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Using Snowflake NLP instead of Smart Invoice capture or QF

Quick Fields Smart Invoice Capture Integrations
Updated September 15
asked on July 10

Has anyone tried using something like Boomi to connect Laserfiche and Snowflake or sent requests direct to Snowflake from Workflow via API to use Snowflake NLP invoice processing instead of using Quick Fields sessions or Laserfiche hybrid cloud smart capture? 

The Laserfiche website is unclear about whether Smart Capture is available to locally hosted Laserfiche installs. 

If you did use Snowflake for extracting document data was it worth the extra effort? Or would it have been more economical to use Smart Capture?

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replied on July 10

Yes, this type of integration is definitely feasible, though I haven't seen a publicly documented example yet. Boomi has a native Snowflake connector that allows you to read from and write to Snowflake using secure authentication, and Laserfiche has a connector available within Boomi that enables direct integration between the two systems. This opens up a streamlined path where Laserfiche sends metadata and document information through the Boomi platform, which then formats and routes it to Snowflake for processing.

At Accelerated Information Systems (AIS), we specialize in these types of integrations; we provide both Boomi licensing and the professional services required to design and implement a seamless connection between Laserfiche and Snowflake. If you're looking to explore or implement this, we’d be happy to discuss your environment and goals in more detail.

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replied on July 11

Good pitch! :) 

I'm a platinum certified Laserfiche consultant and Empower Run Smarter award winner. (2023 best team University of San Francisco) I did a presentation at that year's conference on how to leverage API integrations for higher education.

Didn't save me from a mass layoff though, so I'm currently working on contract helping a client better leverage the automation and integration features of Laserfiche. I'm in the research stage comparing different ways to help them automate tedious data entry tasks. 

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replied on July 17

To the part of your question about whether Smart Invoice Capture is available to self-hosted systems - No, it is not, and it will not be. However, the newly released Smart Fields capabilities (which encompass invoices along with other forms of AI-assisted automated data extraction) will be coming to self-hosted subscription systems as a hybrid module in the Laserfiche 12 Fall 2025 release later this year.

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replied on July 18

Smart Fields is an LLM rather than NLP like Smart Capture is correct? 

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replied on September 5 • Show version history

Follow up to that, @████████, though I may have an answer after I meet with LFC on Monday...what will be the options for automating the Smart Fields logic for self-hosted? I've been testing it in Cloud and it seems that assigning the template from within Web Access kicks it off, which is good, but it doesn't seem to run when a document is uploaded via Forms.

Additionally, the Smart Invoice Profiles in Cloud appear to have some training logic in that I can point it at a table of vendors so that it's better about matching what it reads on an invoice to a recognized vendor's name. Is any logic like that coming to self-hosted?

And finally, while Dynamic Fields will hopefully get the job done, they are woefully behind the times compared to Forms functionality. For example, being able to autocomplete on any part of the item rather than typing that only matches the beginning of the string (and restarting if you pause in your typing). BTW, this is for trying to tweak the captured value to match looked up vendors.

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replied on September 5

I can't really weigh in on the LLM vs NLP aspect of things.

To your question, Pieter, check if you are inadvertently running into the 'auto' vs 'manual' licensing limitation. Some systems are only licensed for manual extraction of smart fields (explicitly clicked through the web client), but not automatic (by the Laserfiche repository whenever any content hits it). This has led to a lot of confusion about how the feature works, and will actually be removed from Laserfiche Cloud (and not be present in the Self-Hosted implementation at all) in the next month or so. For now you can double check your account plan page to see if you have 'Manual' or 'Manual/Auto'. 

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replied on September 15

Justin just to clarify, are you stating that all systems will be enabled for auto-extraction?

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replied on September 15

Yes at least from a licensing perspective. This is a change currently scheduled to come out in the 2025.10 release in a few weeks. The auto vs manual 'automated extraction' concept has just been too confusing, so we're going to try getting rid of it. We're aiming to have a way for an organization to control whether they want it enabled at an organizational level though. 

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