An autonomous document factory

Lector takes over the processing of incoming documents — end to end, traceable and scalable. Not an OCR tool. Not a rule set. Genuine document understanding.

What can Lector do?

More than reading.Understanding and acting.

Lector combines document understanding, context analysis and autonomous processing, and delivers structured results straight into your systems.

Classification & separation

Based on your own description of the document structure.

Powered by state-of-the-art generative AI models

No separator sheets or stamps required

Reliable recognition even for photos & handwriting

Animation: Lector reads a six-page letter, splits it into three documents and classifies them — invoice, cover letter, form, each with a confidence score.
Example data
Animation: Lector extracts invoice number, date and IBAN from an invoice into a structured record; the IBAN is validated against its check digit and marked as verified.
Example data

Deep extraction

Extraction of the relevant information based on your description

Precise processing of complex, unstructured documents

Recognition of handwritten content, too

Multimodal models that process both text and images

Simple. Scalable. Measurable.

How does lector work?

Automate the handling ofcases

Lector turns a full inbox into an automated workflow. Incoming mails and files are classified, split into individual documents and sorted by type; blank pages are removed and rotations corrected.

Lector extracts the relevant data from every document, including handwriting and markings. Incoming documents land exactly where they belong: in target systems such as CRM, line-of-business applications or DMS. You can review results, or have them processed fully automatically above a confidence threshold you choose yourself.

Manual sorting and forwarding disappear, and your inbox stays cleared day by day instead of piling up.

Stronger throughpartnerships.

OVHcloud BRYCK d.velop Technology Partner CGI aric InsurTech Hub Munich
OMNINET Software Solutions VALUNY Google for Startups German Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and State Modernisation — Agentic AI Hub

Why Lector

Lector vs. chatbots

A chatbot answers questions about documents.
Lector processes documents autonomously.

Lector vs. chatbots
Capabilities chatbots Lector
Understands documents yes yes
Answers questions about documents yes yes
Extracts relevant data limited yes
Classifies documents automatically no yes
Validates content & rules no yes
Handles cases autonomously no yes
Hands results to line-of-business systems no yes
Processes thousands of documents per month no yes
Traceable & auditable no yes

Build or buy

Lector vs. building it yourself

Azure Document Intelligence, AWS Textract & Co. are powerful tools – but tools. You get building blocks, not a finished house. Everything that turns building blocks into a document factory is already in Lector.

Lector vs. building it yourself
Topic Build it yourself with Azure, AWS & Co. With Lector
Models & providersConnect every provider separately; manage keys, rate limits, pricing and model changes yourselfMulti-model router: Gemini, GPT, Claude, Mistral, Qwen & Co. via Vertex AI, Azure, OVHcloud and Scaleway – selectable per step at a click, switching without rebuilding
Measuring qualitySet up test sets, metrics and comparisons by hand – or not at allEvaluation Center: verified reference datasets, metrics per document class, confusion matrices, model and configuration comparison on real documents
Prompts & configurationPrompt engineering by hand, iterating without toolingConfiguration assistant: an agent that creates document classes and fields from your description and improves prompts from your case handlers’ corrections
ScalingDesign and run your own architecture for queues, parallelism and autoscalingKafka-based processing: Kubernetes autoscaling, 10,000+ parallel sessions, millions of pages a month – without re-architecture
Integration into downstream systemsProgram and maintain every export and connection yourselfIntegration library: webhook and REST pull, email, DMS/ECM (e.g. d.velop, enaio), case-management systems via API, databases, RPA (UiPath, Power Automate)
TraceabilityBuild logging, history and UI yourselfAudit trail: every operation on every document – classification, correction, export – logged immutably, searchable and exportable
Document skillsDevelop classification, separation, extraction and validation yourselfBuilt in: separating bundled PDFs, classification, extraction, master-data matching, completeness checks – from years of project experience
Governance & complianceAssemble DPA, TOMs, no-training evidence and guardrails yourselfOut of the box: GDPR-compliant, EU hosting, no-training evidence per provider, document-specific guardrails, EU AI Act classification
Operations & updatesA team that keeps at it: model changes, refactoring, monitoringWe take care of it: continuous updates, monitoring of system and AI components, with an SLA if you want one

“The market and infrastructure around LLMs are as dynamic as it gets. With Lector we outsource the ‘chasing the technology’.”

Head of IT at a Lector customer

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