Utility Bill - Document Skill

Extract data from utility bills — provider, account holder, billing period, charges, usage, and totals — for electricity, gas, water, telephone, and cable.

The Utility Bill skill extracts data from utility bills. Utility bills are detailed invoices that are charged and paid regularly (in a payment cycle) for services like electricity, gas, water, telephone, and cable television.

The Utility Bill skill is a production skill. It has been fully trained on a large document set and provides high accuracy of data identification and extraction. The skill is ready to be used in production and does not require further training on your specific documents. Accuracy and straight-through processing (STP) rates can be further optimized in production through continuous learning from human-in-the-loop feedback.

Countries and Languages

Countries	Languages
USA	English
Canada	English
	French

Extracted Fields

Asterisk (*) indicates a required field or field group. Values cannot be empty.

Billing Period

Field	Description
Start Date*	The billing period start date.
End Date*	The billing period end date.

Bill Information

Field	Description
Bill Date	The date on which the bill was issued.
Bill Number	The bill number. This field is also sometimes named Invoice Number.

Issuer

Information about the company providing the services.

Field	Description
Name*	Information about the company providing the services.
Address	Information about the company providing the services.

Customer

Information about the customer or the invoice recipient. The Service Address field is the address where the service was performed.

Field	Description
Account Number	Information about the customer or the invoice recipient.
Name	Information about the customer or the invoice recipient.
Customer Address	Information about the customer or the invoice recipient.
Service Address	The address where the service was performed.

Remit To

Information about the business unit or payment recipient.

Field	Description
Name	Information about the business unit or payment recipient.
Address	Information about the business unit or payment recipient.

Financial Information

Field	Description
Amount Due*	The total amount due for the billing period.
Current Charges	Charges for the current period.
Currency*	The currency of the amount due.

Line Items (Repeating Group)

Field	Description
Billing Number	The customer account number (for example, phone number) that is used to identify the account.
Description	A description of the line item.
Quantity	The number of units purchased.
Unit Price	The price of one item.
UoM	The unit of measurement for the line items.
Amount	The payment amount.

Additional Fields

Field	Description
Previous Balance	The balance for the previous billing period.
Last Payment	The payment made for the previous billing period. The field value may be negative.
Balance Forward	The balance brought forward from the previous billing period. The field value may be negative or zero.
Due Date	The bill due date. After this date, the total amount due may change due to fines charged on unpaid amounts for the billing period.
Amount after Due Date	The amount charged if the payment is made after the due date.
Late Charge	Additional charges (flat or percentage) levied in addition to the amount due if the payment is made after the due date.
Penalties	Charges levied on unpaid amounts for the billing period.
Adjustments	Payment adjustments. If several adjustment groups have been detected in the document, they are displayed as multiple lines of a repeating group.

Key Fields

• Issuer/Name
• Customer/Name
• Bill Date
• Due Date
• Amount Due

Validation Rules

Rule	Description
Check Bill Date	Verifies that the Due Date is later than the date on which the bill was issued (Bill Date).
Separate currency from amount in money fields	Splits the amount and the currency in a field containing an amount of money, and copies the currency into the Currency field if it is empty.

Parameters

Rule	Description
Fields neural net mode	Determines how ABBYY Vantage’s neural network engine extracts key-value fields from the document.