Send an invoice, a receipt or a bank statement as a PDF, a scan or a phone photo. Takarda AI reads it, draws a box round every value on the page, and flags anything that does not add up before you download it.
What to pull out: invoice number, date, total
Your workspace
Six screens from the real workspace, with receipts that Takarda read. Pick a tab, and click a screen to see it full size.
Each list you have made shows its files, how many are waiting for a look and how many are confirmed.
The count at the top shows the pages you have left this month.
Pick the ready list nearest your document, such as an invoice, a receipt or a bank statement, or start with a blank one.
Then name each value you want, say what kind it is, and change any field you like.
Each file is one row and each value you asked for is one column.
A mark on every value says whether it was found on the page, so nothing is filled in to look complete.
Receipt photos on these screens are from the public CORD v2 set by NAVER Clova, licence CC BY 4.0.
Click a value and its box lights up on the page, with a close-up of what was read beside it.
Warnings stay in view, and a person confirms each file before it can be downloaded.
Receipt photos on these screens are from the public CORD v2 set by NAVER Clova, licence CC BY 4.0.
Download your checked files as Excel, CSV or JSON, and choose how lists are shown.
If a file still has warnings, Takarda lists every one first and asks you to confirm.
Receipt photos on these screens are from the public CORD v2 set by NAVER Clova, licence CC BY 4.0.
Make a key, and your own software can send files and read the values back.
Each file it sends counts against your pages like any other upload.
Read your own files after you sign up: the free plan reads 30 pages a month.
Documents and formats Takarda reads
Counted on real documents
87 pages read: two real bank statements and a public quarterly report. Each figure is counted against an answer key and says what it counts.
On two bank statements
983 of 983
On two real bank statements, 48 pages together. None missed, none invented.
100% counted
On two bank statements
1,966 of 1,966
Every printed amount and every running balance. On one statement 92 amounts kept their printed minus sign.
100% counted
On two bank statements
1,358 of 1,365
When Takarda drew a box it sat on the right value, but it drew one for only 1,365 of 3,932 values.
99.5% counted
On a public report
19 of 19
A public quarterly report of a listed Nigerian bank, 37 pages, each field shown with its box, in 1 minute 42 seconds.
100% counted
These are the figures of the version tested. Changes made since have not been measured again. What went wrong is listed on each document below, not left out.
Customers email PDFs, suppliers send photos on WhatsApp, branches hand in paper, and banks send statements from an app. Upload them as they come, one file or a whole folder.
Takarda reads each file, checks the sums and the missing values, and shows the page beside every value. You confirm it, then download Excel, CSV or JSON.
Field lists
Pick a ready field list for invoices, receipts, bank statements and more, or start blank. Each field is a name, a sentence saying what to look for, and a typical value.
Write the field name, what to look for, and a typical value, as you would explain it to a new colleague. Takarda uses the same field list on every file, so each one comes back in the same columns.
No training needed. There are no files to label. If a value comes back empty, reword the sentence and read the file again.
See the ready field listsClick a value and its box lights up on the page, so you can check it in a second instead of hunting for it.
Nothing is filled in to look complete. If the page does not show a value, it says Not on the page and stays empty, and a required value that is missing raises a warning.
How the boxes are drawnSee it work
These are screens of Takarda as it runs, taken while reading real documents. Use the list to jump to a step, or just scroll.
1Step 1 of 4
Pick the ready list nearest your document, or start blank, then name each value you want. Every field has a plain description and a kind, such as text, a date or an amount in naira.
Measured: fields on a public report
2Step 2 of 4
Add PDFs or phone photos to a list. Each file becomes one row of data, and the list keeps count of the files waiting for a look and the pages you have left.
Measured: reading time
3Step 3 of 4
Click a value and its box lights up on the page. A value the page does not show says Not on the page, and nothing is filled in to look complete. Warnings stay in view, and a person confirms each file.
Measured: boxes
4Step 4 of 4
One row for each file, with a mark on every value: on the page, not on the page, check, doesn't match, corrected or confirmed. When a person has confirmed the files, download them as Excel, CSV or JSON.
Measured: cost to read
Naira at ₦1,600 to the dollar.
Receipt photos on these screens are from the public CORD v2 set by NAVER Clova, licence CC BY 4.0.
What you can count on
Three things hold for every document you upload, whatever its type.
PDFs, phone photos, scans, Word and text files go in. Each file comes back as one row in the same columns, so a crooked photo and a clean PDF sit side by side.
The lines are added up against the subtotal and VAT at 7.5% is checked. A sum that is out says Doesn't match, with both numbers beside it. Takarda never changes a value to clear a warning.
Check each file beside its page, then confirm it. Only confirmed files go into the Excel, CSV or JSON file, and every correction keeps the original reading beside it.
Who uses Takarda
Any business that receives documents from customers, suppliers or clients and types them into a spreadsheet or accounting software.
Each customer's order as rows of product, quantity and price, matched to your own product list.
Every client's paperwork in one spreadsheet, with totals and VAT checked and the page beside each figure.
Shipper, consignee, containers, weights and goods as clean rows, instead of retyping them from scans.
Opening and closing balances and every transaction as a table, with a warning when money in and out does not add up.
Name, contacts, jobs, schooling and skills from every CV in one sheet you can sort and filter.
Parties, dates, amounts and terms pulled out of each contract, with the page they came from.
Tested on real documents
Takarda read two real bank statements and a public quarterly report. Every figure is counted against an answer key taken from the document's own text and checked row by row by two people. These are the figures of the version tested.
Bank statement · 36 pages · 819 rows
Two months, two accounts in one file (a wallet and a savings account), phone-bank PDF
Counted
None missed, none invented.
Money in or money out, to the kobo.
Lower is better; zero is the right answer.
28 of the 38 misses differ only in spacing; 6 lost the first line where the row starts at the bottom of a page; 4 have misread characters.
Weak spot
A weakness of the version tested: most right values had no box and said Not on the page.
What went wrong
page 1 of 36
page 22 of 36Bank statement · 12 pages · 164 rows
Nine months, newest first, one signed amount column, phone-bank PDF
Counted
None missed, none invented.
92 money-out amounts were stored with their printed minus sign.
Weak spot
What went wrong
page 1 of 12Company report · 37 pages · 19 fields
Interim consolidated accounts, 37 pages, amounts in millions of naira; read with a field list of 19 fields written for it (no ready list)
Counted
A check that passed: total liabilities plus total equity equals total assets.
What went wrong
Nothing was wrong on this report in the test. One report with 19 fields is a small test, so it says little about other reports.
Read from a picture of one page
Shop receipts · 2 pages · 10 rows
A supermarket and a body care shop in Abuja: thermal paper with pen marks across the shop names, creases and shadows, taken with an iPhone
Counted
Shop, receipt number, date, total and how it was paid, on each receipt.
Tax ID, subtotal, VAT and currency, which neither receipt prints.
None missed, none invented.
Quantity, item, unit price and amount on every row.
What went wrong
How these were measured
Built from each PDF's own text, with the position of every character, then checked against what the document says about itself: its transaction counts, totals, opening and closing balances and every running balance. Two people then compared the key with the page pictures and found no problem.
Takarda's rows were matched to the key's rows by date, amount and balance. Every cell was compared by value: money to the kobo, dates by the day, descriptions word for word once spacing is ignored. Each box was compared with the key's position for the same cell.
These are the figures of the version tested. Changes made after the test (more boxes on statement rows, one check for each account, dates with a time, amounts without their minus sign, fewer wasted reads, descriptions across a page break) have not been measured again and are not counted here.
87 pages read in all.
Public receipts
Each card is one measured result from a public set of real receipt photos: the figure, what was counted, how many, and where the receipts come from. They test where Takarda puts the box for each value; they are not a score for every kind of document.
Words as annotated
96.8%
Boxes that sat on the words they point to. Counting only the boxes that closely match the words gives the same figure.
Words as annotated
73.0%
Values Takarda found a box for. The rest are marked Not on the page, never guessed.
Words as annotated
100%
Receipts that print no total, where Takarda said Not on the page.
Words as annotated
2.7%
Boxes that touched none of the words they should have marked. Lower is better.
Source 200 public receipts with their annotated words. CORD v2, NAVER Clova, CC BY 4.0
How it works
Set it up once. After that, each document is a drop and a download.
Pick a ready field list or start your own. Say what to pull out in plain words, one sentence for each field.
Drop in PDFs, scans, phone photos, Word or text files. One at a time, or a whole folder at once.
Check each file beside its page and confirm it. Then download Excel, CSV or JSON, one row for each file.
By hand or with Takarda
The same pile of documents, two ways of getting it into your spreadsheet.
Read the page, type the value, move to the next one.
Takarda reads the page. You check and confirm.
Where the data goes
Every confirmed file becomes rows you can open in a spreadsheet, load into your accounting software or fetch from your own system.
One sheet, one row for each file, list fields on a sheet of their own.
Opens in any spreadsheet and loads into most accounting software.
Every value with its page and box, for your developers.
Load the CSV through your software's own import.
Upload files and fetch rows from your own system with an API key.
Security
Documents carry names, prices and signatures. This is what happens to them.
Stored in Africa (Johannesburg). Takarda AI reads each page in the European Union.
Takarda does not use your documents to train any model.
Files travel over an encrypted connection and are stored encrypted.
Each correction and confirmation is logged with who made it. The original reading stays beside it.
Pricing
A one-page document is one page. Reading again after you change a field list is free, and so are members and reviewers. Every plan has every field list and every download.
Included
Included
Included
Starter and Pro are paid by card or direct debit, month to month.
Your field lists, product list and download files, set up for you.
From ₦350,000 a month About $248
From 4,000 pages, with extra pages quoted. Paid by bank transfer invoice.
Talk to usWe build your field lists, load your product list and prices, and shape the download to fit your system.
From 4,000 pages a month, extra pages quoted.
Prices in naira, month to month, plus VAT of 7.5%. Dollar amounts are a guide.
Questions
No. You describe each field in a sentence and give a typical value. There are no models to train and no files to label. If a value comes back empty, reword the description and read the file again. Reading again after you change a field list is free, 3 times a day for each file.
PDFs, JPG, PNG and HEIC pictures, Word (.docx) files and plain text (.txt) files. A file can have up to 100 pages and be up to 20 MB, and you can upload up to 50 files at once. A file Takarda cannot open is refused with a plain note on what to send instead.
It reads Not on the page and stays empty. Takarda does not guess to fill a gap. A value that is found points to a box on the page. Some wrong readings can still get through, which is why you look at each file and confirm it before you download.
Yes, and nothing downloads until you do. Open a file and see the document beside its values. Correct what is wrong, and Takarda keeps the original reading beside your change. Only files you have confirmed go into the download.
Excel, CSV or JSON, with one row for each confirmed file. A list such as invoice lines can be spread so every line gets its own row, or kept as one cell. A cell that starts with = or + cannot run as a formula. The purchase order field list also has a sales order download.
They are visible to the people you invite. Stored in Africa (Johannesburg). Takarda AI reads each page in the European Union. The Nigeria Data Protection Act treats both as transfers out of Nigeria, so we disclose them. Our privacy notice names the provider and explains how each is covered.
Yes. Naira amounts, VAT at 7.5%, Tax IDs and dates written day then month are read as printed, and phone photos are straightened before reading. The ready field lists are worded for Nigerian paperwork, and you can change any word.
The Free plan reads 30 pages a month. Paid plans start at ₦30,000 a month for 250 pages, in naira, month to month. You pay for the pages Takarda reads, not for the people on your team.
More questions?
Ask us about your own documents.
Make a field list, drop in a document and check every value beside its page.