AI Builder Invoice Processing - multiple providers/models

[agorod01]

Hi. We’re trying out the invoice processing starter kit and have a couple of questions.

1. What's the number of different provider invoices / AI Builder models that the process can handle? I understand you need to train a separate AI Builder model for each provider. You then detect the provider based on the sender e-mail, and choose the appropriate model. What happens when you have 100 different providers? Or more? How many models can the system realistically handle?

2. Also would appreciate recommendations to other AI Builder capabilities (or potentially Azure Cognitive Services) to automatically detect the provider based on the invoice image, and not depend on the specific e-mail sender.

Thanks!

[CedrickB · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1. You are correct, at the moment you need one model per invoice layout. Though we are working on supporting several layouts in a single model. You would still have to pass at least 5 samples for each layout. This should be available by October.

There is no limitation in the number of models (At least a limit that you would reach unless you have hundreds of thousands providers.) 

2. There are several options. You could update the IPA Email flow by adding a actions calling an AI Builder object detection model to recognize the logo, you could use AI Builder entity extraction in the email message to get the company...