💡 Why Use AI VAT Invoice (China) Information Recognition?

This template utilizes Baidu Smart Cloud's financial OCR to automatically extract key information from invoices and supports invoice verification. It helps enterprises and individuals reduce manual entry, improve financial data management efficiency, optimize workflows, reduce human errors, and increase data accuracy.

👉 How the Template Works

• Invoice Upload Form: Quick form entry for uploading invoices.
• Automatic Invoice Recognition and Processing: Uses Baidu Smart Cloud's financial OCR to scan invoice images, extract key content into forms, and supports invoice verification.
• Invoice Data: Stores invoice images and key recognition results such as invoice number, tax amount, total amount with tax, invoice type, verification results, and other information.

🎯 Usage Steps

1. Configure and Enable Invoice Recognition Automation:

   1. Register and verify on Baidu Smart Cloud Platform.
   2. Go to Application List, create an application, select VAT Invoice Recognition and VAT Invoice Verification, and obtain your API Key and Secret Key.

   

   

   3. Enter Bika Automation Invoice Automatic Recognition and Processing, fill in your API Key and Secret Key in the Invoice Recognition and Verification Formapp, and save the configuration.

   

   

   If you need invoice verification, enable the invoice verification button in the Invoice Recognition and Verification Formapp.

   

   4. Enable AI Invoice Recognition Database automation.

   

2. Upload Invoice for Recognition:

   Enter the Invoice Upload Form form to upload invoice images and submit. After a few seconds, you can see the AI-recognized data in the Invoice Data table.

   

   

⭐ Use Cases

• Automated Invoice Processing: Improve financial work efficiency through automated recognition and recording of invoices.
• Invoice Verification: One-click verification after invoice recognition, eliminating manual checking.
• Financial Data Management: Reduce manual errors and improve financial data accuracy.
• Expense Tracking: Easily extract and organize invoice expense information.

👥 Target Users

• Finance Teams: Automatically extract invoice data, reduce manual workload.
• Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): Optimize invoice management and financial tracking.
• Accounting Professionals: Improve efficiency in batch invoice management.
• Procurement Departments: Simplify purchase order and supplier invoice processing.

🔧 FAQ

1. What types of invoices can be recognized?

   This template supports recognition of Chinese VAT invoices, including general VAT invoices, special VAT invoices, and electronic VAT invoices (new nationwide unified electronic invoices, special/general). It includes basic invoice information, seller and buyer information, goods information, and tax information, with recognition accuracy over 99.9% for the five key elements. It also supports recognition of 21 key fields for VAT roll invoices, including invoice type, code, number, machine-printed number, machine number, payee, seller name, seller tax ID, issue date, buyer name, buyer tax ID, items, unit price, quantity, amount, tax amount, total amount (in figures), total amount (in words), verification code, province, and city, with recognition accuracy up to 95% for the four key elements.

2. What image formats are supported? Can PDFs be recognized?

   Currently, the template supports the following image formats: PNG (.png), JPEG (.jpeg / .jpg), and also supports direct recognition of PDF (.pdf) files. For best recognition results, we recommend uploading clear, uncompressed files. Note: Only one invoice can be recognized and verified at a time!

3. Are there limits on invoice recognition or verification? How can I check my available resources?

   For personal authentication, you get 1000 free VAT invoice recognitions per month and 20 free verifications. For enterprise authentication, you get 2000 free recognitions per month and 50 free verifications. Note that free verification resources do not reset monthly.

   You can check your resource usage in the Console and purchase resources according to your needs.

4. How to automatically extract invoice information and update to the table?

   You can refer to the VAT Invoice Recognition Parameter Guide and VAT Invoice Verification Parameter Guide to view return result parameters and configure the required information in your table. If you need to get other information from the invoice and automatically update it to the table, you can follow the example below.

   🔖 Modification Example: Adding "Buyer" Field Recognition

   Let's say we need to recognize the Buyer information from the invoice and record it in the data table. We can follow these steps:

   1. Add Field
   • Enter the Invoice Data table and add a new Buyer field to store buyer information.

   

   2. Configure Automation
   • Open the Invoice Automatic Recognition and Processing automation flow and enter the Update Record configuration page.

   

   • Add the Buyer field mapping configuration and switch to Variable Component.

   

   • Enter / to bring up the variable selector, select the PurchaserName parameter from the Invoice Recognition and Verification Formapp, and save the configuration.

   

   3. Upload an invoice to trigger automation and verify the recognition results.

   

   🎉 Congratulations, your invoice recognition template now supports extracting "Buyer" information!