New UK Companies House API tool cleans addresses, flags directors and extracts balance sheet data

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A developer has released a service that works with UK Companies House data to address common frustrations such as rate-limit errors and inconsistent records. The tool normalises raw addresses into standard formatting and attaches verified GPS coordinates. It also sorts board officers into active and resigned categories for know-your-business checks. Filing PDFs can be scanned to pull balance sheet figures into structured JSON, and a proxy allows official PDFs to be displayed in web portals. A live sandbox is available without an API key, and an open-source Laravel wrapper has been published on Packagist.

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