Extract Invoice Fields From Vendor Pdfs Into Structured Records

---
name: "Extract invoice fields from vendor PDFs into structured records"
slug: "extract-invoice-fields-from-vendor-pdfs-into-structured-records"
description: "Uses invoice2data to turn invoice PDFs into structured JSON, CSV, or XML using supplier-specific templates. This is for repeatable invoice field extraction and renaming workflows, not for full accounting system automation or generic OCR catalog listings."
github_stars: 2137
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/invoice-x/invoice2data"
author: "invoice-x"
publisher_type: "open_source_project"
category: "Data Extraction & Transformation"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "invoice-x/invoice2data"
  github_stars: 2137
---

# Extract invoice fields from vendor PDFs into structured records

Uses invoice2data to turn invoice PDFs into structured JSON, CSV, or XML using supplier-specific templates. This is for repeatable invoice field extraction and renaming workflows, not for full accounting system automation or generic OCR catalog listings.

## Prerequisites

pdftotext or pdfminer or pdfplumber or OCRmyPDF or Tesseract or Google Cloud Vision

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [![Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/invoice2data.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/invoice2data)
- [![Support Python versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/invoice2data.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/invoice2data)
- A command line tool and Python library that automates the extraction of key information from invoices to support your accounting

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Basic usage. Process PDF files and write result to CSV.
- Please see the [Command-line Reference] for details.
- invoice2data invoice.pdf

- Source: https://github.com/invoice-x/invoice2data
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/invoice-x/invoice2data/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://invoice2data.readthedocs.io/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/extract-invoice-fields-from-vendor-pdfs-into-structured-records/)