Craftex Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Shunpei Yamanaka) will begin offering "DataSyncer® AI-OCR to kintone," a new addition to its data integration service "DataSyncer® for kintone," which is compatible with kintone, a service developed by Cybozu, Inc., starting July 15, 2026. This service is a cloud-based AI-OCR service that reads PDF documents such as order forms, invoices, and delivery slips according to the field configuration of kintone apps and automatically enters the data into fields as structured data usable in kintone. It eliminates the need for template definitions and mapping settings for each document, and can import documents with different layouts into a single kintone app. Background: The Last Mile from Document PDFs to Structured Data While AI-OCR technology has made it possible to read characters from document PDFs, the "last mile" of converting the read data into kintone records presented two challenges: 1) how to manage templates for each document, and 2) how to input the read data into kintone fields. Template Management Becomes an Operational Burden: It was necessary to define templates for each document layout specifying "which item goes into which field." These templates had to be added each time a new business partner was added and recreated whenever their format changed. This template management cost continued to be an operational burden. Disjointed Input into kintone: Traditional OCR required the read results to be exported to a file, such as a CSV, and then imported into kintone. The path to kintone was not a single, continuous one: "OCR → CSV Conversion → Registration in kintone." Even though reading was possible, many sites continued manual data entry, foregoing automation due to the template management costs and the complexity of importing into kintone. How to cross the "last mile" after reading without manual effort? This was the final hurdle remaining for "documents x kintone." What is "DataSyncer®