Dext Prepare vs FormX Invoice OCR API

Dext Prepare captures receipts and invoices and extracts their details for bookkeeping. Documents can come in through the mobile apps, computer upload, supplier invoice fetch, or email. Dext says its AI extracts supplier, date, tax, and total with 99.9% accuracy, and the product can apply learned categorisation rules and flag duplicate transactions. It includes line-item extraction, purchase-order matching, and approval routing. Dext says it connects to 36+ accounting platforms, e-commerce platforms, and more than 11,500 banks and financial institutions; named examples include Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Shopify, PayPal, and Stripe. The annual Business plan is £290 a year, billed at £24.17 per month, excludes VAT, and includes 250 documents per month for five users. There is no free plan; a 14-day free trial requires no credit card. Access is available on Android, iOS, web, and as a Chrome or Edge extension. Dext says it is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and encrypts stored data with AES-256 and communications with TLS 1.2 or higher.

FormX Invoice OCR API extracts structured invoice information through a REST API for finance, accounting, and ERP systems. It can return vendor details, invoice numbers, dates, line items, subtotals, tax, grand totals, currencies, and payment terms. FormX says it combines OCR, machine learning, and large language models, and handles varied invoice layouts without templates. ZUGFeRD and Factur-X support covers visible PDF data and embedded XML. Results can be downloaded as Excel, CSV, or JSON, or delivered through API responses, webhooks, and batch processing. SDKs are listed for Python, Node.js, Java, and.NET. Named integrations include SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business One, Oracle NetSuite, QuickBooks, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Customers can customize or train extractors, with training from one sample image. FormX says API uploads are held in memory and discarded after extraction, encrypted with HTTPS, and not used to optimize models unless requested. Plans include pay-as-you-go at $0.30, paid once, Starter at $299 a month, and custom-priced Enterprise.