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Number of customer accounted for more than ten percentage of revenue.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Customer Concentration - Additional Information (Detail) - Customer	12 Months Ended
	Aug. 31, 2023	Aug. 31, 2022	Aug. 31, 2021
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Number of customer accounted for more than 10% of revenue	2	3	2
Number of customer accounted for more than 10% of accounts receivable	0	1
Sales Revenue, Net \| Customer Concentration Risk \| Customer One Concentration Risk
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	21.00%	16.00%	13.00%
Sales Revenue, Net \| Customer Concentration Risk \| Customer Two Concentration Risk
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	10.00%	12.00%	13.00%
Sales Revenue, Net \| Customer Concentration Risk \| Customer Three Concentration Risk
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage		11.00%
Accounts Receivable \| Customer Concentration Risk \| Customer One Concentration Risk
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage		12.00%