Dext Prepare vs Invofox

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.

Invofox extracts structured information from PDFs, images, and scanned files, returning JSON through an API. Its pipeline handles OCR, document splitting and classification, field extraction, schema mapping, validation, and webhook delivery. Custom schemas let teams map extracted fields to their own data models. Invofox reports 99.2% document extraction accuracy and says reported mistakes are automatically credited back. Zapier can route extracted data to more than 9,000 apps, including Google Drive and Google Sheets. Invofox states that it complies with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA, and encrypts data in transit with TLS 1.3 and at rest with AES-256. Cloud is the default deployment. Zero retention is an opt-in for Scale and Enterprise, while on-premise deployment is reserved for Enterprise. The Free plan covers 500 pages and includes pre-trained models for invoices, receipts, utility bills, tickets, and payslips. Starter costs $500 a month, billed annually, for up to 5,000 pages per month. Scale and Enterprise have custom pricing.