A staff accountant at a 12-person accounting firm processes about 200 client documents every month: invoices, bank statements, loan agreements, lease contracts. At 8 minutes per document for manual entry (our benchmark scenario), that's 26 hours of work before a single journal entry is written.
The problem isn't speed. It's compounding error. A single transposed digit in a loan balance cascades through a reconciliation. It gets caught at review, corrected, re-entered. Each correction cycle adds approximately 45 minutes in our benchmark testing. In a busy month, two or three of these cycles are normal.
AI extraction replaces the re-keying, not the judgment. Every figure comes with a citation to the source document and page. There's nothing to re-key, only values to verify.
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Extract my client docs freeWhat Happens When You Upload an Invoice
When you upload a financial document to Eudoxic, the system extracts all structured fields: vendor name, invoice number, line items, total, due date, payment terms. For bank statements, it extracts account number, period, opening balance, closing balance, and transaction detail above a configurable threshold.
Every extracted value links to the source document and page. When a figure looks wrong, click the citation to pull up the original. No hunting through PDFs, no switching between windows.
A Benchmark: 14 Documents, 24 Minutes
In a benchmark test of a Q1 close scenario, 14 documents were processed: 6 invoices, 2 bank statements, a commercial lease, a business loan agreement, and 4 vendor contracts. Manual entry: approximately 2 hours, 3 correction cycles. With AI extraction: 4 minutes for initial extraction, 20 minutes for human verification of flagged figures. Total: 24 minutes.
The extraction also caught something the manual process had missed for two quarters: an interest rate adjustment clause in the loan agreement that had triggered an unnoticed $180 increase in monthly payments. The anomaly flag surfaced it on the first pass.
Exporting to Your Accounting Software
Once extraction is complete, every field across all documents is available as a structured CSV export via batch processing. The export maps directly to standard accounting software import formats. You're not reformatting data, you're pasting it in. Reconciliation becomes a spot-check against known-good citations.
For high-volume months, this compounds. 312 documents extracted in 41 minutes is what happens when you batch-upload a full client portfolio and run extraction across the workspace. The bottleneck shifts from data entry to review, which is where professional judgment adds value.
What Extraction Gets Wrong
Extraction is not accurate on every document. Handwritten notes, poor-quality scans, non-standard invoice formats, and foreign currency documents all reduce accuracy. Extraction on a clean, machine-generated PDF is reliable. Extraction on a faxed receipt from 1994 is not.
The practical rule: use extraction to eliminate the routine re-keying. For edge cases and flagged anomalies, review the source directly. The citation click tells you exactly which page to check.
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