Extract text from invoices, receipts, handwritten notes, and scanned documents with AI-powered OCR
Every day, your team wastes hours manually retyping data from documents. Here's what that looks like:
Your accountant spends half their morning manually typing invoice data into Odoo. One typo means starting over.
Scanned receipts and handwritten vendor forms sit in folders because nobody wants to transcribe them.
Reading tiny text, switching between screens, manual typing = mistakes. Every error costs time and money to fix.
You have boxes of old invoices and contracts, but they're just images. Finding anything requires digging through folders manually.
Step 1: Open scanned invoice PDF
Step 2: Read vendor name, squint at tiny text
Step 3: Type into Odoo (hoping no typos)
Step 4: Read invoice number, date, amount...
Step 5: Type each field manually
Step 6: Find mistake, fix it
Step 7: Repeat for line items...
15-20 minutes per document
Step 1: Upload document to Odoo
Step 2: Ask AI to extract text
Step 3: Review extracted data
Step 4: Done!
30 seconds per document
This isn't just basic OCR. It's an AI-powered vision tool that understands your documents:
Reads invoices, receipts, bills, scanned documents, handwritten notes, product labels, screenshots—anything with text. Uses Mistral AI's vision models to extract text like a human would read it.
Works with any LLM assistant in your Odoo system. Once installed, all your AI assistants can read documents—no extra configuration needed.
Minimal dependencies, maximum power. No vector stores, no heavy infrastructure—just pure OCR capability ready to use.
Works beyond Odoo with MCP Server integration.
Install our llm_mcp_server module and use this OCR tool from external AI clients like Cursor, Claude Desktop, and any MCP-compatible application. Parse PDFs and images in your Odoo database from anywhere—extract text from invoices, receipts, and documents without opening Odoo.
Let's say your team processes 30 documents per day (invoices, receipts, forms, etc.):
| Manual Entry | 15 min/doc × 30 docs | 7.5 hours/day |
| With OCR Tool | 30 sec/doc × 30 docs | 15 minutes/day |
| Time Saved Daily | 7.25 hours | |
That's 36+ hours saved per week
Almost a full-time employee's worth of work—freed up to focus on high-value tasks instead of data entry.
Extract vendor names, dates, amounts, line items—everything you need from invoices and receipts.
Turn scanned PDFs and images into searchable, editable text. Perfect for digitizing paper archives.
Extract text from handwritten notes, forms, and signatures. No more squinting at messy handwriting.
Process documents with multiple pages automatically. Upload once, extract all text.
No knowledge base, no vector stores, no heavy infrastructure. Just pure OCR power.
Works with any AI assistant in your system. Install once, use everywhere.
Before: Accountant spends 2 hours entering 30 invoices manually.
After: AI extracts all data in 15 minutes. Accountant reviews and approves.
Before: Boxes of old contracts sit in storage, unsearchable.
After: Scan and extract text. Now you can search your entire archive instantly.
Before: Employees photograph receipts. Finance team squints and types.
After: AI reads receipts instantly. Expenses recorded in seconds.
Before: Customer fills paper form. Staff rekeys every field into Odoo.
After: Scan form, AI extracts data. Staff reviews and saves.
Before: Inventory team manually enters product codes and descriptions.
After: Photograph label, AI reads everything. Product info auto-populated.
Before: Screenshots with error messages require manual transcription.
After: AI reads screenshot text instantly. Copy-paste ready.
Install this module in your Odoo instance
Add your Mistral API key and sync models
Any LLM assistant can now read documents
Upload documents and get instant text extraction
From setup to document extraction — here's how simple it is
Add your Mistral API key and sync models. The provider setup is straightforward—just configure once and you're ready to use OCR across your entire Odoo system.
After syncing, Mistral's vision models appear automatically. These specialized OCR models (pixtral-12b or mistral-ocr-latest) are optimized for reading invoices, receipts, handwritten notes, and scanned documents with exceptional accuracy.
Watch the magic happen: complex invoices, blurry scans, handwritten forms—the OCR engine reads them all and extracts clean, structured text. Even difficult-to-read documents are processed with near-perfect accuracy.
This isn't a separate system. It's built into your Odoo workflow:
Expert Odoo developers with deep LLM integration experience
State-of-the-art vision models (mistral-ocr-latest) for accurate text extraction
LGPL-3 license. View source on GitHub, contribute improvements
github.com/apexive/odoo-llm
Stop manually typing data from documents. Let AI do the heavy lifting.
Setup takes 5 minutes. See results immediately.
Mistral OCR Tool for Odoo 18.0
Developed by Apexive Solutions LLC
github.com/apexive/odoo-llm
License: LGPL-3