Move to OCR Helps AP at Netflix Reap Big Benefits

A cumbersome manual process prompted the AP department at Netflix, the world’s leading Internet television and movie network,to implement an optical character recognition (OCR) system as part of a strategy to automate accounts payable. This implementation helped AP to dramatically improve efficiency. “AP faced a number of challenges from having manual data entry,” says Rebecca Linton, Senior Manager at the Netflix Global Accounts Payable Service Center (Los Gatos, CA), which processes…