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PDF files dropped into a shared mailbox, scans from the warehouse copier and photographs taken on a phone, including crooked and badly lit ones.
Electronic invoicing is gradually putting invoices between French companies into a structured shape, and whatever arrives as Factur-X no longer has to be retyped. Plenty of paper and PDF remains, however: invoices from German, Italian or Asian suppliers, delivery notes travelling with pallets, transport documents, contracts and acceptance reports. These are recognised automatically, their fields extracted, then prepared in your system for human approval.
Automation pays through volume. Below a few dozen documents a month, typing them stays cheaper than maintaining a system, and we will tell you so plainly.
PDF files dropped into a shared mailbox, scans from the warehouse copier and photographs taken on a phone, including crooked and badly lit ones.
The system tells an invoice from a credit note, a delivery note, a transport document or a contract, and sends each one down the right path.
Number, dates, amounts, currency, supplier VAT number, lines with quantities. Learning happens on the real layouts your own suppliers use.
Supplier codes are mapped to yours and quantities compared with the order, so goods receipts are created without anyone hunting through screens.
The original and the extracted values side by side, uncertain fields marked in colour, and a keyboard shortcut to approve without reaching for the mouse.
Once approved, the document goes into Sage, Cegid, EBP or Odoo, and the original moves to the archive with a link from the entry.
Contracts and acceptance reports carry names and signatures: processing in a European region, a processing agreement, and a description ready for your record.
A pilot covers one document type and the tuning to your own layouts. Its timetable is given after we have looked at a representative sample rather than at two examples.
How many documents, of which types, and how many hours a month their entry takes the warehouse and the accounts team today.
Real documents in all their variety, including the worst ones: creased, stamped across the total, written in three languages.
Learning inside a service hosted in a European region, then accuracy measured on a test set kept deliberately aside.
Connection to the approval workflow, training for the team on Teams and close attention to results during the first weeks.
Time does not go into reading, it goes into matching. Reading from a delivery note that the supplier shipped forty units of reference ART-2231/B is no longer difficult. The real work is teaching the system that this is your article 10-557, packed in fours. That table of correspondences is built during the pilot, and it decides whether a document is approved in seconds or in minutes.
For structured invoices received from French suppliers, automatic reading loses its purpose: the data arrives ready for your platform. What remains is invoices from abroad, warehouse paperwork, transport documents, expense claims and contracts. In trading and manufacturing that is often a larger pile than domestic invoices ever were.
Current models cope well with German, English, Italian and Spanish, as well as with invoices written in English by Asian suppliers. We measure accuracy separately for each language and for each major supplier, so everyone knows exactly where to read carefully and where trust is reasonable.
Contracts and acceptance reports contain names, job titles and signatures. Processing takes place in a service hosted in a European region, under a processing agreement and on terms that exclude training on your documents. We write the description of the processing so your DPO can add it to the record without coming back to us.
There is no universal threshold. We count the hours the warehouse and the accounts team spend on entry today, then set that against the cost of building and running the system, service consumption included. With a handful of documents a month the answer is almost always no; with a steady heavy flow it often becomes yes.
Describe the documents you receive and how many arrive each month. We will judge whether automation pays, and say so if it does not.
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