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title: "Extend Blog"
description: "Benchmarks, launch posts, and case studies from teams shipping document pipelines with Extend — how Brex reached 99% accuracy and Flatiron Health scaled to 100M+ pages."
canonical: https://www.extend.ai/resources
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# Extend Blog

## Customers

- [How Checkr cut manual review time by 60% to near 100% across millions of documents](https://www.extend.ai/resources/checkr-case-study.md) — Checkr uses Extend to process millions of documents with 95–100% accuracy and reduce human document review time by 60–100%. (2026-07-28)
- [How Opendoor processes millions of pages to accelerate homeownership](https://www.extend.ai/resources/opendoor-case-study.md) — How Opendoor uses Extend to process millions of pages across settlement extraction and HUD QC, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars and accelerating homeownership. (2026-07-08)
- [How Flatiron Health scaled document extraction to 100M+ pages with Extend](https://www.extend.ai/resources/flatiron-case-study.md) — How Flatiron Health replicated 6 months of in-house NGS extraction work in 2 weeks with Extend, scaling biomarker data across 5 million people with cancer. (2026-05-20)
- [How Nuvocargo hit 99% Document Accuracy for US-Mexico Cross-Border Freight](https://www.extend.ai/resources/nuvocargo-case-study.md) — How Nuvocargo used Extend to hit 97-99% accuracy across document intake, classification, extraction, and shipment attribution, with near zero human involvement. (2026-03-16)
- [How Mercury shipped low-latency document processing for 300K+ users](https://www.extend.ai/resources/mercury-case-study.md) — How Mercury uses Extend to power real-time document validation in onboarding, handling dozens of languages and formats with sub-7 second latency. (2026-03-02)
- [SamaCare Customer Spotlight](https://www.extend.ai/resources/samacare-spotlight.md) — SamaCare uses Extend to handle the complexity of healthcare documents. (2026-02-10)
- [How Column Tax Benchmarked Every OCR Option and Chose Extend](https://www.extend.ai/resources/how-column-tax-benchmarked-every-ocr-option-and-chose-extend.md) — See how Column Tax rebuilt their entire document-processing pipeline and selected Extend as their long-term foundation (2026-01-15)
- [How Brex Reached 99% Accuracy Across Millions of Financial Documents](https://www.extend.ai/resources/how-brex-reached-99-accuracy-across-millions-of-financial-documents.md) — Brex uses Extend to power 99%-accurate document workflows across 30,000+ customers. (2025-09-18)
- [HomeLight Hits 99% Accuracy and Eliminates Manual Review with Extend](https://www.extend.ai/resources/homelight-hits-99-accuracy-and-eliminates-manual-review-with-extend.md) — HomeLight used Extend to automate contract review with 98%+ accuracy and zero human input. (2025-05-19)
- [Nudge Security Cuts Development Time from 6 Months to Weeks](https://www.extend.ai/resources/nudge-security-cuts-development-time-from-6-months-to-weeks.md) — Nudge Security used Extend to turn six months of OCR work into a few weeks of seamless data extraction. (2025-05-07)
- [Vendr Unlocks Data from Millions of Documents to Launch New Products](https://www.extend.ai/resources/vendr-unlocks-data-from-millions-of-documents-to-launch-new-products.md) — How Vendr used Extend to unlock pricing data from millions of SaaS contracts and order forms, powering new procurement products and benchmarks. (2024-12-16)
- [AbstractOps Increases NPS & NRR with Extend](https://www.extend.ai/resources/abstractops-increases-nps-nrr-with-extend.md) — How AbstractOps automated state compliance and legal paperwork with Extend, lifting NPS and net revenue retention while cutting manual document work. (2024-09-10)

## Product

- [Introducing Edit with Improved PDF Form Detection and Filling](https://www.extend.ai/resources/introducing-edit-upgrade.md) — Edit helps AI teams automate PDF form filling with less manual field mapping, improved detection on scans, and more consistent field labels. (2026-09-10)
- [Introducing Light Parse: accurate parsing at a fraction of the cost](https://www.extend.ai/resources/introducing-light-parse.md) — Light Parse delivers high-accuracy document parsing for straightforward documents at 50%+ lower cost than other providers. (2026-08-27)
- [Don’t pay the ZDR tax](https://www.extend.ai/resources/dont-pay-the-zdr-tax.md) — Zero data retention should be table stakes, not a premium add-on. Extend lets every customer enable ZDR without annual contracts or additional fees. (2026-08-12)
- [Introducing: new agent-first onboarding for Extend](https://www.extend.ai/resources/introducing-agent-first-onboarding-for-extend.md) — Onboarding rebuilt for agent-first development: API key at signup, a ready-to-use agent skill, and templates matched to your use case. (2026-08-10)
- [Introducing Extend Templates: ready-made document processing recipes for agents](https://www.extend.ai/resources/introducing-extend-templates-ready-made-document-processing-recipes-for-agents.md) — Extend Templates is a library of ready-made recipes for agents to build production-ready document pipelines. Choose a recipe, adapt it, and keep control of every artifact it creates. (2026-08-05)
- [Workflows upgrade: build document workflows in natural language, manage as code](https://www.extend.ai/resources/workflows-upgrade-build-in-natural-language-manage-as-code.md) — Build complete document workflows with Composer, validate them with code or semantic rules, and manage deployment through GitHub. (2026-07-27)
- [Introducing Extend UI: open source UI kit for modern document apps](https://www.extend.ai/resources/extend-ui-kit.md) — Open source UI kit for modern document apps. (2026-06-09)
- [Introducing: Parse 2.0 and RealDoc-Bench](https://www.extend.ai/resources/parse-2-and-realdocbench-launch.md) — Today we're launching Parse 2.0, our SOTA layout-first document parsing API for agents, alongside RealDoc-Bench, an applied benchmark measuring parsing performance on the real-world documents agents actually encounter in production. (2026-05-26)
- [Introducing Review Agent: Re-gaining Confidence in Confidence Scores](https://www.extend.ai/resources/introducing-review-agent-re-gaining-confidence-in-confidence-scores.md) — Agentic confidence scoring to detect and score issues in extraction (2026-01-13)
- [Introducing Memory: Teaching Document Processing Systems to Learn from Visual Patterns](https://www.extend.ai/resources/introducing-memory-teaching-document-processing-systems-to-learn-from-visual-patterns.md) — A generic, flexible, and scalable primitive for example-based improvement (2026-01-07)
- [Introducing Edit: A Single API to Fill Any Form Programmatically ](https://www.extend.ai/resources/introducing-edit-a-single-api-to-fill-any-form-programmatically.md) — Introducing Edit: A Single API to Fill Any Form Programmatically  (2025-12-17)
- [Q4 2025 Product Releases](https://www.extend.ai/resources/q4-2025-product-releases.md) — Q4 was the busiest quarter in Extend’s history as we continue to build out the most powerful document processing APIs for developers to build incredible products.  (2025-12-16)
- [Introducing Composer: The First AI Agent for Document Processing](https://www.extend.ai/resources/product-launch-composer.md) — Composer automatically optimizes document schemas, achieving 99% accuracy in minutes instead of weeks. (2025-09-30)
- [Product Spotlight: Workflows + Human-in-the-Loop](https://www.extend.ai/resources/product-spotlight-workflows-human-in-the-loop.md) — Extend Workflows turn PDFs into validated data with automation, human review, and built-in accuracy control. (2025-05-22)
- [Product Spotlight: Splitter Processor](https://www.extend.ai/resources/product-spotlight-splitter-processor.md) — Extend’s Splitter turns messy multi-page PDFs into clean, structured documents for accurate automation. (2025-05-12)
- [Product Spotlight: Citations + Reasoning](https://www.extend.ai/resources/product-spotlight-citations-reasoning.md) — Extend’s Citations and Reasoning make document extractions transparent and verifiable. (2025-05-08)
- [Product Spotlight: Config + Evals](https://www.extend.ai/resources/product-spotlight-config-evals.md) — Extend makes it easy to configure, test, and optimize document processors, helping teams reach production-grade accuracy fast. (2025-05-06)

## Engineering

- [LongArray-Extract: A Benchmark for Complete Structured Extraction at Scale](https://www.extend.ai/resources/long-array-extraction-benchmark.md) — LongArray-Extract tests whether extraction systems can complete structured array outputs across hundreds or thousands of rows. (2026-06-02)
- [Why Layout Matters](https://www.extend.ai/resources/why-layout-matters.md) — How Extend rebuilt its layout model for Parse 2.0, why layout detection drives parsing accuracy, and how stronger document structure improves deterministic pipelines, model routing, cost, and latency. (2026-06-01)
- [RealDoc-Bench: A Real-World Benchmark for Document Agents](https://www.extend.ai/resources/realdocbench.md) — RealDoc-Bench evaluates whether parsers preserve the structure agents need across real-world document workflows. (2026-05-26)
- [The Developer Is Always Right: Lessons From Redesigning Extend's API](https://www.extend.ai/resources/the-developer-is-always-right.md) — How we redesigned Extend's API from polymorphic endpoints and inconsistent response shapes to typed, predictable interfaces developers can integrate with in minutes. (2026-03-31)
- [PoliTax Split: Extend's Document Splitting Benchmark](https://www.extend.ai/resources/document-splitting-benchmark.md) — PoliTax Split evaluates document splitting on long public-sector tax packets with subtle document boundaries. (2026-03-30)
- [How We Built Composer, Our Schema Optimization Agent](https://www.extend.ai/resources/how-we-built-composer.md) — Why we abandoned workflows for agents, how we learned to starve our context window, and why our optimization agent accidentally became a data quality tool.
 (2026-02-24)

## Blog Post

- [Best Document Parsing APIs in 2026](https://www.extend.ai/resources/best-document-parsing-apis-2026.md) — A production-focused comparison of document parsing APIs for accurate RAG, agents, and downstream extraction. (2026-09-09)
- [Best OCR APIs for Complex Documents in 2026](https://www.extend.ai/resources/best-ocr-apis-for-complex-documents.md) — A production-focused comparison of OCR APIs for handwriting, degraded scans, complex tables, and multilingual documents. (2026-09-09)
- [Best PDF Extraction APIs for Production in 2026](https://www.extend.ai/resources/best-pdf-extraction-apis-for-production.md) — A production-focused comparison of schema-based PDF extraction APIs for tables, forms, long documents, and review workflows. (2026-09-09)
- [7 Best Document Extraction APIs Ranked by Accuracy (August 2026)](https://www.extend.ai/resources/document-extraction-api-accuracy-rankings.md) — See how 7 document extraction APIs rank by accuracy in August 2026. Compare Extend, Reducto, LlamaParse, Pulse, AWS Textract, Google Document AI, and Unstructured. (2026-08-25)
- [Edit API Workflow Patterns: Parse, Extract, Map, Fill (August 2026)](https://www.extend.ai/resources/edit-api-workflow-patterns-parse-extract-map-fill.md) — Learn parse, extract, map, fill workflow patterns for document automation APIs. Complete guide to orchestrating Edit API workflows in August 2026. (2026-08-25)
- [6 Best PDF Parsing APIs for AI Agents (August 2026)](https://www.extend.ai/resources/pdf-parsing-api-comparison-ai-agents.md) — 6 PDF parsing APIs for AI agents ranked in August 2026 on accuracy, pipeline coverage, and enterprise readiness. (2026-08-25)
- [Choosing a Document Parser for AI Agents](https://www.extend.ai/resources/choosing-document-parser-ai-agents.md) — A practical framework for selecting and testing document parsers for AI-agent workflows, from RAG ingestion to validated structured extraction. (2026-07-31)
- [How GPT-5 Performs on Real World Documents](https://www.extend.ai/resources/how-gpt-5-performs-on-real-world-documents.md) — We’re often asked: When should we use GPT-5 directly for parsing documents versus building on a more specialized pipeline? (2025-11-11)
- [Extend Raises $17 Million to Build the Document Processing Cloud](https://www.extend.ai/resources/series-a.md) — Extend Raises $17 Million to Build the Document Processing Cloud | Extend (2025-06-17)
- [It's time to unlock unstructured data](https://www.extend.ai/resources/revolutionize-document-processing-how-extend-transforms-your-work.md) — Extend turns messy documents into accurate, automated data for companies like Brex, Checkr, and Vendr. (2024-09-06)