Dext Prepare vs Veryfi Invoices 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.

Veryfi Invoices OCR API extracts invoice information into structured JSON, including vendor details, line items, tax, and totals. It accepts documents such as PDFs and images, and the response includes OCR text for downstream applications. Veryfi says the API supports over 150 fields covering supplier, line-item, tax, and payment data. The product page describes checks for altered or duplicate invoices, including digital tampering analysis, PDF layer analysis, and duplicate detection. Developer resources include SDKs and code samples for Python, Node.js, PHP, C#, and Java, among other languages; n8n and Zapier are listed for workflow connections. Veryfi states that its platform is SOC 2 Type II certified and uses TLS 1.2 and 1.3, salted password hashing, and AES encryption at rest and in transit. It says it complies with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, and will sign a BAA upon request. The API is described for accounts payable, bill pay, and three-way purchase-order matching. The free plan allows up to 100 documents monthly. Starter costs $500 a month, with a minimum commitment and a listed $0.16; each transaction covers a document up to 15 pages.