Invoice Automation and Automated Recognition which means a computer recognising and automating entering the data on a PDF document (i.e. a purchase invoice or a purchase credit note). This avoids having to key in data and in more advanced systems means that a three-way match can be checked of the PO, goods received and amount being invoiced (or equally returned and credited for purchase returns). Advanced systems can also check for a project reference.
There is now a Sage partnership offering for the Sage 50 market called Autoentry:
https://www.sage.com/en-gb/products/sage-50cloud/features/autoentry/
This idea is to vote for Sage to introduce this to Sage 200 also.
This is partly because a business which upgrades from Sage 50 to Sage 200, but uses Autoentry could want to continue to use this.