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Business Engineering Corporation, Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Masakazu Haneda, hereinafter referred to as "B-EN-G") announces that it has officially launched the AI-OCR function for its cloud-based international accounting and ERP service "GLASIAOUS" today.
This function reads text information from supporting documents such as invoices and purchase orders, automatically creates data, and transcribes it directly into GLASIAOUS. In field trials, it has been confirmed that this function can reduce bookkeeping work time by up to 60-70%, contributing to the improvement of operational efficiency and digitalization in the accounting departments of companies that operate globally.

■Background and Issues
As companies become increasingly globalized, accounting departments are faced with an increasing number of documentary documents in a variety of formats, creating issues with the workload and potential for errors caused by manual entry. Companies with overseas bases in particular are required to process accounting documents quickly and accurately while complying with the tax systems and accounting standards of each country. While speed and accuracy are required, traditional accounting work has the following issues:

1. Huge amount of work time required to manually input supporting documents
2. Poor data quality due to transcription between systems and input errors
3. Poor searchability due to dual management of paper and systems
4. Dealing with diverse languages and formats when processing supporting documents at overseas bases

■ Solution: Features of AI-OCR function
To solve these issues, B-EN-G has implemented an AI-OCR function in GLASIAOUS. This function has the following features:

1. Highly accurate character recognition
   It reads the date, amount, summary, etc. from invoices and purchase orders with high accuracy. It also supports handwritten invoices and a wide range of non-standard supporting documents.
2. Automatic Data Transcription
   Based on the information read, GLASIAOUS references past data and automatically generates journal data by linking it to business partner information.
3. Improved accuracy through learning functions
   The more the AI learns from the user's correction data and uses it, the more accurate the recognition becomes. In the future, it will be possible to learn from even a single piece of data, which is expected to further improve work efficiency.
4. Global Response
   We can handle evidence in various languages and smoothly process evidence in various formats from overseas bases.
5. Human check function
   The content read by the AI is saved only after the user has confirmed and approved it, ensuring the accuracy of the data.

■Effects of the function
The provision of AI-OCR functionality is expected to have the following effects:

1. Significant reduction in work time
   Evaluation programs have demonstrated that bookkeeping time can be reduced by up to 60-70%, allowing accountants to focus on higher value-added tasks.
2. Improved data quality
   High accuracy in reading amounts and summaries reduces manual input errors and improves data quality.
3. Digitization of data and improved searchability
   By digitizing paper-based supporting documents, searchability is dramatically improved, making audit responses and analysis work smoother.
4. Improving operational efficiency in the accounting department
   By freeing the accounting department from routine data entry tasks, productivity will improve.

■ Pricing structure and campaigns
Customers who have already implemented GLASIAOUS or who implement it during the campaign period until March 2026 can use up to 50 to 100 pages per month free of charge. Paid rates are 5 to 7.5 yen per page. Implementation of GLASIAOUS starts with no initial cost, and ongoing feature updates are included in the package fee.

■ Future developments
Even after its release, B-EN-G will continue to work on improving its AI-OCR functions. Going forward, we plan to expand its functionality to accommodate a wider range of business scenarios, including expanding support for receipts and invoices, adding automatic splitting of supporting documents containing multiple transactions, and multilingual translation functions.
Through GLASIAOUS, B-EN-G will support the digitalization of accounting departments of globally operating companies and contribute to the sustainable growth of companies.

■About GLASIAOUS
GLASIAOUS is a cloud-based international accounting and ERP service that meets the requirements of each country. It has been implemented by 1,700 companies in 36 countries and regions, and supports multiple languages, currencies, and standards, and is equipped with advanced AI to improve business efficiency. In addition, we work with partner companies around the world to provide reliable support through implementation and maintenance support tailored to each local area, while maintaining control from our Japanese headquarters.
For more information about GLASIAOUS, please visit https://www.glasiaous.com​

■About Business Engineering Co., Ltd.
Business Engineering Corporation supports the digital transformation of customers, particularly in the manufacturing industry, through comprehensive IT services ranging from planning and implementation to operations. B-EN-G also develops and implements its proprietary package software "mcframe," and has a strong track record in ERP, supply chain management (SCM), and IoT-based solutions.With overseas subsidiaries in Shanghai (China), Bangkok (Thailand), Singapore, Jakarta (Indonesia), and Chicago (USA), B-EN-G provides localized support to Japanese companies expanding abroad, addressing their management challenges both in Japan and overseas.
For more information, please visit:https://www.b-en-g.co.jp/​

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