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New comment by raphig in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

raphig — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:41:16 +0000

You can use AI to convert your PDF invoice into XRechnung to comply with EN 16931 should that occur, e.g., https://www.invoice-converter.com/en

New comment by raphig in "Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%"

raphig — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:22:51 +0000

There was never really a strong European identity, but Trump/Vance/Musk single-handedly managed to create a pan-European, anti-American movement with commercial implications, e.g., buyeuropean.io

New comment by raphig in "Ask HN: How are you preparing for PEPPOL?"

raphig — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:54:52 +0000

And for XRechnung, we luckily have AI-converters that take your existing PDF invoice and reliably convert it into XML without a need to change existing tools or workflows: https://www.invoice-converter.com/en

New comment by raphig in "Show HN: I made it easy to create invoices"

raphig — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:22:40 +0000

Luckily, there are AI-converters for that: https://www.invoice-converter.com/en

Show HN: Convert PDF invoices to e-invoice XML using AI in seconds

raphig — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:52:51 +0000

I got approached by the finance department of a large company. There is a new regulation in Europe that mandates a defined XML-format for e-invoices for some transactions and - I kid you not - their SAP implementation wasn't able to address this. They also said that all solutions on the market were either cumbersome (think: manually typing in all fields) or required deep system integration.

I thought it cannot be that hard to use AI for this and built a little invoice converter that takes your PDF invoice in whatever form it is, and outputs exactly the XML structure that is required in the regulation. Given that AI is not perfect (but surprisingly close to it!), you can manually edit all fields.

Target users are companies where their current solution does not yet support the standard and that do not want to change their existing invoicing flow (incl. foreign businesses).