01Invoice extraction
Invoice data extraction
Drop vendor invoices. Get rows you can edit, sort, and export.
Not a converter that hands you a file and forgets it. A table of vendor, invoice number, dates, and amounts that you keep, edit, and export as CSV or Excel.
The job
Invoices arrive as PDFs, scans, and photos. Someone on the AP desk retypes vendor, number, date, and total into a sheet or the books.
That person was not hired to type. They were hired to catch bad bills, match purchase orders, and close the month. The typing is what makes close late.
Invoice data extraction means those fields land as columns on their own. The human only touches the exceptions.
Fields Anyrow extracts
Sign-up creates an Invoices table with these columns. Every file you upload writes into the same columns, one row per invoice.
| Column | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| invoice_number | Find an invoice. Spot duplicates. |
| vendor, vendor_address | Group spend by supplier. Catch spelling drift. |
| bill_to, bill_to_address | Confirm the invoice is addressed to the right entity. |
| date | Booking period and aging. |
| due | What to pay this week. |
| currency | Do not sum dollars with euros. |
| subtotal, tax, tax_rate, amount | What you actually book, with tax split out. |
| payment | Payment terms or instructions as printed. |
| line_items | The individual lines of the invoice, kept with the row. |
Before and after
Before: invoices sit in an inbox or a shared drive. Someone opens a PDF, types vendor, number, date, and total into a spreadsheet, and opens the next one. Every invoice adds minutes of typing, and the minutes pile up at month-end.
After: drop the batch on the Invoices table. Rows appear, one per invoice. Fix the vendor name the model misread by editing the cell, open the source file from the row when a number looks off, and export Excel if the accountant still wants a file.
Why extract-to-CSV is still a mess
Most invoice tools stop at a file:
- A parser reads the PDF.
- A CSV or spreadsheet gets the dump.
- You clean the columns.
- You import the result into the books.
- Next week you repeat it, and the cleanup does not carry over.
Anyrow's bet is that the row should live in the product that extracted it. Edit in place, and export only when someone outside the table needs a file.
What we do not claim
Anyrow is early. Here is what it is not:
- Not Dext. If you run a QuickBooks-only shop and are happy with receipt capture, stay there.
- Not an ERP. We do not replace your books. Anyrow fills a table you export into them.
- No email-in, live Google Sheets sync, or accounting integrations today. File upload, table, and export are the loop.
Pricing
Free costs nothing and needs no credit card, so you can try real invoices first. Pro is $49/month through Stripe Checkout and includes 3,000 credits a month (one per page).
Canonical limits for every plan live on the pricing page. You pay for one product that extracts into a table, not a parser plus a spreadsheet plus a tool to connect them.
02FAQ
Invoice extraction questions
What is invoice data extraction?
Pulling the bookable fields of an invoice (vendor, invoice number, dates, currency, amounts, tax) out of a PDF or photo and into columns you can sort, sum, and export.
Does it work on scanned invoices?
Yes. Scanned PDFs and images (PNG, JPG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF) are accepted. Phone photos are harder than clean digital PDFs, so check odd rows against the source file, which opens from the row in one click.
Do I need a template per vendor?
No. Every invoice is extracted into the same Invoices table columns, whatever the vendor's layout. There are no zones to draw per vendor. If a field comes out wrong, you fix it in the row.
Can I export to Excel?
Yes. Export the table as CSV or XLSX at any time. The table stays in Anyrow, so next week's invoices land in the same columns.
Is this only for invoices?
Invoices are what Anyrow is built and tested for today. Sign-up creates the Invoices table, and that loop (upload, typed row, edit, export) is the one we stand behind.
Do I need a developer?
No. Upload, check rows, and export all happen in the dashboard. A REST API exists for teams that want to script uploads, but this job does not need it.
Try it on this week's invoices.
Create a free account, no credit card, and drop the invoices you were going to type anyway. If a field is wrong, edit the cell.