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Show HN: Boards – Automate document-heavy tasks

by ntkris on 7/17/24, 3:08 PM with 10 comments

We are excited to announce Boards. Boards are flexible tables that help you structure and make sense of data that lives in PDFs, pictures and more.

Many business users spend time extracting key information from files like invoices, contracts and other documents. Boards eliminate the need for this by focussing on 3 things: 1. Flexibility: boards can be easily tailored to suit your business. Start from a template or create a board from scratch. 2. Automating data entry: to import information into your board, simply upload files or email your board. 3. Simplifying change: when a business process changes, we make it super easy to add columns to your board and backfill them.

We believe software of the future is truly custom and boards are built with this principle in mind. Some of the things you can use boards for: - Tracking supplier payments - Customer orders - Managing contracts and agreements

Check out the product demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/8893fd608ab842c39298db7a93a640f7

  • by pedalpete on 7/17/24, 11:29 PM

    Looking at the pricing, a "credit" is dependent on the size and complexity of the content, but you haven't provided me with any idea what size or complexity mean, so it's a complete black box.

  • by constantinum on 7/18/24, 4:14 AM

    if anyone looking to solve this with open-source, try Unstract - https://github.com/Zipstack/unstract

  • by isawczuk on 7/18/24, 6:56 AM

    If I understand correctly this tool focuses on ability to create easily extractors from documents. I'm wondering who is your target audience? If it's a company operations (accounting, procurement, etc),you missed it, they want to setup once then use it and access documents. If it's for developers to quickly build extractors for different company ops, then I'm missing API, scoring, integrations.

  • by SebRollen on 7/17/24, 8:45 PM

    Do you have an API?

  • by voltaireodactyl on 7/17/24, 9:34 PM

    What is the privacy policy?