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Engineering deep-dives, release notes, and the decisions behind dOCR — written by the people who build it.

Latest launch document types

Introducing custom document types

You can now define your own field schemas and have dOCR return exactly those typed fields — nothing more, nothing less. What custom document types are, how to define one, and why they beat generic extraction.

Priya Raghavan

Co-founder & CTO ·

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engineering

Structured JSON, not raw OCR text

Why dOCR returns typed, validated JSON instead of a wall of OCR text — and how vision plus an LLM guided by a document-type schema gets you fields you can trust.

Mara Chen

engineering

Extracting data from multi-page PDFs

A 12-page invoice is not 12 documents — it is one document with fields scattered across pages and line items that overflow. Here is how dOCR reads the whole thing and returns one typed JSON object.

Mara Chen

guides

From dashboard to API: automating extraction

Prototype an extraction by hand, lock down the document type that gets it right, then wire it into your backend. The full path from a single upload to extraction at scale.

Priya Raghavan