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Zero-Touch Finance:
Using AI to Process Invoices.

How we automated the reconciliation of thousands of complex PDF invoices using LlamaParse and GPT-4, saving the finance team 20 hours a week.

AutonoLabs Team

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The Data Entry Nightmare

The finance team was drowning in PDF invoices from hundreds of different suppliers. Each had a unique layout, making traditional OCR tools fail. Manually typing data into Google Sheets for reconciliation was slow, boring, and error-prone.

Autonomous Processing

We built an intelligent pipeline that watches a Gmail inbox. Unlike standard OCR, it uses LlamaParse to understand complex document structures (tables, headers) and GPT-4 to standardize the data.

Extracts Line Items (Name, Qty, Price) even from messy tables.
Intelligently parses Supplier Details (Address, VAT ID) regardless of layout.
Pushes clean, validated data directly to Google Sheets or Xero.

Next-Gen OCR (LlamaParse)

We don't just read text; we understand structure. The system accurately parses nested tables and multi-page invoices that break traditional OCR tools.

Perfectly Structured Data

The AI converts messy PDFs into a strict JSON schema. Invoice Number, Date, Total, and Tax are always in the correct column, ready for analysis.

Duplicate Prevention

The workflow automatically tags emails as "Processed" in Gmail, ensuring no invoice is ever paid twice or missed.

The Business Impact

99.9%

Accuracy

Eliminated human data entry errors. Numbers match the source PDF exactly, every time.

20 hrs

Saved Weekly

The finance manager got half their week back to focus on strategy instead of typing.

Real-Time

Visibility

Cash flow data is updated the moment an invoice hits the inbox, not at the end of the month.