Lido

Anyone who has ever dealt with accounts payable or invoice entry knows the special misery of template-based OCR: change a logo, shift an invoice number down two centimeters, and the parser chokes. Lido takes a layout-agnostic approach to intelligent document processing (IDP), parsing messy PDFs, scans, and emails straight into structured spreadsheets without requiring manual coordinate mapping or days spent training custom models.

Under the hood, Lido blends computer vision, OCR, and language models to read documents contextually, whether you feed it clean digital PDFs or wrinkled, handwritten driver tickets. You set up extraction rules simply by writing plain-English instructions inside spreadsheet-style AI Columns. Beyond standard data capture, it handles multi-page line items, automated purchase order reconciliation with fuzzy lookups, and financial statement cross-checking. Much like RowSpeak simplifies extracting tabular data from scanned documents into workbooks, Lido bridges the gap between raw document ingestion and automated business workflows.

Key capabilities include:

• Template-free extraction: Ingests invoices, receipts, bank statements, bills of lading, and medical claim forms across hundreds of layouts on the first try.
• Spreadsheet-native workflow: Works directly in a familiar table interface with Excel-compatible formulas, computed logic, and automated exports to Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, or CSV.
• Automated ingestion & delivery: Captures incoming attachments through a dedicated email parser inbox or cloud drives, and pushes data into downstream tools like QuickBooks, Slack, or ERP systems.
• Developer & agent toolset: Provides a public REST API alongside an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, allowing AI coding assistants like Claude or Cursor to extract document data directly from the terminal or prompt window.
• 24-hour reprocessing safety net: Documents can be re-run with adjusted instructions within 24 hours of upload without consuming extra extraction credits.