1. File formats
Upload a .pdf, or an image: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tiff, .bmp, .webp, .heic, or .gif. Printed receipts, thermal till receipts, scanned pages, and photos taken on a phone all work the same way, no preprocessing required. A single PDF can hold an entire period's pile, hundreds of pages across dozens of suppliers, and Pileform splits it back out by supplier for you.
2. Document types recognised
- Invoices, receipts, credit notes, and proforma invoices, plus a general "other" category for anything that doesn't fit those.
- Bank statements, handled by a separate pipeline that extracts transactions rather than line items.
Multi-page and multi-part documents, including continuation pages, are detected and merged automatically, so a receipt or invoice that spans several pages of a scan still comes back as one record. For invoices and receipts, Pileform extracts vendor details, line items, and VAT per line; for bank statements, it extracts each transaction, its date, counterparty, and amount, and classifies it by type.
3. Languages, currencies, and VAT regimes
A single pile can mix languages, currencies, and VAT regimes: up to around 11 languages are supported, and VAT is read across 55 jurisdictions, with Cyprus as the home regime. Whatever rate a document declares, that's the rate Pileform applies; it never normalises a foreign receipt to a single local rate. Country is inferred per document, from the VAT ID, address, currency, or language, whichever is available, so a pile spanning several countries doesn't need to be pre-sorted first.
4. Handwritten or hard-to-read items
Blurry, faded, or handwritten items still come through; they're extracted at lower confidence and flagged for a quick check before posting, so validating one takes seconds rather than typing the receipt from scratch. New to Pileform? Start with creating your account and your first upload, then see understanding the review screen for what a flag means.
Still stuck? Email contact@pileform.com and a person replies within one business day.