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Use cases

Use cases for document-heavy teams.

Start with the documents that slow approvals, records, and ERP imports. exdata turns PDFs, scans, email attachments, and e-invoices into structured fields your systems can route.

Industries and sectors

Choose the workflow that needs structured fields first.

Each sector starts with the same dependable pattern: upload the document, extract evidenced fields, then hand normalized JSON to the system that already owns the process.

Accounting teams

Invoices before approval

Extract supplier, invoice number, due date, totals, VAT rows, IBAN, and payment reference from PDF invoices.

Document archives

Searchable records

Enrich archived PDFs and scans with names, dates, amounts, references, tax IDs, and document categories.

ERP and integration teams

Cleaner ERP imports

Normalize document fields before they enter ERP import queues, validation jobs, or customer-specific workflows.

Finance operations

Payment readiness

Capture payment details, gross and net amounts, dates, references, and parties before review or payment runs.

Procurement and logistics

Supplier document intake

Route supplier invoices, order references, period dates, and cost center data into the right operational queue.

SaaS and agencies

Extraction inside client portals

Use one API to add extraction to accounting platforms, archive products, workflow tools, and custom client portals.

Public sector and administration

Incoming record handling

Turn incoming PDFs and scans into searchable records with dates, parties, references, and routing context.

Shared service centers

Consistent processing across teams

Give multiple business units the same extraction API while keeping account access, usage, and support context separated.

Extensions on request

Request extensions for your custom documents.

When your sector uses forms, statements, or records that standard extraction does not cover yet, exdata can scope the document type and fields into the same API flow.

Extension scope

Add the fields your sector needs.

Extensions stay focused: a document type, a field group, and enough examples to make the result useful in the API.

New document types

Capture the forms your sector uses.

  • Customs declarations
  • Delivery notes
  • Account statements
  • Public forms
Sector fields

Return the details standard extraction should not guess.

  • Industry codes
  • Routing references
  • Line context
  • Review flags
Output shape

Keep the same API surface.

Custom fields are returned as typed JSON so your review queue, validation rules, and downstream systems can use them without a second workflow.

Where to start

Pick the first workflow by operational signal.

The best first use case is usually a document flow with repeated fields, a clear owner, and a downstream system that already waits for the data.

Standard extraction

Start with recurring business documents.

Use this when the team already reviews the same invoices, statements, receipts, delivery notes, or archive PDFs every week.

Good signal
  • Known fields
  • Repeated files
  • Manual copying today
Extension candidate

Use an extension for sector-specific fields.

Use this when the document has industry codes, line context, regulatory references, or review flags that standard extraction should not guess.

Good signal
  • Special document type
  • Sector codes
  • Custom validation
Embedded workflow

Add extraction where files enter your product.

Use this when customers, internal teams, or branch offices already upload documents into a portal, inbox, or review queue.

Good signal
  • Existing upload flow
  • Visible review queue
  • API owner

Next

Start with the sector workflow you already know, then request an extension when the document type needs its own fields.