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      What do the different OCR Detail settings mean?

      Modulr Accounts Payable has OCR detail settings allowing you to determine the precision with which invoice line items will be extracted.

      What is OCR?

      OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. Our software can recognise imported or printed (scanned) text within images and output it in a digital format. We use this to extract key information from imported invoices, documents etc that you upload to Accounts Payable.

      The settings have three options regarding accuracy of capture vs. information captured.:
      1. Unit Amount
      2. Line Item Total
      3. Total 

      Unit Amount contains the most detail with some precision loss and Total offers maximum precision with some information loss. 

      1. Unit Amount 

      OCR will attempt to extract each line item with unit amounts and quantities. Line item totals and invoice totals are calculated from these. 

      Example:

      Invoice items unit amount

      2. Line Item Total 

      OCR will extract the total value of each line item and use that as the unit amount and will set the quantity to 11.00unit amount. 

      Example: 

      Invoice items line item total

      3. Total 

      OCR will extract the total for the invoice and create one line item using the description of the first line item. 

      Example:

      Invoice w total

      Please see our guide here for information on how to change your OCR Detail settings.