Use Case: Logistics

Bills of lading that stop being a manual bottleneck

BOLs don't follow a standard format. Parseloom learns your carrier templates once - then pulls consignee, shipper, commodity, weight, and reference numbers automatically.

Why BOLs Are Hard

What makes bills of lading resist generic OCR

50+ carrier formats

Every carrier arranges the same fields differently. What appears in the top-left for one carrier is in the middle column for another. No standard exists that carriers follow.

Handwritten annotations on printed forms

Drivers add handwritten notes over pre-printed forms. Weight gets corrected in pen. PRO numbers get added as a stamp. Generic OCR either misses these or confuses them with the printed text.

Multi-page freight packets

A single shipment can span a BOL, a packing list, and a rate confirmation - all formatted differently. Getting the right field from the right page requires document-type awareness, not just text extraction.

Extracted Fields

Typical BOL extraction map

Fields extracted from a standard carrier BOL, color-coded by category.

Party fields

shipper Atlas Mfg. Corp

consignee Pacific Dist. Co.

carrier Southwest Freight

Reference fields

pro_number PRO-8841209

scac SWFR

bol_number BOL-20241114

Commodity fields

commodity_desc Steel brackets, misc hdwe

weight_lbs 1840

freight_class Class 85

Date and address fields

ship_date 2024-11-14

origin_city Dallas, TX

dest_city Los Angeles, CA

Start extracting BOLs from your carriers

Upload 5-10 BOL examples from your main carriers and Parseloom sets up the extraction template.

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