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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by ofrzeta on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:19PM (#22480087)
Starting November 2020 in the EU machine-readable invoices will be mandatory in the public sector (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/55/oj).

As far as I understand there are at least two standards (I know of in Germany): XRechnung and ZUGFeRD/Factur-X (which is PDF A/3 with embedded XML).

http://fnfe-mpe.org/factur-x/factur-x_en/

Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by sabas_ge on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:17PM (#22486928)
Electronic invoicing in Italy is a thing since a couple of years, mandatory since Jan 1st 2019...
Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by f3r3nc on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:22AM (#22482590)
seems to be only for the electronic invoicing in public procurement
Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:31AM (#22491204)
No, it's now for everyone. It was like that for a while