AI Assisted Trade Document Processing
Leverage modern AI technologies to eliminate manual data entry from unstructured documents like PDFs or Excel files to make your daily business easier
MIC DOCFLOW: Smart Trade Document Processing for Seamless Data Integration
Say goodbye to manual data entry - automate unstructured trade document handling with AI
According to leading market research, over 80% of enterprise data are unstructured. With MIC DOCFLOW, you can finally tap into this vast data pool using advanced Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) assisted by AI and machine learning. These technologies enable the transformation of unstructured content into structured inputs - making it usable for foreign-trade-processes and automating tasks that used to be too complex or costly to handle.
MIC DOCFLOW eliminates manual data entry from documents like PDFs and Excel files, streamlining integration flows without the need for expensive interface development. An AI agent extracts the data, supports validation for accuracy, maps it to the correct entities, and can even enrich it with foreign-trade-specific information such as tariff codes or product descriptions.
Whether used as a stand-alone solution or embedded directly into your customs and trade compliance applications, MIC DOCFLOW simplifies how your team works with unstructured data - saving time, reducing errors, and boosting efficiency.
Benefits
Automate Unstructured Data Processing
MIC DOCFLOW uses AI-assisted Intelligent Document Processing to extract unstructured data from PDFs, images, and spreadsheets and transform it into structured input - eliminating manual entry and enabling automation where traditional interfaces are too costly
Ensure Accuracy with Smart Validation
The system validates extracted data using rules for formats, codes, and document-specific logic. Combined with human review tools and AI confidence scoring, it ensures high data quality and reliability
Seamless Integration into Customs Workflows
MIC DOCFLOW integrates directly into MIC software modules or external systems via APIs, SFTP, or web services - making it easy to embed trade document automation into your existing processes
Highlighted Product Features
Multi-Channel Trade Document Ingestion
MIC DOCFLOW supports trade document input via web upload, email (with whitelisting), and REST API. This flexibility allows users to integrate trade document capture into their existing workflows with minimal effort, ensuring trade documents can be processed from various sources efficiently and securely.
Intelligent Trade Document Type Recognition
The system classifies trade documents by type - such as invoices, packing lists, delivery notes, and certificates of origin - and conducts the data extraction process accordingly. This targeted approach improves accuracy and reduces the risk of extracting irrelevant or incorrect data.
Support for Structured and Unstructured Formats
MIC DOCFLOW handles both structured formats (Excel, CSV) as well as unstructured formats (PDFs, images). It also supports composite trade documents, enabling the processing of multiple trade document types within a single file - ideal for scanned batches.
Smart OCR and Text Extraction
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is applied only when necessary, converting image-based trade documents into machine-readable text. Apache POI is used for Excel parsing. This ensures efficient processing while maintaining high accuracy for scanned or image-based content.
AI-Assisted Data Structuring with Vision API
Using MIC’s Vision API and commercial Large Language Models (LLMs), MIC DOCFLOW structures unstructured document data and transforms it into structured input. It supports multiple LLMs, allowing customers to choose based on performance, compliance, or cost. Individual instructions can be passed per transaction for tailored results.
Built-In Data Validation
The system validates extracted data against expected formats, code lists (e.g., ISO country codes, Incoterms), and document-specific rules. Validation results are clearly displayed, helping users quickly to identify and correct inconsistencies before further processing.
Guided Human Review Interface
Users can review extracted data side-by-side with the original document. The system highlights potential issues and provides AI-generated confidence scores and review hints, helping users focus on critical fields and ensure customs compliance.
Seamless Integration and Output Options
MIC DOCFLOW integrates with MIC software modules and other systems via SOAP, REST APIs, SFTP, and standard import/export interfaces. Extracted data is available in structured JSON format, enabling easy downstream processing and automation.
Composite Trade Document Handling
The solution can automatically classify and separate multiple trade document types within a single file. This is especially useful for scanned batches of paper documents, improving automation and reducing manual sorting or pre-processing.
Enterprise-Grade AI Infrastructure
MIC DOCFLOW uses leading commercial LLMs like OpenAI GPT or Anthropic Claude for best-in-class accuracy.
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