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Reading documents is the part Odoo already does.
Odoo 19 can read an uploaded PDF and create a record from it. The work worth paying for is what happens when it reads one wrong.
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Where the approval threshold sits
Every extracted record carries a confidence score. One setting decides which of them a person sees before they hit the ledger.
A person checks it first
Below the line — about 29% of documents here. Review effort you are choosing to spend.
Posts automatically
At or above the line — about 71% here. Speed you are choosing to take.
An illustrative distribution of extracted records by confidence score, from 50 to 100. The counts run 2, 4, 9, 14, 22, 28 and 21 across seven bands. An approval threshold splits it: the four lowest-confidence bands, roughly 29% of documents, go to a person for review first; the three highest, roughly 71%, post automatically.
Moving the line is a business decision. Raise it and fewer wrong postings reach the ledger, at the cost of more review. Lower it and the reverse. Setting it well needs your real distribution, which is why we measure before we tune.
Illustrative shape, not a claim about accuracy on your documents — that depends on your document mix, supplier consistency and scan quality, and is measured rather than promised.
Document capture is the use case most teams start with, and it is the one where Odoo's native capability goes furthest. We configure it rather than rebuild it.
What we add is the part that decides whether it can be trusted at volume: extraction accuracy measured against human judgement, an approval threshold above which a human sees the record first, and a monthly score so accuracy drift surfaces before an auditor finds it.
Solution Odoo OCR & AI document capture — the full solutionQuestions we get asked
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Can Odoo read a PDF invoice by itself?
Yes. Odoo 19 Enterprise can read an uploaded document and create a record from it — this is the native capability that goes furthest of any AI feature Odoo ships. Configuring it well is worth paying for; rebuilding it is not.
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What accuracy should we expect from document capture?
There is no honest single number, because it depends on your document mix, supplier consistency and scan quality. What can be promised is measurement: extraction accuracy scored against human judgement on your own documents, monthly, so you know the figure rather than assume it.
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How do we stop a misread reaching the ledger?
An approval threshold. Above a confidence level the record posts; below it a human sees it first. Setting that threshold is a business decision about the cost of a wrong posting versus the cost of a review, and it is the single most important setting in a document AI rollout.
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