Drop any bill of lading, air waybill or CMR — any carrier, any language, even a phone photo. Manifest extracts every field, mathematically proves what it read, prices what would hit your invoice wrong, and exports straight into your TMS.
Freight paperwork is full of self-checking identifiers — container numbers carry an ISO 6346 check digit, air waybills an IATA mod-7, ports a UN/LOCODE. Manifest recomputes the maths, reconciles the weights against each other, and shows you the exact spot on the scan every value came from — so what reaches your TMS is checked, not guessed.
No setup. Drop a file, check it in a minute, export to CargoWise.
Container numbers carry an ISO 6346 check digit. Air waybills carry IATA mod-7.
Ports are UN/LOCODE, Incoterms a closed set of eleven. Manifest recomputes every one —
and when a check fails, it tells you which and why.
Hover any field and the source document highlights the exact spot it was read from, magnified. Anything the extractor was unsure of is flagged, never hidden. Checking a document takes a minute instead of a hunt through small print.
200 carriers means 200 layouts. Correct a field once and Manifest keeps a rule for that sender, applied to every future document from them. Your review gets shorter every week instead of staying flat.
It also reconciles the numbers — net + tare vs gross, VGM vs SOLAS, volumetric vs actual on air — and, at your rate per kg, tells you what a gap would cost before it's invoiced.
The standards Manifest verifies against are worldwide. German, Polish, Arabic, Chinese — handwritten driver notes, weighbridge stamps, crumpled phone photos. Same canonical record out, every time.
Manifest is document processing software for freight teams. It combines AI OCR with a verification engine, so you get more than extracted text — you get a record that has been checked against the standards the document is supposed to obey.
Reads bills of lading, sea and air waybills, CMR notes, rail CIM, commercial invoices and packing lists. Scans, PDFs, phone photos — any carrier, any language.
Pulls every charge line, currency and amount, then reconciles declared weights and totals so a wrong figure is caught before it becomes a wrong invoice.
Exports clean rows into your TMS — CargoWise-style CSV, customs summaries, billing reconciliation or JSON. No re-keying, no swivel-chair between systems.
Container numbers against ISO 6346 check digits, air waybills against IATA mod-7, ports against UN/LOCODE, terms against Incoterms 2020, currencies against ISO 4217.
Bills of lading, sea waybills, air waybills and house air waybills, CMR road consignment notes, CIM rail notes, commercial invoices and packing lists — from any carrier, in any language.
OCR tells you what characters it saw. Manifest recomputes the identifiers it read — ISO 6346 check digits, IATA mod-7, UN/LOCODE, Incoterms — and tells you which values are mathematically proven, which fail, and which still need a human. Extraction is the easy half; proof is the point.
Yes. Every page of a PDF is rendered and read, and each extracted value is pinned to the exact place on the page it came from, so you can check any figure against the original in one hover.
OCR turns a scanned freight document into machine-readable text. In logistics that is only half the job: a container number read correctly and a container number read wrongly look identical in plain text. Manifest adds a verification layer — ISO 6346, IATA mod-7, UN/LOCODE — so a misread is caught rather than passed downstream into your TMS.
Three, in order of value. It removes re-keying, which is where most data errors enter a shipment file. It catches discrepancies — wrong weights, failed check digits, mismatched ports — while there is still time to fix them, instead of after an invoice is raised. And it makes the paperwork searchable, so finding one seal number does not mean opening twelve PDFs.
Low-resolution scans, carrier-specific layouts, and values that look plausible but are wrong. The last one is the dangerous one: an extractor confident about a container number that fails its own check digit. Manifest reports which values are mathematically proven, which fail, and which still need a human, rather than presenting everything with equal confidence.
Most freight software assumes clean structured data arrives from somewhere. In practice it arrives as a PDF attachment or a photo from a driver. Manifest is the step between the paperwork and the system of record — it turns documents into verified rows your existing tools can consume.
Yes. Nothing to install; documents are processed in the browser-facing app and stored against your account. There is no on-premise agent and no plugin for your TMS — exports are standard CSV and JSON.
It is not a TMS or an ERP and does not replace one. A supply chain management platform runs the shipment; Manifest makes sure the data entering it off the paperwork is correct. It sits in front of whatever you already use — CargoWise, an in-house system, or spreadsheets.
It uses AI OCR, but that is the input, not the product. Plain OCR gives you characters; AI OCR gives you fields. Neither tells you whether the field is right. Manifest recomputes what it read against the standards the document must obey and reports which values are proven and which are not.
Yes. Every page of a PDF is rendered server-side and read, so scanned PDFs, born-digital PDFs and multi-page documents all work. Each value is pinned to the exact spot on the page it came from, so you can check any figure against the original without opening the file.
For general documents, general-purpose OCR is fine and often free. For freight, the question is not who reads the characters best but who catches the misreads: a container number that fails its ISO 6346 check digit, a port code that is not a real UN/LOCODE, a gross weight that does not reconcile with net plus tare. That check is what Manifest adds.
Five documents free, no card needed. Enough to run your own paperwork through it and see how much it catches. After that, plans start at €49 a month and you can change or cancel any time.
Yes — generic TMS CSV, CargoWise-style CSV, a customs declaration summary, billing reconciliation, or full JSON.