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Capture – OCR detail settings

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

To change the OCR detail setting:

1. Select 'Company' from the side menu. Then select 'Settings'.
In the Settings panel, select 'Invoice Settings' and scroll down to 'OCR Detail'.

2. Select the dropdown under 'OCR Detail' and select the option you require.

3. Select 'Update' to save changes