How Oeko-Tex® saved 80% time on analysing Lab Reports
Automation of document analysis saves time, removes delays at peak load, and enables 10× more data capture.
"Acodis dramatically decreased our treatment time per report, whilst enabling much more comprehensive and reliable data capture."
Dr. Alfred J. Beerli
CEO
Time saved per lab report
Reduction in manual extraction effort
Documents processed
Across diverse sources and layouts
Time to production
From POC kickoff to production
At a glance
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Industry
Certification and Labelling
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Company
Oeko-Tex - Global Leaders in Textile Certification
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Use case
Automation of Laboratory Test Report
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Systems integrated
Downstream quality database
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TIME TO PRODUCTION
3 months from POC to full deployment
THE CHALLENGE
Thousands of reports - and always working under time pressure due to heavy manual work
Lab reports arrive from global testing partners in large batches, creating peak load at critical certification periods. With 17 different layouts and no automation, processing was slow, stressful, and entirely dependent on staff availability — limiting both throughput and data capture.
The bottlenecks:
- Thousands of reports in large batches
- Manual review bottlenecks
- Limited data capture
We progressively trained dedicated models with 20, 40, 60 documents. Started production use and later trained versatile models with 150+ documents. Documents are grouped by similarities and share versatile, highly accurate models.
Confidence scores route low confidence data points for cases for human review automatically. Through the visual interface, quality staff can quickly review and edit the extracted data alongside the source documents.
With the new speed and automated workflows, the data fields are captured automatically and consistently, enabling 10x data capture.
What Acodis replaced:
Manual copy-paste across 17 layouts
Staff bottlenecks at peak periods
Partial data capture under time pressure
Unstructured archives with no downstream use
Transcription errors in quality-critical data
Automation absorbed the peak workload and stress, so the team is no longer racing against the clock.
With clean, complete data flowing in continuously, analytics and trend detection become possible in ways they weren't before. Every lab report processed adds to a growing, structured dataset. Years of accumulated data are building into a proprietary asset that opens new possibilities.
3 months to production
80% less time per report
10x data capture
9000+ documents processed
"We process reports with 17 different layouts, which preciously had to be entered manually. With Acodis, we automatically imported all reports and exported all kinds of data to a database. Significant time savings, drastically reduced error risk, and a fully automated workflow."
What made this work
- Quick iterations on the data schema: Short feedback loops compressed months of specification work into weeks — refining fields and edge cases in practice, not on paper.
- Dedicated model building with Acodis support: Models trained on Oeko-Tex's actual 17 layouts — not generic tools requiring extensive workarounds.
- Starting small before scaling: A manually verified sample anchored quality standards before scaling to thousands of documents automatically.
- Intuitive validation interface: Confidence scores surface borderline cases only — keeping human oversight efficient without creating a new bottleneck.
How this is applicable to you
The same patterns apply wherever high volumes of similar documents are processed manually
You process 1,000+ documents of a similar type
Lab reports, CoAs, batch records, test certificates - anywhere volume creates bottlenecks.
You want to fuel a data-driven business
Turn your document archive into a proprietary database that compounds in value over time.
Quality matters and you need 99% precision
A validated, auditable pipeline with human oversight and full data lineage.
Ready to see what Acodis can do for your team?
Talk to our document automation experts about your batch records, SOPs, or QC documentation.