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Intelligent document processing & OCR

Turn your stacks of Arabic and French files into structured, reliable, usable data.

-85%
Data-entry time reduction
96%
Field-extraction accuracy
80%
Straight-through automation
<10 s
Processing per document

The challenge

Administrations, banks and law firms are buried under paper or scanned documents: contracts, deeds, forms, statements, civil-registry files. Manual data entry is slow, costly and error-prone, while the information stays locked inside images that systems cannot use.

The difficulty is compounded by Arabic/French bilingualism, cursive connected Arabic script, complex layouts (tables, stamps, handwritten signatures) and uneven scan quality. Generic OCR fails on Arabic and does not understand the logical structure of documents.

Our approach

Shift builds an end-to-end document-processing pipeline. We start with layout understanding using LayoutLM-style models that identify text blocks, tables, signature areas and key fields, even on degraded documents.

Next comes a bilingual OCR specifically adapted to cursive Arabic and French, followed by LLM-based information extraction: the large language model reads the recognised text and extracts structured entities (parties, amounts, dates, clauses), with a per-field confidence score and business-rule validation.

Uncertain cases are routed to human review in a dedicated interface, and every correction feeds continuous improvement. The output integrates with your systems (ECM, core banking, ERP) via API, with a dramatic cut in processing times and full traceability.

Architecture

  • Layout analysis: LayoutLM / multimodal Document Transformer models
  • OCR: cursive-Arabic + French fine-tuned engines, post-OCR correction
  • Extraction: LLM with structured outputs (JSON), rule and schema validation
  • Human-in-the-loop: low-confidence field review queue, continuous learning
Models used
Document Transformer (LayoutLMv3)OCR (TrOCR Transformer fine-tuned AR/FR)Large language model (structured extraction)Object detection (tables, stamps, signatures)Document classification
Data required
Scanned documents (contracts, forms, deeds)Native PDFs and images of varying qualityTarget schemas for fields to extractAnnotated Arabic/French reference corpusBusiness validation rules per document type
Return on investment

An administration cuts its file-processing time by 85% and redeploys its staff to higher-value tasks.

Relevant sectors
Public sectorBankingLegal
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