Bill of Lading OCR
Designed to help operations teams save time, reduce errors, and enhance overall workflow efficiency, providing real-time, reliable data extraction for critical logistics documents.
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Structured data from unstructured shipping docs
Capture all essential BOL fields, including sender/receiver, cargo details, and transport info—automatically.
Reliable across formats and layouts
Our model handles multi-page BOLs, handwritten annotations, stamps, and varying formats from different carriers.
Table and line-item extraction
Parse and structure goods descriptions, quantities, weights, and packaging units from BOL item tables.
Maxime Rihouey
Lead ML Engineer, Spendesk
Designed for software integration:
Developer-first API
Built for seamless integration into TMS, WMS, or ERP systems.
Scalable and fast
Supports high-volume processing for logistics providers, 3PLs, and freight forwarders.
Flexible input support
Accepts PDFs, scans, camera photos—even mobile-captured documents from drivers.
Self-hosted or SaaS
Run it in our cloud or deploy it in your infrastructure—your choice.
Mindee helps logistics teams process bills of lading faster and with fewer errors:
- Reduce manual data entry
- Minimize errors in BOL transcription
- Accelerate shipment registration and validation
- Improve inventory and dispatch tracking
- Eliminate mismatches between BOLs and POs
- Free up operators from repetitive document tasks
Transform your workflow with:
Instant data availability
Turn paper-based BOLs into actionable data in real time.
End-to-end shipment automation
Trigger workflows directly from BOL data—no human input required.
Quality control made simple
Use confidence scores to route low-trust fields to human review.
Compatible with logistics tech stack
Integrate with your existing systems via API or middleware.
Mindee automates the extraction of bill of lading data to reduce friction in logistics workflows:
- Document parsing from inbound and outbound BOLs
- Data capture for parties, references, commodities, and transport terms
- Verification of shipments against orders and receipts
- System updates for dispatch, receiving, and audit logs
- Exception alerts for missing data or mismatches
- Audit trails for traceability and compliance
Built for logistics documents
Purpose-trained on thousands of BOLs across carriers and geographies.
Industry-leading accuracy
Captures line-items, tables, and fields even on low-quality scans.
Easy to implement
No complex setup—start extracting BOL data in minutes.
Scales with your needs
Flexible pricing and infrastructure options for startups to enterprises.
Privacy-first
Data is encrypted and never stored, with full audit support.
Trusted by logistics leaders
Powering automation for freight forwarders, 3PLs, and warehouse ops.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about our intelligent document processing solutions.
How can I test the Bills of Lading OCR API?
Our Bills of Lading API is free to use and available to any user having an account on our platform.
To test our APIs, you only have to create a free account using this link, and you'll be able to drag and drop Bills of Lading in the live interface to see the data extracted in real-time and JSON response. A demo page is also available here.
Is Mindee's Bills of Lading OCR API free to use?
A free plan is available to everyone and allows you to perform 250 Bills of Lading processing per month for free. No credit card is required.
Above 250 Bills of Lading per month, the price per Business Cards processed starts at $0.10 and can decrease to $0.01 per Bills of Lading depending on the monthly volume. See the pricing page for more information.
Bills of Lading : What are the supported countries?
What are the supported countries?
Our Bills of Lading OCR API is based on our computer vision technology that doesn't rely on text to extract the Bills of Lading data, but only on the image. This removes the language limitations.
The OCR was trained with Bills of Lading from more than 50 countries and works on bills of lading from all around the world for numeric fields, and all Latin alphabet countries for text ones.
Bills of Lading : How complicated is it to integrate the API?
How complicated is it to integrate the API?
Mindee's API follows HTTP standards in order to allow any developer to integrate the Bills of Lading OCR API into their applications easily.
We also offer a set of client libraries in all the main back-end languages, and an open-source UI toolkit that helps create front-end features. You can check out our open-source repository or our API documentation for more details.
Bills of Lading : What is the OCR accuracy?
What is the OCR accuracy?
Our Bills of Lading OCR's accuracy is above 90%, with precision above 95% for most of the fields. These performances are computed on a data set including more than 50 countries.
Testing our OCR API is free, all you need is an account. Feel free to drop Bills of Lading in the live interface to see the OCR performance on your data.
Bills of Lading : What's the average API response time?
What's the average API response time?
The processing time is around 1.3 seconds per page for pdfs and 0.9 seconds for a Bills of Lading image.
We often improve this processing time and our target is below 500ms. Our goal is to make sure you can create real-time user experiences in your application.
Bills of Lading : Does the OCR work on low-quality images?
Does the OCR work on low-quality images?
Yes, the OCR was trained on a lot of Bills of Lading from a wide variety of layouts and image quality and learned to process the most complex ones.
We also use data augmentation to make sure that no blur or ink stains prevent the OCR from reading the data as long as it's readable.
Do you offer technical support?
We have a Slack community where you can ask your questions and chat with our team.
We don't do the integration in your infrastructure ourselves but we can set up a custom level of support on a per-case basis if needed.