Account Invoice Import

This module has been started by lazy accounting users who hate enter they vendor bills manually in Odoo. Almost all companies have several vendor bills to enter regularly in the system from the same vendors: phone bill, electricity bill, Internet access, train tickets, etc. Most of these invoices are available as PDF. If we are able to automatically extract from the PDF the required information to enter the invoice as vendor bill in Odoo, then this module will create it automatically. To know the full story behind the development of this module, read this blog post.

In order to reliably extract the required information from the invoice, two international standards exists to describe an Invoice in XML:

• CII (Cross-Industry Invoice) developped by UN/CEFACT (United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business),
• UBL (Universal Business Language) which is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 19845) developped by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards).

The Factur-X invoice standard embeds a CII XML file inside the PDF invoice: this is the concept of hybrid invoice.

This module has native support for UBL XML, CII XML and Factur-X. You can install additional modules (for example account_invoice_import_simple_pdf) to support other invoice formats.

Here is how the module works:

• the user starts a wizard and uploads the PDF or XML invoice,
• if it is an XML file, Odoo will parse it to create the invoice
• if it is a PDF file with an embedded XML file in Factur-X/CII format, Odoo will extract the embedded XML file and parse it to create the invoice,
• if there is already a draft supplier invoice for this supplier with the same invoice number, Odoo will display a warning,
• otherwise, Odoo will create a new draft vendor bill and attach the PDF or XML invoice file to it.

This module also works with vendor refunds.

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