Air waybills in. Validated, delivery‑ready records out.
AWBGuru reads Master and House Air Waybills — clean PDFs, skewed phone photos, handwriting — then proves every field against real air-freight logic. Clean documents deliver themselves. You see only the exceptions.
30 free scans to start · no card required · then pay per scan or pick a plan
From inbox to shipped record — one flow.
Air waybill OCR and data extraction, end to end: documents arrive, key fields are checked against real air-freight logic, and a structured record goes out — with only the exceptions stopping for a person.
Send documents the way you already work.
No portal to log into, no format to prepare. Forward an email, drop a combined PDF, snap a photo, or POST to the API — every path lands in the same validated pipeline.
Masters and houses.
One upload.
House bills that arrive with your masters are recognized as houses, and each one comes back as its own record, carrying its master's number. It links to that master automatically when the master is already captured, and any house that finishes first is one click away on the master's page.
Classified before it's read
Every document is sorted first — master, house, consolidation manifest, invoice, packing list — so a house bill isn't read as a master by default.
The fields houses actually carry
Twelve fields: house and master number, shipper, consignee, issuing forwarder, goods, pieces, weight, origin, destination, flight, and flight date — the set present on most real house bills.
Linked to its master
Each house keeps the master it travels under. Once it's linked to that master (automatically, or in one click if the master arrives later), forwarder, routing and booked-flight details the house doesn't print are filled from it. Same per-field confidence and exceptions-only review as your masters.
Run it as a team.
No shared passwords.
AWBGuru is multi-user from day one. Bring your whole cargo team into one workspace — each person with their own account, their own audit trail, and the right level of access.
One workspace per company
Every operator works the same pipeline and the same queue under a single company account — no shared passwords, no duplicate setups.
Invite by email in seconds
Send an invite; they set their own password and land straight in your workspace. Onboarding a new hire is seconds, not a support ticket.
Owner & member roles
Owners hold billing, members, and configuration; members process documents. Promote or right-size access in a click — the sensitive controls stay where they belong.
Full activity trail
Every upload, correction, approval, and export is attributed by user and timestamped — accountability built in, and it stays intact after someone leaves.
Priced to your volume. Not your headcount.
How many air waybills a month?
Swipe the full lineup.
Six ways to buy the same engine. Overage past your allowance always bills at that plan's own per-scan rate — never a penalty.
Enterprise
Custom volume, a negotiated per-scan rate, and on-prem or data-residency deployment for teams that can’t send documents to the cloud. Talk to us.
House waybills are extracted and count as a full scan; consolidation manifests, invoices & packing lists are auto-classified but not extracted and count as 0.1. Documents blocked by the page guard or still in flight are never charged. Your effective per-scan cost drops as volume grows.
The questions cargo teams ask first.
Does AWBGuru create or print air waybills?
No — AWBGuru captures air waybills that already exist. It reads the Master and House Air Waybills you already have (a PDF, a scan, or a phone photo), validates every field against air-freight rules, and returns structured data, plus an FWB/16 or FWB/17 message for each master. Creating, printing, or issuing new AWBs from scratch is a different kind of tool: AWB issuing software.
Do you read house air waybills (HAWBs) too?
Yes. Upload house bills the same way as masters, on their own or mixed into the same file. Each page is classified first, and a house comes back as a twelve-field record that keeps the master AWB number it travels under. If that master is already in your workspace the house is linked to it automatically; if the master arrives later, linking is one click. A page listing several houses is recognized as a consolidation manifest and set aside. House records export as JSON, XML, CSV or Excel; the FWB is the master’s message, and a house linked to its master can be downloaded as an FHL message. How house extraction works.
Do you transmit the FWB to the airline?
No. AWBGuru generates and returns the message — FWB/16 or FWB/17 — and you transmit it through your own rails. We hold no airline credentials, which keeps your carrier relationships and liability exactly where they are today.
Do we have to set up templates for each carrier’s layout?
No. There is no per-carrier template configuration. New layouts — including skewed phone photos and handwritten fields — are read by the same extraction stack and proven by the same validation rules.
What happens to our documents after processing?
Source files auto-delete within 24 hours. What persists is the structured audit receipt: extracted fields, validation results, timestamps, and delivery record.
What happens when a field fails validation?
The document routes to a review queue instead of delivering. It never blocks the stream — clean documents keep clearing while a person resolves the exception, and that correction helps tune the system.
How does pricing work?
You’re billed per scan — one scan is one extracted Master or House Air Waybill. Start with 30 free scans (no card), then either pay-as-you-go at $0.35/scan or pick a monthly plan from $50. Overage always bills at your plan’s own per-scan rate — never a penalty — and unused scans expire at the end of the cycle. No per-seat charge.
Which documents are supported today?
Master and House Air Waybills, with consolidation detection built in. Consolidation manifests, invoices and packing lists are classified but not extracted. The classify-and-split stage works on any document type, so coverage expands without rebuilding anything.
Freight-native answers, in depth.
Deeper reads on the checks, codes, and edge cases behind the pipeline — written for people who move air cargo.
Validation that catches what OCR confidence misses
Why a high OCR confidence score still lets valid-but-wrong fields through — and what freight-native checks catch that a character reader can't.
Reading the IATA check digit
The mod-7 arithmetic behind every AWB number, and how one digit proves the other ten weren't misread.
MAWB vs HAWB, explained
Master and house waybills, consolidations, and why detecting a consol first keeps a manifest from being force-fit into one commodity line.
Put your waybills on rails.
Send us a day of your real MAWBs — clean, skewed, handwritten, all of it — and watch what clears without you.