Stop retyping scanned pages by hand. Upload any scan or photo and get structured spreadsheet data back automatically—no templates, no training, no manual zones.
Use a flatbed scanner, phone camera, or multi-function printer. The document scanner accepts any image quality and auto-corrects skew, rotation, and lighting.
The AI document scanner reads printed text, handwritten fields, and tables from your scanned pages. Every field is extracted with confidence scores—no manual keying.
Export scanned document data to Excel, Google Sheets, or CSV. Push results to cloud storage or downstream systems via the REST API.
“We had 14 filing cabinets of paper records going back to 2008. We scanned them in batches and had everything in searchable spreadsheets within two weeks.”
“Our warehouse team photographs delivery slips on their phones. The system picks up vendor names, quantities, and PO numbers from those photos without any setup on our end.”
“I tried three other scanning tools before this one. They all needed me to draw extraction zones for every new form. This just reads the document and gets it right.”
Audited controls over a sustained period, not a point-in-time check.
Bank-grade encryption at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit.
Documents deleted within 24 hours. No copies retained.
The best document scanner does more than create digital images of paper pages. It reads the content of those images and converts it into structured, searchable data—spreadsheet rows, database records, or API-ready JSON. Without this extraction step, scanned documents are just pictures sitting in a folder, no more searchable or useful than the paper originals they replaced.
Most organizations that attempt a paperless transition discover this gap quickly. They invest in a sheet-fed scanner, digitize thousands of pages, and end up with a drive full of PDFs that nobody can search or analyze without opening each one individually. The real value of digitization comes when the data inside those documents is liberated from the image and made available to the tools teams already use—spreadsheets, accounting systems, ERPs.
AI-powered document scanning closes this gap by treating scanning and extraction as a single workflow. You feed in a scan or a phone photo, and the AI identifies text, tables, headers, and field labels contextually. It does not need predefined templates or coordinate-based zones, which means it handles documents from hundreds of different sources without per-source configuration. Lido implements this approach and outputs directly to Excel, Google Sheets, CSV, or JSON.
For teams evaluating document scanning software, the critical question is not scan quality—any modern scanner produces adequate images. The critical question is what happens after the scan. If the answer is “someone retypes the data,” the digitization project has only moved the bottleneck from a filing cabinet to a monitor. Intelligent extraction eliminates that bottleneck entirely.
A flatbed scanner creates a digital image of a paper page but does not understand what is on it. AI document scanning goes further by reading the scanned image, identifying text, tables, and fields, and converting them into structured data you can work with in a spreadsheet or database.
Yes. AI-powered document scanning tools accept photos taken on any smartphone camera. The AI corrects for skew, lighting variation, and partial shadows automatically. You do not need dedicated scanning hardware to digitize and extract data from paper documents.
Modern AI document scanners recognize printed text with very high accuracy and increasingly handle handwritten annotations. Lido flags handwritten sections with lower confidence scores so a human reviewer can verify them rather than having them silently misread.
Scan pages in bulk using a sheet-fed scanner or multi-page PDF export, then upload the entire batch to an AI extraction tool. Lido processes multi-page documents and batch uploads without requiring you to split or pre-sort files, and outputs all extracted data into a single spreadsheet.
Lido offers 50 free pages to test document scanning and extraction. The Standard plan is $29 per month for 100 pages. Scale plans start at $7,000 per year for up to 42,000 pages. Enterprise pricing is available for organizations with compliance or custom integration needs.
Start free with 50 pages. Upgrade when you’re ready.
Built on Lido’s OCR engine
Built on Lido’s OCR engine
Built on Lido’s OCR engine