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Core feature

Photograph it instead of retyping it

The crew keeps writing on paper. The only thing that changes is that the sheet gets read in the office instead of typed up in the evening.

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Read by machine. Confirmed by a human.

In the product

What you see once a Zettel has been read

The photo on the left, the recognised fields on the right. What Levora read with confidence is in black; what is uncertain gets marked and waits for you.

Close-up of the Levora review screen: the handwritten Aufmaß slip on the left, the quantities read from it with confidence scores on the right, one flagged for review
  1. Recognised valueQuantity and unit, exactly as they stand on the sheet.
  2. Marked as uncertainWhere the handwriting is not unambiguous, you are asked instead of guessed at.
  3. Item from the LVThe value hangs on the item number from the bill of quantities.
  4. ApprovalOnly your confirmation makes the quantity billable.

How it works

Two readers that check each other

Levora does not read a Zettel with a single method. A calibrated image comparison first recognises the geometry of the form – where the zones are, which boxes are ticked, which lines are struck through. Only then does a second method read the actual handwriting in the fields.

That separation is why a struck-through item is still recognised as cancelled even when the figure underneath stayed perfectly legible. A single method misses that.

Levora – review view with recognised fields and uncertain values marked

Scale

What the retyping is really about

  • up to 40 hrs/month

    less manual work in the back office

    Guide value for a mid-sized firm, derived from the Levora workflow – depends on document volume.
  • ~ 14 hrs

    of that, ticket and measurement capture alone

    The share of ticket capture in that saving.
  • 0

    quantities posted without human approval

    Every figure read is put up for approval. Levora posts nothing by itself.

Honest limits

What we do not promise

  • No hundred per cent accuracy. A figure scrawled in a hurry is not always readable – when it is not, you are asked, not guessed at
  • No quantity reaches an invoice unapproved. The machine reads, a person confirms
  • You do not have to change your sheet. Calibration is done on the form you use today
  • The crew changes nothing. What is new happens in the office

Common questions

Questions about Zettel recognition

How well does it read handwriting?
It depends on the sheet. Clean figures on a known form are read reliably; numbers scrawled on a creased sheet are not always. That is why the hit rate is not the promise – the promise is that every value is put in front of you and you can see which one was uncertain. You get meaningful figures for your own business in the demo, on your own sheets.
Do we have to change our Zettel template?
No. Levora is calibrated to the template you use today. If the template changes, it is set up once again.
What happens to the sheets after they are read?
The photograph stays attached to the job. In an audit you see the billed quantity next to the sheet it came from – with the signature.
Where are the images processed?
In Germany, under a data processing agreement. A Zettel carries names and addresses, so the processing routes are chosen such that no content is used to train third-party models.
What about time sheets?
Same mechanism. Instead of quantities and items it reads hours, day and employee – presented in exactly the same way.
Our crew fills the sheets in Polish or Turkish. Does that work?
Figures and units are language-independent, and those are what actually gets read. Free text in another language is read too, but the match to an item is made against the German bill of quantities – because that is where the item on the invoice comes from.

Try it on your own sheets

The most telling test is your own Zettel. Bring two or three, difficult ones welcome.

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