My whitepaper, ‘AP Automation Strategy Whitepaper Richard Fishburn’, is now in its 1.4 version. I’ve included a full copy here. Version Date Description Version 1.0 23/01/2025 Stockists & Distributors, Food Supply, Construction & Import / Export: Purchasing, Delivery, Goods In, and Invoicing Version 1.1 27/02/2025 Adds Education, Requisition, Self Billing, Payment Terms and expands various… Read More »AP Automation Strategy Whitepaper: Version 1.4
FineReader has been around for some time, originally developed with a focus on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for scanned documents but now includes DocLang exports and containerisation support. In my previous blog post I introduced the concept of DocLang, an open specification for how documents are represented in a machine-readable format optimised for AI consumption.… Read More »ABBYY FineReader: the tool of choice for generating DocLang compliant output at scale.
Document processing traditionally relied upon OCR, templates and machine learning to get the job done. Whether your document was a structured layout such as a form or a semi-structured layout such as an invoice, intelligent document processing used 20-year-old tech to recognise and extract the required meaning and data. With the rise of generative AI… Read More »DocLang: an open specification for how documents are represented in a machine-readable format optimised for AI consumption.
It’s that time of year again when I start making the rounds of the financeSHOWCASE events. Yesterday I attended the Leeds event. My presentation this year focuses on the need to treat automation projects as process improvements projects first and foremost. It also covers process improvements workshops, how to prioritise, avoiding failure, the automation toolkit… Read More »financeSHOWCASE – Key Process Automation Principals
Establishing solid use cases for generative AI can be difficult. At Spectrum we’ve added GenAI to our enquiry management process to classify incoming customer communications and to our accounts payable solution to match invoice line descriptions to order line descriptions but until recently I hadn’t found a standalone ‘AI Agent’ I could back. Enter Paraglide.… Read More »AI Agents: Automating Accounts Receivables
Show all features is not effective……Such a great post from Max Luepertz on LinkedIn: This post follows on from my discovery meeting structure post but instead starts to answer the question ‘why do we do discovery in the first place’? There are lots of reasons to do discovery sessions: One of the biggest benefits to… Read More »A wild demo request appears: Pre-sales uses show all features!