can be a heavy task. Whatever your use case is, criteria like extraction performances, response time, integration time, pricing, scalability... should be taken into account in order to maximize the added value in your software. Feel free to contact us if you don't find the answers to your questions below.
📄 How can I test the Energy Bill OCR API?
Our Energy Bill API is free to use and available to any user having an account on our platform.
To test our APIs, you only have to create a free account using this link, and you'll be able to drag and drop Energy Bills in the live interface to see the data extracted in real-time and JSON response. A demo page is also available here.
💸 Is Mindee's Energy Bill OCR API free to use?
A free plan is available to everyone and allows you to perform 250 Energy Bills processing per month for free. No credit card is required.
Above 250 Energy Bills per month, the price per Energy Bills processed starts at $0.10 and can decrease to $0.01 per Energy Bills depending on the monthly volume. See the pricing page for more information.
🗺️ Quels sont les pays supportés ?
Our Energy Bills OCR API is based on our computer vision technology that doesn't rely on text to extract the Energy Bills data, but only on the image. This removes the language limitations.
The OCR was trained with Energy Bills from more than 50 countries and works on bills of lading from all around the world for numeric fields, and all Latin alphabet countries for text ones.
🕔 L'intégration de l'API est-elle compliquée ?
Mindee's API follows HTTP standards in order to allow any developer to integrate the Energy Bill OCR API into their applications easily.
Nous proposons également un ensemble de bibliothèques clientes dans tous les principaux langages back-end, ainsi qu'une boîte à outils open-source pour l'interface utilisateur, qui permet de créer des fonctionnalités frontales. Vous pouvez consulter notre référentiel open-source ou la documentation de notre API pour plus de détails.
📈️ Quelle est la précision de l'OCR ?
Our Energy Bill OCR's accuracy is above 90%, with precision above 95% for most of the fields. These performances are computed on a data set including more than 50 countries.
Testing our OCR API is free, all you need is an account. Feel free to drop Energy Bills in the live interface to see the OCR performance on your data.
⚡ Quel est le temps de réponse moyen de l'API ?
The processing time is around 1.3 seconds per page for pdfs and 0.9 seconds for a Energy Bill image.
Nous améliorons souvent ce temps de traitement et notre objectif est de descendre en dessous de 500 ms. Notre objectif est de faire en sorte que vous puissiez créer des expériences utilisateur en temps réel dans votre application.
🎯️ L'OCR fonctionne-t-il sur des images de faible qualité ?
Yes, the OCR was trained on a lot of Energy Bills from a wide variety of layouts and image quality and learned to process the most complex ones.
Nous utilisons également l'augmentation des données pour nous assurer qu'aucun flou ni aucune tache d'encre n'empêche l'OCR de lire les données, pour autant qu'elles soient lisibles.
🤓️ Proposez-vous une assistance technique ?
Nous avons une communauté Slack où vous pouvez poser vos questions et discuter avec notre équipe.
Nous ne procédons pas nous-mêmes à l'intégration dans votre infrastructure, mais nous pouvons mettre en place un niveau d'assistance personnalisé au cas par cas, si nécessaire.
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