Read, don’t re-key
Read the customs PDF.
Don’t re-key a line.
Sustys runs OCR on your national customs declaration PDFs and lays every line on a forensic ledger — commodity code, net mass, origin, procedure — each with a Ready, Check or Fail verdict you approve before anything counts.
The re-keying tax
Every declaration is dozens of lines, typed by hand.
A year of imports is hundreds of customs PDFs. Re-keyed into a spreadsheet, every commodity code and net mass is a chance to misfile — and the EU default quietly fills each blank with the highest-carbon assumption.
4 fields
per line decide the bill — CN code, net mass, origin, procedure
100s
of lines across a single year of customs declarations
EU default
the dirtiest-production assumption — applied to every blank you can’t prove
How the read works
From customs PDF to forensic ledger.
Drop the PDF. Sustys reads the boxes that matter, reconciles them against CBAM scope, and gives every line a verdict — no re-keying, nothing hidden.
Source — the SAD as it arrived
ES-2026-IMP-3302.pdf import page 1 / 3
OCR · 6 fields read · 1 to check
Result — the forensic ledger
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INGEST
Drop the national customs declaration PDF — the SAD as it arrived, no template, no re-typing.
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EXTRACT
OCR lifts the boxes that matter: commodity code, net mass, origin and procedure, per line.
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RECONCILE
Each line is matched against CBAM scope — in or out, complete or short a field.
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VERDICT
Every line lands on the ledger with a verdict: Ready, Check or Fail. You approve before it counts.
The verdict, line by line
Ready. Check. Fail. Nothing in between.
No silent autofill, no confidence buried in a tooltip. Each line wears one of three verdicts — and each verdict is a distinct shape, not just a colour, so the meaning survives a greyscale print.
Ready
In scope, every field read with confidence and reconciled. Nothing for you to do.
Check 82%
A field is low-confidence or a value reads oddly. Sustys shows its read and the source box; you confirm or correct.
Fail
A line can’t proceed — a missing net mass, an unreadable code. It’s flagged and held, never quietly guessed.
You approve. Then it counts.
Human-approved, with the source one click away.
OCR proposes; you dispose. Hover any line to trace it back to the exact box on the original PDF. Nothing is final until you sign off — and every change is on the audit trail.
- Trace
Every value links back to the box it was read from. No number without a source.
- Confidence
Per-field OCR confidence is on the surface, not hidden — a low read becomes a Check, never a silent guess.
- Audit trail
Every approval and correction is recorded, immutable, and ready for the verifier.
What it reads
Every member state’s customs PDF. All six CBAM goods groups.
From box-grid SADs to condensed summary letters, Sustys reads the national formats your declarations actually arrive in — across every good the CBAM covers, from steel to electricity.
Box-grid SAD
Spain · Poland · Belgium
the classic 54-box single administrative document
Summary letter
Germany · France · Italy
the condensed national release notice
Goods in scope
- Iron & steel
- Aluminium
- Cement
- Fertilisers
- Hydrogen
- Electricity
CBAM-as-a-Service
See your first declaration read in minutes.
Drop a customs PDF and watch it land on the ledger — line by line, verdict by verdict.