Cambrion at Munich Airport
Initial situation.
A leading ground handling company at Munich Airport handles large volumes of X-ray documents from freight forwarders such as Schenker and DSV. These documents arrive in inconsistent formats with unclear layouts, requiring time-consuming manual cross-checks.
The company previously relied on a typical intelligent document processing (IDP) system, which was outdated, template- and OCR-based, rigid and inflexible, with limited adaptability to the constantly changing document formats. This created friction in daily operations and prevented real efficiency gains.
The document processing challenge.
Manual processing of each X-ray document took on average 1.5 minutes and was error-prone. With several hundred documents per day – adding up to around 50,000 documents per year – the process created bottlenecks in both warehouse and back-office operations.
The main issues were:
High effort for re-checks and corrections.
Frequent errors slowing down throughput.
Overtime, especially at peak times (e.g. Friday evenings).
Limited flexibility of the old OCR/IPD solution.
The transformation goal.
The company set clear objectives:
Accelerate document handling without adding complexity for staff.
Reduce errors and eliminate repetitive manual checks.
Achieve measurable efficiency and cost savings.
Build a foundation for broader automation beyond X-ray.
The Cambrion solution.
Automated X-ray document processing.
With Cambrion, the company deployed tailored pipelines that process X-ray documents automatically in just 15 seconds per file – no templates, training data, or coding required.
Cambrion enables:
Consistent extraction from diverse X-ray formats.
Automated processing integrated directly into existing workflows.
Significant reduction of manual checks and error rates.
Flexible pipelines that can easily be extended to new document types.
Quantifiable results.
From 1.5 minutes to 15 seconds per document → >80% time saved, scaled across ~50,000 documents per year.
Noticeably fewer errors and corrections in warehouse & back office.
Reduction of overtime: ~5 hours per week saved (including more than 2 hours on Friday afternoons alone) → direct cost savings.
Additional relief through automated e-mail workflows.
How it works.
1
Configure
Select the data fields you need to extract.
2
Test
Test for consistent results across other documents.
3
Connect
Integrate into your existing workflow via API.
Why Cambrion.
More control than standard LLM or intelligent document processing (IDP) tools: A structured data schema enables repeatable, verifiable results.
One platform, many use cases: Test agentic pipelines on your most complex document use cases and add pipelines as your document processing needs evolve.
Model-agnostic by design: Use or switch between LLMs without being tied to a single provider’s tooling.
Built for internal AI competence: Create a reusable foundation for future document automation instead of adding yet another point solution.
Automate freight document processing.
Cambrion eliminates the bottlenecks in document-based workflows.