Logistics
BOL + customs + demurrage. Multi-leg reconciliation.
Freight forwarders, customs brokers, 3PLs, and shippers automate document intake — bills of lading, commercial invoices, customs forms, demurrage notices. Multi-language support for international trade (Chinese export docs, Arabic customs forms, Hindi waybills). Multi-leg shipment reconciliation across modes.
Document types
What we extract for logistics teams.
Bill of lading (BOL)
Ocean, air, ground BOLs. Shipper, consignee, notify party, container/seal numbers, weight, declared value extracted as structured fields.
Commercial invoices
HS codes, country of origin, line-item quantities + values, Incoterms. Multi-currency handling with auto FX-anchor dates.
Packing lists
Box counts, weights, dimensions per package. Aggregated across multi-container shipments.
Customs forms
CBP Form 7501 (US entry), CN22/CN23 (international), ATA carnets, EAD (Authorized Economic Operator). Per-country compliance.
Demurrage notices
Container ID, free time expiry, accruing charges, contact info. Date-math validation against vessel arrival.
Delivery orders + waybills
Airway bills (AWB), ocean delivery orders, ground BOLs. Multi-language (Chinese, Arabic, Hindi for Asian origins).
Built for the workflow
Capabilities that matter in logistics.
Multi-leg reconciliation
One shipment, multiple documents (BOL → commercial invoice → customs entry → delivery order). DocuExtract correlates by container ID + HS code; surfaces discrepancies for review.
HS code validation
Extracted HS codes validated against current tariff schedules. Catches typos (4203.10 vs 4203.21) before they trigger customs holds.
Multi-language trade docs
Chinese export documents (Mandarin), Arabic customs forms (Saudi, UAE), Hindi waybills (India). Auto-detect script + route to the right OCR engine.
Webhook + EDI integration
Push extracted fields to your TMS / WMS / freight forwarder system via webhook. EDI 856 / 990 / 214 message generation on the roadmap.
The addon
Logistics pack
Attach to any paid plan. $149/mo on any paid plan · included Enterprise. Vertical-specific templates, compliance gates, and field types — all integrated into the same DocuExtract platform you already use.
FAQ
Questions logistics buyers ask.
- Can it handle Chinese commercial invoices?
- Yes — Mandarin printed text routes to PaddleOCR (94–96% accuracy on clean printed). Handwritten Chinese annotations route to the HW-NE Gemini Flash mode. Mixed-language docs (English + Mandarin headers) use the HW-ML dual-engine pipeline.
- What about EDI integration?
- Webhook out today (push extracted JSON to your endpoint, you translate to EDI). Native EDI 856 (ASN), 990 (Booking Confirmation), 214 (Status Update) message generation on the roadmap. Talk to consulting if it would unblock a deal.
- Does it integrate with my TMS?
- Via webhook + API. Tested with CargoWise, Magaya, MercuryGate, SAP TM, Oracle TMS — all consume our JSON output. Custom integrations available via consulting.
- Demurrage charges — can you compute remaining free time?
- Yes — extract vessel arrival + free time + start date, compute remaining days, alert on threshold. Surfaces in the dashboard + via webhook. Saves the manual cross-reference between BOL + carrier portal.
- How does this compare to Magaya / CargoWise built-in OCR?
- TMS-native OCR is typically Tesseract-based + locked to the TMS's field mapping. DocuExtract is engine-agnostic (PaddleOCR + Surya + vision-LLM cascade) and lets you define your own field schemas. Push results to TMS via webhook. Best fit: when TMS OCR can't handle your real document mix (Chinese exporters, handwritten BOL annotations, non-standard formats).
- Does it work for DemurrageIQ-style workflows?
- Yes — Inspire AI Lab built DemurrageIQ on similar extraction primitives. The Logistics pack ships the document-intake half; the analytics + alerting half is your TMS or a downstream BI tool.
Run your worst logistics documents through the free tier.
500 credits/month is enough to evaluate against real work. See the actual accuracy before committing to a plan.