LOGISTICS INTELLIGENCE / BILL OF LADING

Extract Bill of Lading Data Automatically

Send us a bill of lading — scanned, PDF, or emailed. Mirage extracts every field your team keys in by hand and pushes it straight into your TMS, with anything unreadable flagged instead of guessed.

Built on the same document pipeline running at Transwin.

THE REALITY

A bill of lading carries every field a shipment record needs — shipper, consignee, cargo, container numbers, terms — and almost none of it arrives already structured. Someone still opens the scan, reads it, and types it into the TMS by hand.

WHAT MIRAGE DOES

From scanned document to structured shipment record

01

Reads any format, master or house bill

Scanned paper, PDF, or emailed bills of lading are all read the same way, extracting shipper, consignee, vessel or truck details, container and seal numbers, cargo description, and freight terms.

02

Flags what it can't read with confidence

A confidence score is attached to every extracted field. Handwritten entries, unreadable scans, or missing data are routed to a person instead of silently guessed at.

03

Pushes structured data into your TMS or WMS

Extracted fields land in CargoWise, Descartes, Magaya, or whatever system you already run — as structured data ready to use, not a PDF someone still has to open.

THE OUTPUT

Every field, extracted and confidence-scored

FieldExtracted ValueConfidenceStatus
ConsigneeTranswin Logistics SARL, CasablancaHighPushed to TMS
Container No.MSKU-7714203HighPushed to TMS
Cargo DescriptionA fold in the scanned document obscures part of the cargo weight — flagged for a person to confirm rather than pushed at low confidence.Fertilizer, bulk, 24,000 kgLow — partially obscured scanRouted for review
Freight TermsPrepaidHighPushed to TMS

PROOF

What bill of lading extraction looks like in production

Transwin

CargoScribe deployed against Transwin's actual freight and customs document mix

70% less manual data entry on freight documents

40,000 m² of warehousing and a 550-truck fleet's paperwork read the same way, every time

Read the case study

Ofret

2 tailored CargoScribe environments deployed, one per entity

1 shared TMS, zero extra software layers added

Same document-reading pipeline behind both its RFQ handling and its document processing

Read the case study

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Shipper, consignee, notify party, vessel and voyage or truck and trailer, container and seal numbers, cargo description, weight, and freight terms — the same fields your team keys in by hand today, read directly from the document.

Yes. Scanned paper BLs, PDFs, and emailed copies are all read the same way. Handwritten fields are extracted with a confidence score; anything below your threshold is flagged for a person to confirm rather than guessed at.

No. Both are read the same way, and if you work with freight forwarders who issue house bills against a master, Mirage extracts both and keeps the relationship between them rather than treating each as unrelated.

Extracted fields push directly into the TMS or WMS you already use — CargoWise, Descartes, Magaya, or others — as structured data, not a PDF attachment someone still has to open and re-type.

It's flagged rather than left blank or guessed. Missing consignee information, an unreadable container number, or a torn scan all route to a person with the rest of the document already extracted around the gap.

Yes, when both documents are available. Cargo description, weight, and container numbers on the bill of lading can be checked against the original booking or the commercial invoice to catch mismatches before they cause a customs hold.

Under four weeks on average to a production deployment: indexing a sample of your actual bill of lading formats first, then a parallel pilot on real incoming documents before anything is fully automatic.

Pricing starts with a fixed-price pilot run on a real batch of bills of lading, so you see the extraction accuracy before committing to anything larger. After that, it moves to an annual subscription priced by volume, quoted in your first conversation with us.

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