Keep track of the changes and updates for the Invoice OCR API.

Version 4

⚡️ Features and Changes (October 10th, 2024)

• 🐛 Fix French Guyana company IDs not correctly detected.
• 🐛 Fix text recognition errors for emails and websites for native PDFs.
• ✨ New field po_number : The unique identifier which is issued by a buyer to a seller to authorize the purchase of goods or services.
• ✨ New field payment_date : The date by which the payment is expected or was made.
• ✨ New sub-field is_computed in due_date: It is set to True if the due_date is calculated based on payment terms or natural language, and False if it is directly specified as a date in the document.

⚡️ Features and Changes (July 17th, 2024)

We added the LiLT for line_items reconstruction on the Invoice API.

• 🔥 Strong improvement on line_items
  Reduction in errors in terms of perfectly reconstructed lines of about 30 to 40%.
• ⚡️ Strong reduction of processing time for invoices with many line items
• ✨ New field unit_of_measure in line_items that represents the unit of measurement for the item, such as kilograms, liters, units, etc.

⚡️ Features and Changes (July 11th, 2024)

We added the LiLT for total_amount, total_tax and taxes on the Invoice API.

• 🔥 Strong improvement on total_amount, total_tax and taxes .

We have observed a reduction in error rates as follows:

• 36% for total_amount
• 25% for total_tax (+7% on precision)
• 15% for taxes

⚡️ Features and Changes (May 16th, 2024)

• 🐛 Fix date parsing for spanish/italian invoices

• 🐛 Fix reading errors for invoice number

• 🔥 Strong improvement on document_type

• ⚡ Taxes from line items

  taxes field outputs taxes from the line items when no tax summary is present on the document.

⚡️ Features and Changes (April 25th, 2024)

• 🚀  Extended latin alphabet support
  We released new models for our generic text detection and recognition pipeline. This release has increased the overall performances on all fields and supports extended latin alphabet characters:

  {'`', '¡', '¥', '¿', 'Á', 'Ã', 'Ä', 'Å', 'Æ', 'Ì', 'Í', 'Ð', 'Ñ', 'Ò', 'Ó', 'Õ', 'Ö', 'Ø', 'Ú', 'Ü', 'Ý', 'Þ', 'ß', 'á', 'ã', 'ä', 'å', 'æ', 'ì', 'í', 'ð', 'ñ', 'ò', 'ó', 'õ', 'ö', 'ø', 'ú', 'ü', 'ý', 'þ', 'Ā', 'ā', 'Ă', 'ă', 'Ą', 'ą', 'Ć', 'ć', 'Č', 'č', 'Ď', 'ď', 'Đ', 'đ', 'Ē', 'ē', 'Ė', 'ė', 'Ę', 'ę', 'Ě', 'ě', 'Ğ', 'ğ', 'Ģ', 'ģ', 'Ī', 'ī', 'Į', 'į', 'İ', 'ı', 'Ķ', 'ķ', 'Ĺ', 'ĺ', 'Ļ', 'ļ', 'Ľ', 'ľ', 'Ł', 'ł', 'Ń', 'ń', 'Ņ', 'ņ', 'Ň', 'ň', 'Ō', 'ō', 'Ő', 'ő', 'Ŕ', 'ŕ', 'Ŗ', 'ŗ', 'Ř', 'ř', 'Ś', 'ś', 'Ş', 'ş', 'Š', 'š', 'Ť', 'ť', 'Ū', 'ū', 'Ů', 'ů', 'Ű', 'ű', 'Ų', 'ų', 'Ź', 'ź', 'Ż', 'ż', 'Ž', 'ž', 'Ș', 'ș', 'Ț', 'ț', 'ẞ', '₿'}
  

• 🔥 Strong improvement on due_date, line_items
  We have observed a reduction in error rates as follows:

  • 20% for due_date
  • 25% for line_items

• ✨ New fields:
  The API is now extracting the following fields:
  customer_id: The identifier of the customer in the supplier’s referential. It can also refer to the client ID, client / customer account number…
  supplier_phone_number: The phone number of the supplier
  supplier_email: The supplier email address
  supplier_website: The supplier website URL

• 🔥 General accuracy improvement
  Thanks to the improvement done on our generic text detection and recognition algorithms, we measured a reduction in error rates on all fields, especially for supplier and customer information.

⚡️ Features and Changes (March 11th, 2024)

• 🚀  Integration of company ID & logo database
  We have integrated a company ID database and a vector database featuring millions of logos. This enhancement enables our R&D team to efficiently rectify any issues with non-functional supplier names.

• 🔥 Strong improvement on supplier_name, customer_name, and invoice_number
  We have observed a reduction in error rates as follows:

  • 20% for customer_name
  • 15% for supplier_name
  • 10% for invoice_number

  The improvement in supplier_name was achieved by incorporating information from the databases. The customer_name algorithm now mirrors the supplier_name one. invoice_number now employs an NLP modality to boost its precision.

• ✨ New fields: shipping_address, billing_address and tax_base:
  The API now extracts the shipping_address and billing_address.
  We have updated the taxes field to include the tax_base value. Including the tax_base value in the taxes field can help you calculate and report taxes more accurately.

⚡️ Features and Changes (January 30th, 2024)

• 🚀 Integration of a proprietary language model in the algorithm pipeline: LiLT
  LILT: A Simple yet Effective Language-Independent Layout Transformer for Structured Document Understanding.
  LiLT's design combines textual content with layout structure. This means it doesn't just read the text but also understands how the text is organized within the document. For instance, it recognizes headings, paragraphs, tables, and other structural elements, which is a crucial aspect of context awareness in document processing.
  The integration of this new language model in our pipeline helps us achieve better accuracy, and more flexibility when adding new supported fields.
• 🔥 Strong improvement on supplier_name, supplier_address, and supplier_company_registrations
  The main focus of this release was to improve drastically the supplier information extraction.
  We measured a decrease in error rates of:
  • 42% for supplier_name
  • 10% for supplier_address
  • 10% for supplier_company_registrations
    Moreover, the integration of the LILT offers more robustness in terms of languages thanks to its language-independent component and will help us improve all other fields in the next releases.
• ✨ New field: total_tax
  The API is now extracting the total tax information, returned as a number. It corresponds to the total tax explicitly written in the document.
• 🔥 General improvement for all fields
  More training data was added to our training set, including different geographies and more variability. We’ve measured an improvement in accuracy for all extracted fields.

⚡️ Features and Changes (September 1st, 2023)

• ✨ New field: Raw Value available for both Supplier Name and Customer Name.
  The Raw Value extracts the name without post processing nor formatting. It can thus be different from the Value.

⚡️ Features and Changes (January 3rd, 2023)

• New field extracted: Reference numbers which is a list of variable size which may contain PO numbers, reference numbers or project numbers

⚡️ Features and Changes (November 30th, 2022)

• Line items extraction. Line items are returned as a list in the json response. Each item includes:
  • description
  • quantity
  • unit price
  • total amount
  • tax rate
  • tax amount
  • product code
• Renaming of fields in the json response for more clarity:
  • supplier -> supplier_name
  • payment_details -> supplier_payment_details
  • company_registration -> supplier_company_registrations
  • customer_company_registration -> customer_company_registrations
  • total_incl -> total_amount
  • total_excl -> total_net

Version 3

⚡️ Features and Changes (March 24th, 2022)

• Update in response scheme with new orientation information available.
• Update in polygon coordinates and format.
• Improvement in extraction performance of company IDs.

⚡️ Features and Changes (Feb 24th, 2022)

• Supports 4 new extracted fields:
  • Customer name
  • Customer address
  • Customer company registration
  • Supplier address

Version 2

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Invoice V2 API Performance Update

For increased performance in the extraction of your fields and result, please upgrade to v3 as this version is currently not maintained.

⚡️ Features and Changes (August 18, 2021 )

• Supports the use of native PDF text content to extract fields.
• Improvement in accuracy for document-level prediction.
• Supports 17 additional currencies: AED, AUD, BRL, CNY, COP, CZK, DKK, GNF, HKD, HUF, JPY, NOK, NZD, PLN, SEK, SGD, XPF.
• Extraction performance improvement of these currencies: CAD, CHF, EUR, GBP, USD.
• Addition of international payment details (IBAN, routing number, SWIFT/BIC code, account number).
• Inconsistency in amount / tax fixed.
• Overall improvement in extraction performance.

Version 1

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Invoice V1 API Depreciation

Support for the invoice V1 API is deprecated. Please use v3 instead.

⚡️ Feature: First Release (August 6, 2020)

Extracted fields:

• Due date
• Invoice date
• Invoice number
• Locale & currency
• Supplier identification number (SIRET, EIN, VAT number...)
• Supplier name
• Taxes details
• Total amount including taxes
• Total amount excluding taxes

 

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