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Bills of Lading: The Small Document That Stops Big Shipments

Shipment delays are expensive.

Yet many of them are caused by paperwork, not logistics.

Bills of Lading (BOLs) are essential documents that move between shippers, carriers, and customers. In many companies, these arrive as PDFs, scans, or photos.

Before a shipment can move forward, someone manually checks and enters the data.

Where Things Break

Manual BOL handling introduces risk:

  • Missing consignee details

  • Incorrect weights or quantities

  • Wrong shipment references

Any of these can place a shipment on hold and trigger disputes.

Why This Is Still Manual

Bills of Lading vary widely in format.

Tables shift. Fields move. Scans are imperfect.

Traditional OCR tools extract text but fail to understand structure, which forces teams to rely on manual review.

Automating BOL Extraction

Scanny AI allows logistics teams to define exactly which BOL fields they need.

It reads the document visually, understands structure, and extracts clean, structured data from PDFs and images.

The result:

  • Fewer shipment holds

  • Fewer disputes

  • Faster, smoother handoffs

The Real Impact

When paperwork stops blocking shipments, operations become predictable again.

If your team handles Bills of Lading manually, this is one of the highest-leverage processes to automate.

Learn how Scanny AI helps logistics teams automate BOL extraction → scanny-ai.com

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