Next-generation OCR "route-D AI Data Entry," provided by route-D Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Mitsuaki Matsumoto; hereinafter "route-D"), has been introduced by Kao Corporation (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President and Executive Officer: Yoshihiro Hasebe; hereinafter "Kao"). Background of Introduction Kao manages receipts and dispatches by recording pallet movement information used for product storage and transportation on slips, and manually entering this data into their management system upon shipment/receipt from factories to logistics centers. While the accuracy of pallet management is maintained at a high level, the issuance of tens of thousands of slips per month presented the following challenges: Manual entry of slip information into the system resulted in approximately 200 hours of work per month at one factory. Despite high management accuracy, input errors still occurred, leading to additional work such as discrepancy checks during inventory counts. Introduction Overview Kao compared and evaluated multiple OCR solutions to reduce the workload associated with pallet slip management. In addition to high reading accuracy, they also emphasized ease of confirmation work in practical operations. As a result, they decided to introduce "route-D AI Data Entry" after evaluating the following two points: A service screen that allows for batch confirmation of multiple reading results Since slip images and reading results can be confirmed in a table format, detailed data from multiple documents can be checked collectively. This was judged to significantly reduce the workload for confirmation tasks. A "Confidence Highlight" function that visualizes items with potential misreads Items with potential misreads among the reading results can be highlighted. Since slips include handwritten characters, the ability to efficiently identify items for confirmation, rather than assuming 100% reading accuracy, was highl