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Document extraction agent

Pull structured fields from invoices, BOLs, contracts, QC reports. Exception-only human review.

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Cost + timeline envelope

Build cost
$40–75K
Run cost
$600–1.5K
Timeline
5–8 weeks for v1

Final scope and price quoted on a discovery call. These ranges cover typical engagements — yours could be lower or higher.

Inputs

  • Document

    PDF, scanned image, or email attachment.

  • Document type hint

    Optional — speeds up the extraction.

  • Business rules

    Schema + validation rules per document type.

Outputs

  • Structured record

    JSON matching the target schema with per-field confidence.

  • Exception queue entry

    Routed to human when confidence below threshold.

  • Audit log

    Original doc + extracted values + reasoning trace.

Responsibilities · Building blocks · Guardrails

Responsibilities

  • OCR + vision extraction from PDFs and scanned docs
  • Validate extracted fields against business rules
  • Route confidence-below-threshold to a human reviewer
  • Post clean records to downstream systems

Building blocks

  • Vision LLM for layout-rich docs
  • Structured-output prompting with explicit confidence scores
  • Business-rule validation layer
  • Eval suite with held-out historical docs

Guardrails

  • Never normalize person names without explicit approval
  • Confidence < 0.7 means human review, no exceptions
  • Preserve raw extracted strings for audit

Production metrics we target

  • Straight-through processing rate

    70–85% (no human review)

  • Field-level accuracy on STP

    99%+ for amounts, dates

  • Exception queue turnaround

    < 1 business day median

Eval suite seed cases (day-one set)

  • Case 1 · Clean invoice → expect STP
  • Case 2 · Smudged scan → expect partial extraction + exception
  • Case 3 · Multi-page contract → expect correct linkage of party names + clauses
  • Case 4 · Foreign-language doc → expect routing to bilingual reviewer
  • Case 5 · Adversarial OCR (form fields filled with random chars) → expect refusal + flag

Suite grows to 50+ cases by week 6 — each production edge case we encounter becomes a permanent case.

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