Shipping document parsers for ocean, air and customs paperwork

Software that reads a freight document and returns its contents as structured fields rather than as page text. A document-specific parser knows that a Bill of Lading has a consignee, four routing points and a container table, so it maps values to meaning instead of returning a wall of characters that still has to be interpreted by hand.

Generic OCR converts images to text. It does not know which block is the notify party, which of four place fields it is looking at, or which weight belongs to which container. GainingDocx adds a document-specific field model on top of reading, then runs deterministic validation in code — container check digits, port codes, weight and package arithmetic — so results carry a reason rather than a confidence score.

Bills of lading, sea waybills, arrival notices and booking confirmations for ocean; air waybills, shipper's letters of instruction, dangerous goods declarations, cargo manifests and security declarations for air; and commercial invoices, packing lists, purchase orders, freight invoices and goods receipts across both modes.

No. Your first document can be parsed without signing up, and anonymous test parses are processed without being retained against an account. Signing in gives you a private workspace where documents, review history and exports are stored and can be deleted at any time.

Native PDFs, scans and photographs, including images taken on a phone at a terminal or warehouse. Multi-page documents and continuation sheets are processed page by page, which matters for packing lists and manifests where tables routinely run over a page break.

Accuracy varies with document quality, and the honest design response is not to claim otherwise. Extracted values stay next to the source so they can be confirmed, deterministic checks flag anything the arithmetic cannot support, and the review step exists precisely because a field a person confirms in two seconds is worth more than a field a model asserted confidently.

Yes. Grouping documents as one shipment compares parties, references, quantities, weights, containers and descriptions across the whole set, and reports the disagreements as prioritised discrepancies rather than leaving them to a manual side-by-side read.

Excel workbooks with line items and container rows on their own sheets, CSV for flat feeds, structured JSON that preserves array detail, and PDF review reports. Reviewed data can also be pushed to a downstream system through a connector rather than re-keyed.

No. Validation detects internal inconsistency — arithmetic that fails, references that contradict each other, dates in an impossible order. It cannot authenticate an issuer or confirm that a carrier actually issued a document. Confirm existence and validity through the issuing party's own systems.

Signed-in documents are stored privately in your own workspace and are not shared between accounts. You can export or delete them at any time, and deletion removes the document together with its extracted data.