Solutions / Purchase order parsing
Purchase order parser for automated procurement workflows
Extract suppliers, purchase-order headers, delivery terms, totals, and repeating line items into relational data ready for ERP and internal systems.
- ✓ Reusable relational schema
- ✓ Dashboard or API workflow
- ✓ SQLite, JSON, CSV, or XML export
Product video coming soon
See a purchase order become structured procurement data
This video will show a purchase order being parsed into supplier, order, and line-item tables and then submitted through the API.
Transformation
purchase-order.pdf → PDFParse → suppliers + purchase_orders + line_items
Relational output
Select a relationship to explore →
purchase_orders
Relationship: purchase_orders.id → purchase_order_items.purchase_order_id
Try the API
Extract from your code.
Submit an uploaded document using an existing schema. PDFParse queues processing asynchronously; retrieve completed records through the same API. Applications and AI agents use this endpoint too.
# Documents must already be uploaded to your active project.
curl -X POST https://api.pdfparse.net/v1/jobs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PDFPARSE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"tableSlug": "invoices",
"documentKeys": ["uploaded-document-id"]
}'
# { "id": 123, "status": "queued" }Why PDFParse
Preserve supplier and order relationships.
Extract repeated product rows accurately.
Map supplier documents into one schema.
Send structured data into procurement systems.
Edge cases
Multi-page orders
Partial deliveries
Variant descriptions
Missing SKUs
Freight charges
Tax breakdowns
Currencies
Scanned orders
Common questions.
Can PDFParse extract purchase-order line items?
Yes. Use a repeating purchase-order-items table.
Can I process orders from multiple suppliers?
Yes. Use a shared schema to normalize supplier layouts.
Can I define my own PO schema?
Yes. Build reusable fields and relationships for your workflow.
Does it support multi-page purchase orders?
Yes.
Can output be imported into an ERP?
PDFParse returns structured records your application can map into an ERP.
Is there a PDFParse API?
Yes. Use project-scoped API keys to create extraction jobs and retrieve structured records from your active project.
Can AI agents use this workflow?
Yes. Applications and AI agents can use the same project-scoped API endpoints after documents are uploaded and a schema is available.