I finally figured out how to cut Anthropic API costs for invoice extraction without making the results worse
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I had an invoice extraction flow that looked great in demos and terrible in billing. It wasn’t failing. That was the problem. It was successfully sending every invoice PDF to Claude, pulling out totals, dates, vendor names, and line items, then returning neat JSON. Everyone saw the output and assum…
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- 2026-09-01 21:54 · DEV Community — AI
I finally figured out how to cut Anthropic API costs for invoice extraction without making the results worse