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Search Every Invoice, Statement and Email Attachment: OCR and AI Search for Accounting

Copy documents in from Google Drive, Gmail, SharePoint, OneDrive and Outlook, OCR them, and let an AI agent find any invoice, check number or VIN by meaning or exact text.

Jose R. Gonzalez, CPA

Jose R. Gonzalez, CPA

Updated · 2 min read

Short answer

ERP Sync collects accounting documents from Google Drive, Gmail, SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, QuickBooks attachments and direct uploads, OCRs scanned pages, and makes the whole corpus searchable by meaning or by exact text and pattern — so an agent can find the invoice behind a transaction, every occurrence of a check number, or read a statement page by page.

Search Every Invoice, Statement and Email Attachment: OCR and AI Search for Accounting

Getting documents in

  • Search and copy from Google Drive and Gmail, and from SharePoint, OneDrive and Outlook — several accounts per user.
  • Pull existing QuickBooks attachments in so they can be read.
  • Upload directly, or have a script upload up to 20 files at a time.
  • Organize by client group, company or department; tag and move files without losing OCR.

Reading and searching

  • PDFs with a text layer are indexed immediately; scanned pages go through OCR.
  • Search by meaning (“the equipment lease amendment from last spring”) or by exact text and pattern (every VIN, every check number).
  • Agents read PDFs as page images, including handwriting, and load CSV or Excel files into queryable datasets.
  • Agents can draft (never send) replies in Gmail and Outlook, create Google Docs and Sheets, and comment on Drive PDFs.

What to ask your AI agent

With ERP Sync connected to Claude, ChatGPT, or another MCP-capable agent, requests like these work as written:

Find the invoice PDF that supports the $8,432.17 bill from Pacific Supply.
List every file that mentions check number 20417.
Copy all September statements from the AP inbox into the Opco folder.

The ERP Sync tools behind it

These are the MCP tools an agent calls. Each one is switched on or off per user, and read-only versus read-write is set per feature.

ToolWhat it does
erp_file_search / erp_file_grepSemantic search, and exact text or pattern search.
erp_file_read / erp_file_extract_pagesReads documents and extracts page ranges.
google_to_erp_copy / m365_to_erp_copyCopies files and emails in from Google and Microsoft 365.
erp_file_to_datasetLoads CSV/Excel into a queryable dataset.

Limits and requirements

  • Semantic search is a premium feature.
  • Copies are limited to 250 MB per file; email drafts are drafts only — ERP Sync never sends mail.

Frequently asked questions

Does ERP Sync send email on my behalf?

No. It can create drafts and replies in Gmail or Outlook for you to review and send.

See it on your own books

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