The Manual Data Entry Problem

Your team wastes $28,500 per person per year on manual data entry

Every hour spent re-keying numbers off a PDF is an hour not spent growing the business. Across a team, that lost time is a five-figure cost per head — every single year.

Stop Wasting Time →Source: 2025 Parseur survey

The Pain

What manual entry really costs you

62 minutes per shipment

Typing from PDFs, packing lists, and invoices eats over an hour for every single shipment. Multiply that across a week and it's most of someone's job, with nothing to show for it.

One wrong number, one delayed clearance

A single fat-fingered digit on a customs declaration holds the whole container at the port. Now you're firefighting instead of moving freight.

Your best people, buried in busywork

The operators who should be winning clients and fixing exceptions are instead re-keying numbers off a screen all day.

The Cost

62 min

wasted per shipment on typing

$28,500

lost per person, per year

100%

of it is preventable

The Solution

Lumen Activate reads any document in 17 seconds

Drop in a commercial invoice, packing list, or bill of lading. Activate reads every field straight off the document. Nobody builds a template, nobody re-keys a number, and the fat-fingered typos that used to hold a container at customs stop happening. Your team checks the result and moves on. Pair it with Lumen Sourcing and Lumen 3PL to keep every shipment clean end to end.

Before

62 minutes

of manual entry, every shipment

Typing from PDFs by hand
Costly typos and rejections
Best people stuck on busywork

After

17 seconds

of AI extraction, every shipment

AI reads any document
Clean data, no typos
Team focused on growth

Give your team their hours back

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