Document Management & CompliancePurpose
1.2. Facilitate automated cross-checking for compliance with customs regulations, tariff calculations, and rapid entry into customs systems, ERPs, and records management.
1.3. Automate error detection, flag data anomalies, and ensure high data accuracy for downstream automations including report generation and document archiving.
1.4. Support seamless automation of digital transformation in customs brokerage operations, reducing manual workload and expediting clearance cycles.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Scheduled polling of FTP/SFTP directories or ERP systems for new or updated documents.
2.3. API webhooks from carrier, freight forwarder, or client portals signaling new document readiness.
2.4. Manual upload initiation (user trigger) via web or mobile interface with automating data capture.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: AI Builder Form Processing for document content extraction; configure to parse shipping docs and trigger flow to custom systems.
3.2. UiPath
• Feature/Setting: Document Understanding framework with OCR/ML Extractor; workflow setup for automating shipping doc parsing.
3.3. Kofax TotalAgility
• Feature/Setting: Kofax OCR and extraction APIs; configure rules for customs-related field extraction.
3.4. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Email Parsing with MailParser/Zapier automatedly channels extracted customs data to CRM/ERP.
3.5. AWS Textract
• Feature/Setting: StartDocumentTextDetection API for document ingestion and data field mapping.
3.6. Google Cloud Document AI
• Feature/Setting: Document OCR and Extraction API; automate parsing and send data to Google BigQuery.
3.7. ABBYY FlexiCapture
• Feature/Setting: FlexiLayout Studio templates automate field mapping and extraction of legal shipment details.
3.8. IBM Datacap
• Feature/Setting: Automated document ingestion module and rules-based extraction for customs flows.
3.9. Azure Form Recognizer
• Feature/Setting: Custom form model for broker documents; automate data field identification and output to SQL.
3.10. SortSpoke
• Feature/Setting: Machine learning field extraction API for scaling automating import/export processing.
3.11. Hyperscience
• Feature/Setting: Human-in-the-loop data validation for automating complex document automation.
3.12. Ephesoft Transact
• Feature/Setting: Automated document capture and classification with REST APIs for brokerage automation.
3.13. Rossum
• Feature/Setting: AI-Driven Data Capture API; automatically extracts line-item details from trade docs.
3.14. ReadSoft Online
• Feature/Setting: Automatedly processes PDFs for shipment data with settings for customs compliance.
3.15. Blackthorn Vision OCR
• Feature/Setting: Automated data extraction service, integrating with third-party customs solutions.
3.16. Hypatos
• Feature/Setting: Neural network data extraction API, automatedly posts parsed data to ERP endpoints.
3.17. Parascript FormXtra
• Feature/Setting: Automated classification and data location for automating trade document processing.
3.18. Docparser
• Feature/Setting: Automated parsing rules setup; output via webhook to downstream automators.
3.19. Integromat (now Make)
• Feature/Setting: Automated OCR scenario with multi-step data mapping to customs platforms.
3.20. OpenText Intelligent Capture
• Feature/Setting: Automated drill-down capture and workflow orchestration for customs document automation.
Benefits
4.2. Enables real-time compliance monitoring, automating flags for regulatory violations.
4.3. Scales document handling capacity for brokers, supporting large volumes with minimal delay.
4.4. Improves audit trails by automatedly logging extracted data and document history.
4.5. Accelerates customs clearance cycles, automating data flows from ingestion to regulatory submission.
4.6. Increases security and consistency in document-driven brokerage workflows.