Bill of lading data extraction, without the re-keying.
DeepPixel reads ocean and truck bills of lading, from any carrier, and returns shipper, consignee, routing, container and weight data ready for your TMS or customs workflow. 99% accuracy, with human-in-the-loop review when required.
Why bills of lading are hard to automate
Generic OCR turns a B/L into text. Your team still has to find the right values in it.
Every carrier uses its own layout
The same field sits in a different box on every line's master B/L, and your house B/Ls add another format. Template OCR breaks as soon as a layout shifts.
Containers live in nested tables
One B/L can list dozens of containers, each with its own seal, package count and weight, often continued on a rider page.
Scans, stamps and handwriting
Faxed copies, stamped originals and handwritten corrections are normal. They are exactly where manual keying errors come from.
Fields extracted from every bill of lading
Header fields plus every container line, including rider pages.
Parties
- Shipper
- Consignee
- Notify party
- Carrier and SCAC
- Forwarding agent
Routing
- Place of receipt
- Port of loading
- Port of discharge
- Place of delivery
- Vessel and voyage
Cargo
- Container and seal numbers
- Package count and type
- Gross weight
- Measurement
- Description of goods
Reference and terms
- B/L number
- Booking reference
- Freight terms (prepaid / collect)
- Shipped on board date
- Number of originals
How it works
Send documents the way they arrive
PDFs and scans from email or upload. No templates to build per carrier.
Extract, then review what needs it
DeepPixel reads every field and line item. Fields it is not confident about go to human review instead of straight into your system.
Get data in your layout
Clean, structured output that matches the fields your team keys today.
Bill of lading extraction FAQ
What is bill of lading data extraction?
It is the process of reading a bill of lading and turning its contents (parties, ports, containers, weights, goods description and terms) into structured data, so nobody has to type it into a TMS, customs filing or spreadsheet by hand.
Which types of bills of lading can DeepPixel read?
Ocean master and house bills of lading, and truck or LTL bills of lading, whether they arrive as native PDFs or scanned images. The 2-week pilot runs on your own documents, so you see results on the exact carriers and formats you handle.
What is the difference between a master and a house bill of lading?
The carrier issues the master B/L to the freight forwarder. The forwarder issues a house B/L to its own customer, the actual shipper. Forwarders usually handle both for the same shipment, which doubles the keying work and creates matching problems when the two disagree.
How accurate is it?
DeepPixel delivers 99% accuracy, with human-in-the-loop review when required. During the pilot we measure accuracy on your documents against your own data, not a vendor benchmark.
What happens with handwritten or poor-quality scans?
Low-confidence fields are flagged and routed to human review rather than passed through silently, so a smudged weight or handwritten correction does not end up in your system unchecked.
Is our shipment data secure?
DeepPixel is SOC 2 Type II. We sign an NDA before any documents move.
Test it on your own bills of lading
A fixed-fee, 2-week pilot on your documents and your carriers. See how the logistics pilot works, or talk directly with the founders: giri@deeppixel.ai