What is purchase order OCR?
Purchase order OCR (Optical Character Recognition) automatically extracts and digitizes data from paper-based or electronic purchase orders. Modern purchase order OCR uses AI to return structured data, such as the PO number, vendor, line items, quantities, prices and totals, instead of a raw block of text.
By utilizing OCR technology to extract data from documents, Parseur captures essential details such as vendor information, quantities, prices, and terms directly from purchase orders, ensuring quick and accurate data entry into enterprise systems.
With purchase order OCR, your company can achieve faster processing times, better compliance, and enhanced visibility into their purchasing operations.
From any purchase order to clean data in minutes
Parseur is an AI document processing platform that reads every purchase order your customers and buyers send and delivers the fields procurement, sales and order entry teams expect.
Describe the fields in plain English
List the fields you need from a purchase order, such as PO number, vendor, line items and totals, and Parseur's AI extracts them from every PO. No template per customer or vendor.
Line items as rows
Each SKU, quantity and unit price comes out as its own row, so a 30-line purchase order is 30 rows in your spreadsheet or ERP, not one block of text.
Straight into your ERP, accounting tool or spreadsheet
Push purchase order data to Excel, Google Sheets, your ERP or procurement software through webhooks, Zapier, Make, Power Automate or the API.
What fields can Parseur extract from purchase orders?
Below is a list of the most commonly extracted fields from POs. With Parseur, you have the flexibility to customize this list by adding, renaming, or removing fields as needed.
Parseur is designed to support data extraction from purchase orders in any language and format.
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Sample value
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Text (multi-lines)
PONumber
The purchase order number.
PO-67890
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Date
PODate
The date the po was issued.
2024-01-01
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Person's name
VendorName
The name of the vendor.
ACME Inc.
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Address
VendorAddress
The address of the vendor.
456 1st Street, Newtown, USA
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Number
SubtotalAmount
The subtotal amount before taxes.
$90.00
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Number
TaxAmount
The total tax amount.
$9.00
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Number
TotalAmount
The total amount due.
$99.00
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Table (list of items)
Items
The list of items purchased.
sku description quantity unit_price total 12345 Product A 2 $10.00 $20.00 67890 Product B 3 $15.00 $45.00 24680 Product C 1 $25.00 $25.00
How does Parseur reduce purchase order data errors?
Most purchase order errors come from three places: retyping, customer layouts a template cannot handle, and poor scans. Parseur removes all three, which is why procurement and order entry teams put it at the core of their purchase order automation workflow.
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A purchase order carries dozens of values that are easy to mistype: PO numbers, SKUs, quantities, unit prices, dates and delivery addresses. Parseur reads the document and fills every field itself, so none of them pass through a keyboard on the way to your ERP or order management system.
Three sources of purchase order errors, removed
- Retyped PO numbers, quantities and prices
- Customer layouts a template cannot handle
- Poor scans, stamps and handwriting
AI Document processing you can trust
Parseur has extracted data from documents for businesses around the world since 2016.
- documents processed
- 100M+
- businesses trust Parseur
- 40,000+
- in production since
- 2016
- uptime
- 99.9%+
We use Parseur to scan our customer purchase orders in all their various formats, styles and types and to send them on to Make to convert them into a format that our accounting system can import.
No need to talk to sales. Get started now
Try Parseur for free and see how quickly you can extract data from your own documents.
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Sign up for free
No credit card required. Start on the free plan and upgrade only when you need more volume.
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Upload your documents
Forward emails, drag and drop files or connect through the API. PDFs, scans and photos all work.
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Get structured data
Parseur extracts the fields you need and sends them to your spreadsheet or business apps.
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