TitleRead
Title OCR for exporters, dealers and title processors

Vehicle titles, read into data in about a minute.

Upload a title, or a 40-page scanner batch. TitleRead splits it into documents, groups them by VIN, and returns every field with a confidence score and its exact place on the page. The ownership chain too, worked out from the paper.

All 50 states, Ontario and Quebec Bills of sale matched by VIN No setup, pay per vehicle
How it works

Three steps, no integration needed to start.

Upload

Drop a PDF or photo in the dashboard, or POST it to the API. One title or a whole batch of titles, bills of sale, lien releases and cover sheets, in any order.

Read

Pages are sorted into documents and grouped by VIN. Each document is read with the rules for its state, and the title is checked against its bill of sale.

Review or integrate

Open the review screen, click any value to see it on the page, correct it in one click. Or take the JSON by API or signed webhook straight into your system.

What you get

Built for the paperwork as it actually arrives.

Every field, with its place on the page

Title number, type and brands, VIN, year, make, model, owner and address, every lienholder and release, every transfer and dealer reassignment with its odometer reading. Each value carries a confidence score and its box on the page image.

Whole packets, sorted

A scanner batch comes back split into documents and grouped by vehicle. Gate passes, cover sheets and blank backs are marked as noise instead of being guessed at.

Rules for every state

Title-number formats and brand conventions for all 50 states plus Ontario and Quebec, written from real titles: Pennsylvania's trailing letters, North Carolina's stock-number trap, California's salvage prefix.

Who really owns it

The chain of owners is read in order: the owner of record, each assignment, each dealer reassignment, across both sides of the title. The last U.S. owner and the seller behind a signatory or a lease fall out of it.

Title checked against bill of sale

Bills of sale from Copart, IAAI and private sales are matched to their titles by VIN. Where the two disagree on year, odometer or buyer, you see it flagged, not silently merged.

A real API

Two calls: send a file, get the result. Signed webhooks, page images for your own review screens, a corrections endpoint, and credits that never expire.

What comes back

Clean JSON, typed and normalized.

Every document found, its raw read with coordinates, and a normalized form you can store as-is. Vehicles are grouped, conflicts listed, the ownership chain resolved.

Read the API docs

{
  "documents": [
    { "pages": [1, 2], "type": "title", "state": "Florida",
      "subtype": "salvage",
      "normalized": {
        "titleNumber": "0128841276",
        "vin": "1HGCM82633A004352",
        "owner": { "name": "STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INS", … },
        "odometer": { "value": "152310", "brand": "actual" },
        "lienholders": [], "transfers": [ … ], "reassignments": [ … ]
      } },
    { "pages": [3], "type": "bill_of_sale", "subtype": "copart", … }
  ],
  "groups": [ { "vin": "1HGCM82633A004352", "documents": [0, 1],
                "conflicts": [], "ownership": { "lastUsOwner": "COPART INC" } } ],
  "usage": { "totalTokens": 23400, "durationMs": 38000 }
}
Who it is for

Anyone who keys titles by hand today.

Vehicle exporters

Titles and bills of sale from auctions, read and matched before the car reaches the warehouse. The last U.S. owner comes out ready for the export filing.

Dealers and wholesalers

Trade-ins and auction buys keyed into your DMS from the scan, with the lien and odometer brand you need to catch before you resell.

Title and registration services

Batches of client paperwork sorted and read in minutes, with a review screen your clerks can check against the page.

Lenders and insurers

Salvage and repossession paperwork read at volume, with the lienholder, release and brand history on every unit.

Pricing

Per vehicle, not per page.

One credit reads a vehicle's title and everything scanned with it. Prepaid packs from $0.40 a vehicle, no minimums, credits never expire. Volume pricing from $0.30.

See pricing

Try it on your own titles
Sign up with a work email and read 10 vehicles free. No card.
Your documents stay yours
Processed in the United States, deleted after your retention window (down to 1 day), never used to train anything.
Noise pages are free
Only vehicles with a title or bill of sale are charged. Cover sheets, gate passes and blank backs cost nothing.
Questions

The ones we get asked.

How accurate is it?

Printed fields on a clean scan read at 97 to 99% confidence. Handwritten names and addresses in the assignment sections are the hard part, and that is where the confidence score and the page highlight earn their keep: a low score tells your reviewer where to look. Corrections you make are kept with the document and feed back into accuracy.

What about handwritten assignments and reassignment sheets?

They are read, in order, into the ownership chain. Names are returned as written on the paper, with the page number, so a reviewer can confirm them in seconds.

Can I send a whole batch in one file?

Yes. A multi-page PDF with several titles, bills of sale and other pages is split into documents and grouped by VIN. You are charged per vehicle, not per page.

Which document types are recognised?

Titles from all 50 states, Ontario and Quebec, including salvage, junk, rebuilt and BOS-only cases. Bills of sale from Copart, IAAI and private sales. Lien releases, repossession certificates, dealer reassignment sheets, affidavits and invoices are read and attached to their vehicle.

Where is my data processed and how long is it kept?

In the United States. Files and results are deleted after your retention window, which you set between 1 and 365 days. Nothing you upload is used to train models.

Do I need to integrate anything?

No. The dashboard works on its own: upload, review, download JSON. When you are ready, the API is two calls and a webhook.

Read your first title in the next two minutes.

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