Retyping is the job
Hours a week spent copying numbers from PDFs into systems, and the mistakes that come with it.
Document reading
Read trade documents without retyping them
Upload a supplier's invoice, a forwarder's bill of lading, a mill's tally sheet or a certificate. Senda reads the values and shows where each one came from on the page, so checking is a glance rather than a hunt — and a correction is recorded, not lost.
The problem
What this usually looks like today.
Black-box extraction
Tools that return a value with no way to see where on the page it came from, so every number has to be re-checked anyway.
Every format is different
Scans, native PDFs, Word and Excel files from dozens of suppliers, each laid out their own way.
In Senda
How the work gets done instead.
- 1
Upload anything
PDFs, scans, photos, Word and Excel files, attached to the order or shipment they belong to.
- 2
See where each value came from
Every extracted value points to its page and its place on that page, with how confident the reading was.
- 3
Teach it your suppliers' layouts
For a document you see every week, mark where each field sits once, without code, and Senda reads it from there.
- 4
Corrections are kept
When someone fixes a value, the correction is recorded as its own reading rather than overwriting the history.
Where it stops
What it will not do.
Worth knowing before you book anything.
- A person confirms extracted values before they are relied on. Senda does not claim any reading is always right.
- Document pages are counted against your plan: 500 a month on Core, 2,500 on Operations.
- Reading a document is not filing it. Senda files nothing with any customs authority.
Questions
What people ask us.
What kinds of documents can Senda read?
Commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, tally sheets, certificates and other trade paperwork, as PDFs, scans, photos, Word or Excel files.
How do I know a value is right?
Each value shows the page and the place on that page it was read from, and how confident the reading was, so you can check it against the original in one look. Low-confidence values are the ones to look at first.
What happens to our documents?
They are stored against the order or shipment they belong to, in your workspace, with version history. Ask us in the workflow review about where they are processed and how long they are kept.
Start with your real workflow
See it on one of your own orders.
Tell us how your team works today and we'll walk one real order-to-shipment workflow with you before anything is signed.