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Pipedream + LLM extract freight bills and customer POs for a small distributor
med specificsAdded 2026-10-14
- Business
- Small company with accounting/sales team (accounting person posting on HN)
- Task
- Data entry from freight bills and customer purchase orders; sales-rep PO app; shipping paperwork (BOLs, packing lists, scale tickets)
- Result
- "Now I just have to review and occasionally make a few tweaks vs. having to enter everything by hand"
- Tools
- Setup
- Pipedream workflows send freight bills and POs to an LLM to extract data
- human reviews
- built a small web app so sales reps create their own POs
- Source
- hn.algolia.com ↗
- Specifics rating
- med specifics high = concrete numbers/quotes; med = partial; low = qualitative
Results as reported by the source; not independently verified.
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