OCR supplier document capture

Stop retyping
supplier invoices.

Light Industrial reads the quotes, delivery notes and invoices your suppliers send you — and pushes clean, matched data straight into your stock and accounts.

Paperwork in, structured data out — no retyping, no reconciliation by hand.

Capture & match
Delivery note · Eurosteel
DN-4471
S/STEEL SHEET 304×2
M10 BOLT (BOX)×3
WELD WIRE 0.8×1
Matched to your stock
S/Steel Sheet 304 2BMatched
ITM-00072 sheets99%
M10 Bolt, ZincMatched
ITM-11823 box → 300 ea96%
Weld Wire 0.8mmReview
2 suggestions1 reel71%

Diagram 01 — capture & match

The daily tax

The paperwork already arrived. Now someone has to type it.

Three things quietly cost you hours every week — and they all start with a document a supplier sent back.

01 / RE-ENTRY

Typed in by hand

Every quote and invoice gets keyed into your system line by line. Again, and again, and again.

"That's two afternoons a week, just capturing."

02 / DRIFT

Counts that don't match

Goods arrive, the note gets filed, stock never gets updated. Your system says 40; the shelf says 12.

"We stopped trusting the numbers months ago."

03 / MONTH-END

Reconciled by hand

Delivery notes against POs against invoices, matched line by line when the month closes.

"Every month-end is a paper hunt."

The loop

Raise it, capture it, receive it. Stock keeps itself honest.

One flow from purchase order to updated stock. The capture steps run automatically — you only confirm what the system isn't sure about.

01

Raise a purchase order

Create a PO in the system or import one, and send it to your supplier.

Your move
02

Supplier replies

A quote comes back as a PDF, an email, or a photo. OCR reads the document.

Automated capture
03

Normalise & match

Captured lines are matched to your stock items and suppliers. Anything unknown is flagged for a one-click confirm.

Automated capture
04

Accept the quote

Approve it and the quote becomes an approved order, ready to receive against.

Your move
05

Capture the receipt

Snap the delivery note when goods arrive. OCR reconciles it against the order — full or partial.

Automated capture
06

Stock updates itself

Levels rise automatically on receipt, in the units you actually count, with a full audit trail.

Automated capture

Ember = runs automatically. Paperwork in, structured data out.

Under the hood

The smart bits that make capture trustworthy.

Reading the text is the easy part. The value is in what happens next — matched, converted, and flagged when it isn't sure.

Supplier normalisation

One supplier, not four spellings

Captured supplier details are matched to records you already have. Duplicates collapse; genuinely new suppliers are proposed for you to confirm — never silently created.

Resolving supplier
Eurosteel (Pty) Ltd EUROSTEEL euro steel jhb 1 supplier
E
Eurosteel
ITM linked · 92 items
Human-in-the-loop

Trust, not magic

Low-confidence fields are flagged for a quick confirm rather than trusted blindly.

Weld Wire 0.8mm71%
Suggested match
MIG Wire 0.8mm ER70SITM-0431
ConfirmPick another
Line-item matching

Fuzzy text, exact item

OCR'd descriptions are fuzzy-matched to your catalogue, with a suggested match — not a blank field.

Captured → matched
"S/STEEL SHT 304"99%
S/Steel Sheet 304 2BITM-0007
"M10 BOLT BOX"96%
M10 Bolt, ZincITM-1182
Unit & packaging conversion

Boxes in, units on hand

Suppliers sell in boxes; you count in units. Conversion is applied at receipt.

Applied at receipt
3 boxes=300 units
1 box100 ea
Partial receipts

Receive what arrived

Take in what turned up and keep the rest open. Stock reflects reality, not the PO.

PO-0180 · receiving7 of 10
S/Steel Sheet 304 — 2 of 2
M10 Bolt — 5 of 5
Weld Wire 0.8 — 0 of 3 still open
And it grows with you

Capture is the wedge. There's a platform behind it.

Once your paperwork is structured data, the rest of your operation gets easier too.

Inventory

Stock, in your units

Track what's on hand in the units you actually consume, with thresholds that flag items before they run critical.

Quoting

Quote from stock

Turn your stock and pricing into client quotes without rebuilding the catalogue somewhere else.

Accounting

Sync to your books

Push customers and invoices to your accounting package — QuickBooks first, more to follow.

Built for

Light-industrial businesses run on email, spreadsheets, and a disconnected accounting package.

01

Manufacturers

Small-to-mid shops buying materials in, tracking what's consumed.

02

Fabricators

Steel, timber, plastics — priced by supplier, counted by you.

03

Wholesalers

High supplier volume, constant receiving, thin margins for error.

04

Trade suppliers

Owner-operators and ops managers drowning in supplier paperwork.

See it on your own documents

Send us a supplier invoice. Watch it get captured.

Nothing sells this like watching it eat your own messy paperwork. Send one document — we'll run it through and show you the structured result.

Send an invoice

One document, one honest look at the capture-and-match result. No account needed.

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