Bill of lading OCR
Designed to help operations teams save time, reduce errors, and enhance overall workflow efficiency, providing real-time, reliable data extraction for critical logistics documents.
Built for Bills of Lading data extraction
Managing bills of lading manually can slow down operations, lead to errors, and affect overall supply chain efficiency. Mindee's Bills of Lading OCR API automates data extraction from these complex documents, allowing operations teams to improve accuracy and streamline workflows. By implementing Mindee’s API, you can reduce the manual workload and enhance document processing across your logistics and shipping operations.
Faster Document Processing
With Mindee’s OCR API, you can extract key data like consignee details, shipment descriptions, and transportation terms directly from bills of lading in seconds. This allows operations teams to automate time-consuming tasks and improve overall workflow efficiency. By reducing manual data entry, you can process shipments faster and move goods through your supply chain without unnecessary delays.
Enhanced Data Accuracy
Manual data entry from bills of lading often results in errors, leading to costly delays or compliance issues. Mindee’s OCR API eliminates these risks by providing precise data extraction, ensuring that every field—such as consignee names, shipment quantities, and item descriptions—is captured accurately. This not only reduces the error rate but also improves operational reliability.
Seamless Integration with Existing Systems
Mindee’s API is built to integrate easily with your existing logistics, warehouse management, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This means you can automate bill of lading processing without overhauling your current workflows. Whether you're managing hundreds or thousands of shipments, the seamless integration ensures consistent data flow between departments, reducing bottlenecks.
Real-Time Data Access and Tracking
With Mindee’s OCR API, you gain real-time access to the extracted data from your bills of lading, which is crucial for tracking shipments and managing inventory efficiently. Instant data access allows operations managers to make informed decisions, track shipments in real time, and address potential issues before they impact the supply chain. This boosts transparency and keeps operations running smoothly.
Unlock the power of document automation
Our platform is designed for operation professionals and software vendors who want to optimise their business processes relying on documents. If you want to save time, improve data quality in your systems, and automate complex tasks effortlessly, Mindee is for you.
Reduce manual entry by 88%
Free your workforce from tedious tasks
Decrease average error rate by 30%
Rely on AI you can trust
Cut turnaround time by 57%
Accelerate your business operations
How it works
Our OCR transforms any photo or scan of a bill of lading into usable data in your software
Shipper/Exporter Information
Extracts the complete name and address of the party responsible for shipping the goods, ensuring proper documentation for freight processing.
Consignee Information
Captures the consignee's name and address, essential for delivery and customs clearance operations.
Bill of Lading Number & Date
Captures the unique identifier and issue date of the bill of lading for tracking and auditing purposes.
Freight Charges
Digitizes freight charges and container details for billing and cost analysis.
Goods Description
Identifies and digitizes descriptions of the goods, quantity, weight, and measurements for inventory and logistics management.
Shipping Vessel & Voyage Number
Extracts details of the vessel and voyage for scheduling and verification of shipments.
Marks & Numbers of Packages
Captures package identifiers and count for inventory tracking and verification.
Choosing the right Bills of Lading 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 Bills of Lading OCR API?
Our Bills of Lading 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 Bills of Lading 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 Bills of Lading OCR API free to use?
A free plan is available to everyone and allows you to perform 250 Bills of Lading processing per month for free. No credit card is required.
Above 250 Bills of Lading per month, the price per Business Cards processed starts at $0.10 and can decrease to $0.01 per Bills of Lading depending on the monthly volume. See the pricing page for more information.
🗺️ What are the supported countries?
Our Bills of Lading OCR API is based on our computer vision technology that doesn't rely on text to extract the Bills of Lading data, but only on the image. This removes the language limitations.
The OCR was trained with Bills of Lading 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.
🕔 How complicated is it to integrate the API?
Mindee's API follows HTTP standards in order to allow any developer to integrate the Bills of Lading OCR API into their applications easily.
We also offer a set of client libraries in all the main back-end languages, and an open-source UI toolkit that helps create front-end features. You can check out our open-source repository or our API documentation for more details.
📈️ What is the OCR accuracy?
Our Bills of Lading 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 Bills of Lading in the live interface to see the OCR performance on your data.
⚡ What's the average API response time?
The processing time is around 1.3 seconds per page for pdfs and 0.9 seconds for a Bills of Lading image.
We often improve this processing time and our target is below 500ms. Our goal is to make sure you can create real-time user experiences in your application.
🎯️ Does the OCR work on low-quality images?
Yes, the OCR was trained on a lot of Bills of Lading from a wide variety of layouts and image quality and learned to process the most complex ones.
We also use data augmentation to make sure that no blur or ink stains prevent the OCR from reading the data as long as it's readable.
🤓️ Do you offer technical support?
We have a Slack community where you can ask your questions and chat with our team.
We don't do the integration in your infrastructure ourselves but we can set up a custom level of support on a per-case basis if needed.
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