# Introduction

### Introduction

An invoice OCR is a way of extracting the relevant information from Invoices it using optical character recognition (OCR) techniques. Invoice OCR can help automate the process of capturing and processing invoices.

Masters India **OCR software and APIs will be** the best suitable for Businesses of all sizes like Startups, and, Small & medium business enterprises to automate their data extraction process from invoices in no time. This **OCR software & API** save time, and money, and reduce the effort of manual data entry and its errors. 

**What is the Masters India Invoice OCR solution:** This involves using AI & ML services to parse data from invoices using a pre-trained model that can extract schematized entities from various types of invoices. It does not depend upon a template; it can extract data from all types of Invoice templates.

### Type of Document Processed

1. Tax Invoice + E-way bill - E-invoice
2. QR code
3. Bill of Entry (Import + shipping Bill)
4. Delivery order

### Masters India Provides 2 environments for customers.

### Masters India Invoice OCR APIs

Masters India Provides Two APIs for customers

<table><thead><tr><th width="108.22224934895831">Name</th><th width="197.1851806640625">URL</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Auth API</td><td><a href="https://api-platform.mastersindia.co/api/v2/token-auth/">https://api-platform.mastersindia.co/api/v2/token-auth/</a></td><td>This will give you the Access Token then for authentication to work you will need to pass the token in the request <strong>headers</strong> of Upload API.</td></tr><tr><td>Upload API</td><td><a href="https://api-platform.mastersindia.co/api/v1/ocr/upload/">https://api-platform.mastersindia.co/api/v2/ocr/upload/</a></td><td>Where you will Upload the Invoice file as Input to OCR and get the response in JSON of extracted data.</td></tr></tbody></table>


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