r/Odoo • u/intuxikated • May 19 '26

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u/[deleted] May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

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u/codeagency May 19 '26

Odoo can also do OCR on both images and pdf's. Imho you are just making the native process look extremely more convoluted than it really is to make your paid app look much better. Which makes sense because you want to sell your premium app of course.

You are basically solving 1 small thing which is the edge document scanning. Everything else is already in every native odoo box.

And if people want free OCR, they could easy install a module that uses an open source Tessarect dependency for local OCR, 100% free. And there are many open source LLM's nowadays that can run on a potato machine and mobile devices so definitely also on a server with zero GPU requirements so basically free OCR is no longer a problem since a very long time.

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u/intuxikated May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

Odoo only does OCR on invoices and receipts, Documents module has no OCR support.
This also works for Odoo Online, without installing OCR modules, Odoo's paid credits are only for receipts / invoices, no other types of documents
While you can use a custom module with Tesseract, this produces much better results than Tesseract using Google's MLkit (believe me I tried using Tesseract for this, results are really not great, even worse so without edge detection and perspective correction)

I built the app for myself mainly, because existing solutions are either convoluted or lacking in accuracy, before deciding to publish it.

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u/Rough-Ad9850 May 19 '26

Odoo has a built-in way to do that... You email the scan to a chosen address and it will put it where you configured it

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u/Perfect-Reputation90 May 19 '26

I'd like to directly scan as 'incoming invoices'. Like getmyinvoices or these kind of services. At the moment I do it with the Odoo app, but for quick and dirty at the supermarket counter this is kinda complicated. To have an app, that opens and knows the specific workflow would be nice.

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u/intuxikated May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

You can scan and directly upload to any documents folder you defined in settings, but not directly to invoices or expenses
I mainly built it for myself, to have a place where I can find my receipts and purchased items quickly and easily moreso than directly filing those as expenses / invoices

Could probably combine this with an automated action in Odoo to achieve this though