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Human validation tier

The human validation tier is an optional step where a reviewer checks low-confidence and edge-case fields after AI extraction — before the document enters your approval flow.

What it catches

  • Confident-but-wrong fields. The AI scores a field at high confidence, but the value is genuinely incorrect — a transposed digit in a bank account, the wrong currency code, or an amount read from the wrong column. These would pass silently without human review.
  • Edge cases in line capture. One wrong line can break order matching for the entire document. Human review makes line data reliable enough for automatic PO matching.
  • Non-standard layouts. Scanned PDFs, foreign-language inserts, and unusual invoice formats score lower confidence and benefit most from review.

Why it matters

Without validation, a high-confidence wrong field reaches approvers with no warning. With validation enabled, reviewers correct those fields first, so approvers can trust the pre-filled data and focus on approval decisions rather than data checks.

When it may not be needed

Validation adds a small processing delay and a per-document cost. It may not be cost-effective for clients with very low document volumes, highly standardised invoices from a small fixed supplier set, or clients who prefer their own bookkeeper to review every captured field.

Related: How Nordflow captures invoice data · Enable human validation for a client