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Open Text Invoice Capture Center Users Guide 5.2
Open Text Invoice Capture Center Users Guide 5.2
User's Guide
Invoice Capture Center User's Guide Rev.: V5.2 SR01 SP2 (2010-02-25)
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Contents
Introduction Validating Documents 1 2
Overview..............................................................................................................................2 Fields ...................................................................................................................................3 Starting Validation................................................................................................................3 Opening an Application ........................................................................................................4 Opening Documents .............................................................................................................4 Field Mode ...........................................................................................................................5 Table Mode ..........................................................................................................................6 Terminating Validation .........................................................................................................7 Rejecting a Document...........................................................................................................7 Correcting Documents Using the Mouse................................................................................8 Capturing Data Using Single Click Entry.................................................................8 Capturing Adjacent Words Using the Mouse ...........................................................9 Capturing a Text Block Using the Mouse...............................................................10 Capturing Arbitrary Words Using the Mouse .........................................................10 Capturing Data Using the Keyboard ....................................................................................12 Working with Table Fields..................................................................................................12 Adding Table Rows...............................................................................................13 Deleting Table Rows .............................................................................................13 Changing Layout of the Validation Window........................................................................13 Showing the Fields Above the Document...............................................................14 Arranging the Fields in Several Columns...............................................................14 Showing the Field Names Before or Above the Fields............................................14 Switching to Table Mode ......................................................................................14 Changing User Interface Language......................................................................................15 Controlling Document Presentation.....................................................................................15 Enlarging or Reducing the Document ....................................................................15 Rotating the Document..........................................................................................15 Adapting the Document to the Size of the Document View ....................................15 Keyboard Shortcuts.............................................................................................................16 Field Specifications.............................................................................................................20 Fields for Invoice Header Data ..............................................................................20 Fields for Invoice Item Data ..................................................................................21
Index
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Introduction
Invoice Capture Center is a product that extends Open Text Vendor Invoice Management by automatic extraction and manual validation of invoice data. Invoice Capture Center comprises a Recognition Cluster and several Validation Clients. The Recognition Cluster consists of a Server and optionally additional Recognition Nodes. The Recognition Cluster gets recognition jobs from SAP, fetches the corresponding invoice images from the archive, performs data extraction, and returns its results to SAP. Depending on the configuration of Vendor Invoice Management, all or selected invoices then become available for validation at one of the Validation Clients:
After installation, Invoice Capture Center will be customized for the needs of your company by creating and configuring applications. An application processes invoices of a specified recipient country with some fixed parameters, e.g. archive document types. Often several applications for different types of invoices will be needed. When the applications have been developed and tested, they will be transferred to the SAP Production System and become available for Validation Clients. When you start a Validation Client, you will have to log in to SAP first. When you have logged in successfully, the Validation Client will then check whether new applications or new versions of already existing applications are available and will download them, if necessary. You must then open a suitable application comprising archive document types you are authorized to work on. Your system administrator will tell you which applications you may use. If you open an application you are not authorized for, the Validation Client wont get any invoices for correction. If no invoices are available for you, the Validation Client will show Waiting for Data. If your authorization comprises more than one application, you could switch to another application in this case.
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Overview
With Invoice Capture Center, recognition results can be checked and corrected easily:
With this form you can check and capture image data conveniently and quickly. The form layout described below is the default layout. Arrangement and titles of the fields can be changed to suit individual requirements. In addition, the available fields depend on the country setting of the current application; in the above example, an application for US American invoices has been opened. This is why the following description is of a generalized nature.
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Fields
With the Validation Client of Invoice Capture Center, you check, correct, or enter field values. The Fields view shows a list of all fields that are available for the recipient country of the current application and possibly additional fields added during customizing. Some of the fields are optional. For an optional field, Invoice Capture Center doesnt check whether it contains a value; Thus it can remain empty, e.g. if the respective field is not present on the current invoice. Other fields are mandatory. A mandatory field will indicate an error (a yellow icon with an exclamation mark) as long as no value has been captured. For some fields, e.g. for date and amount fields, the format of the value is checked. Such a field will indicate an error, if it contains an invalid value. When you try to submit the invoice, as long as there is at least one erroneous field, you will be asked for confirmation.
Starting Validation
To start Validation, click Validation in the Invoice Capture Center program group of the start menu, or double-click the ICC Validation shortcut on the desktop. The SAP Login dialog is shown. If you already worked with Validation, the login data of the last session will be shown:
Select a system from the System drop-down list and enter user name and password. The Language field does not take effect with this release; you can leave this field empty. With a click on Check Login you can check whether the login data are valid for the specified SAP system. Note: If the System drop-down list is empty, the system has not been configured completely. Please inform your system administrator.
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As soon as login has completed successfully, the available applications will be imported from the SAP system. A progress bar will be shown until importing has completed:
Opening an Application
When you have just logged in, the Validation window will be empty. Before you can edit documents, you must open an application. Click the Invoice Capture Center button in the top left corner of the program window. Select Open Application to show a list of all available applications. Click the respective application.
Opening Documents
To open a document, click Open in the Validation group of the Application tab. If you have just completed validation of a document you can click on Submit+Open instead. This will submit the current document, and open the next document. While Validation tries do download a document from SAP, the program window will show Waiting for data. If no data are available, you may want to exit or to switch to another application. In this case click Stop on the program window. Afterwards click the Invoice Capture Center button in the top left corner of the program window, and then click Close Application. Afterwards you can terminate the program or open another application. As soon as a document could be fetched from SAP, it will be shown in field mode layout.
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Field Mode
When you open a document, the fields and the document image are shown in field mode layout:
The above example shows the default layout: The Fields view is shown on the left side arranging the fields in two columns. The Image view displaying the current page of the document is shown at the center. Thumbnails of all document pages are displayed at the right border.
The View group of the Application tab permits to modify the layout. E.g. you can arrange the fields in a different number of columns, or show the fields above the document image. All fields are always highlighted with a background color: Green: data are correct and do not require correction, or the field is optional. Red: data are incorrect and need to be corrected; an error message will appear at the bottom of the Fields view.
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Fields that need to be corrected show a yellow symbol with an exclamation mark. You must correct all these fields before you can submit the document. If you click Submit or Submit+Open while there are still erroneous fields showing the yellow symbol with an exclamation mark, the Validation Client will ask for confirmation. The Image view displays the current page of the invoice. Image details can be inspected exactly and easily using the zoom function. To correct the invoice line items, you should switch to Table mode using the F8 function key.
Table Mode
To correct the invoice line items, you should switch to Table mode using the F8 function key. In this mode, the table field with its rows and columns is shown above the document page:
You can capture data and navigate through the table cells in the same way as in Field mode. To insert a table row above or below a certain row, you can click on one of the green plus signs preceding the respective row. You can also select a row and use CTRL+N or CTRL+M to insert a row above or below the selected row, or use the buttons in the Invoice Items group of the Application tab.
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Terminating Validation
If you want to terminate working, use Submit when you have finished validating the current document. The document will be submitted without opening a new document. You can then terminate Validation by clicking Exit on the application menu. If you have to terminate immediately and cant completely validate the current document, click Cancel in the Validation group. The current document will then be closed. Changes you already made will be discarded, and the document will again be available for validation.
Rejecting a Document
If you detect that the current document cant be processed, e.g. because image quality is so bad that you cant decipher the field values, or because some invalid document that is not an invoice or credit memo was scanned erroneously, click Reject in the Validation group. The Enter Reject Reason dialog opens were you can enter a description of the problem. If you already have rejected documents, the descriptions you entered earlier will be available in a drop-down list:
When you confirm the dialog, the document will be submitted together with an error code and the description you entered so that the administrator can take the appropriate action.
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If the field already contains a value, the current value is also shown. If the location of the value is known, the area is highlighted in light-orange color:
As soon as the mouse hovers over text, the tool tip will show the recognition result that could now be captured. At the same time, the corresponding area on the document becomes highlighted in light-red color:
A single mouse click will now capture the selected text and switch to the next erroneous field, i.e. the next field showing a yellow warning icon with an exclamation mark. If the current field already contains the correct result, select another field by clicking on it in the Fields view. Take care, not to click onto the document in this case because that would either capture a value, or delete the field value. If the text shown in the tool tip is not correct, capture it nevertheless, then select the respective field, correct the value using the keyboard, and use Enter to switch to the next erroneous field. In special cases, you will need additional methods:
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If only a part of the value is shown in the tool tip, you can mark adjacent words and capture the complete string. To capture a block of text consisting of several lines, you can use Zone-and-Capture to mark and capture a text block. You can even mark and capture arbitrary words at different locations on the document using Multi-Selection.
To capture adjacent strings, position the mouse over the first string, and hold the left mouse button pressed while you move the mouse over the strings that should be captured. The tool tip will show all the strings you touched with the mouse. In our example, point to 999 and draw the mouse over Madison to Avenue holding the mouse button pressed; the tool tip then shows the complete street line:
Releasing the mouse button will now enter the value and switch to the next field. Tip: If you marked the wrong text by mistake, click ESC while you keep the mouse button pressed. This will remove the selection. When you now release the mouse button, the field value will not change and the field will stay selected.
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In this case you can draw a rectangle around the text that shall be captured. Position the mouse above and to the left of the text block and draw a rectangle while you keep the mouse button pressed. The text within the rectangle becomes marked and is shown in the tool tip:
Releasing the mouse button will now enter the value and switch to the next field. Tip: If you marked the wrong text by mistake, click ESC while you keep the mouse button pressed. This will remove the selection. When you now release the mouse button, the field value will not change and the field will stay selected.
In this case, use Multi-Selection: keep the SHIFT button pressed, point to the first string and click the mouse button. The string appears in the tool tip and the mouse cursor changes to a plus symbol:
Now keep the SHIFT button pressed, and click on all strings you want to add to the field value. In our example we would click on the words Care, Life, Insurance, New and York. The example would then look as follows:
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Releasing the mouse button will now enter the value and switch to the next field. Tip: If you marked the wrong text by mistake, click ESC while you keep the mouse button pressed. This will remove the selection. When you now release the mouse button, the field value will not change and the field will stay selected. Before you can again use this feature, you must release the SHIFT button temporarily.
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To insert a row above a selected table row, click the upper plus sign preceding the selected row, click Add row above in the Invoice Items group of the Application tab, or use CTRL+N.
To insert a row below a selected table row, click the lower plus sign preceding the selected row, click Add row below in the Invoice Items group of the Application tab, or use CTRL+M.
To delete all rows of a table, click the red cross preceding the header row of the table, or click Delete all rows in the Invoice Items group of the Application tab.
Before all rows of a table are deleted, a dialog will ask for confirmation.
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Keyboard Shortcuts
To make navigation fast and efficient, function keys and key combinations are available for many functions as described in the tables below. Global Key combination
CTRL + P CTRL + S
Description
Open document Submit document
Description
Next field Next erroneous field Previous field Previous erroneous field
within a table TAB RETURN SHIFT + TAB SHIFT + RETURN DELETE Next element in the table Next erroneous element in the table Previous element in the table Previous erroneous element in the table Delete selection
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Description
Insert a row above the current row Insert a row below the current row Add row at the end of the table Delete the current row Delete all rows
Image View These function keys do only work if the Image view has the keyboard focus. Click on the image, if necessary. Key combination
CTRL + PLUS SIGN (num. keypad) CTRL + MINUS SIGN (num. keypad) CTRL + 3 (num. keypad) CTRL + 9 (num. keypad) CTRL + 7 (num. keypad) CTRL + 1 (num. keypad)
Description
Zoom in Zoom out Fast scroll down Fast scroll up Go to top left corner Go to bottom right corner
Description
Switch to Vertical mode showing the fields to the left of the document image. Switch to Horizontal mode showing the fields above the document image. Switch to Table mode.
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Description
Copy. Cut. Paste. Delete. Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word. Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word. Select all. Close the active item. Opens the shortcut menu for the active window. Display the shortcut menu for the selected item. Display the letters of available commands in the ribbon. Move forward through tabs. Move backward through tabs. Move forward through options. Move backward through options. Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box. Display the bottom of the active window. Display the top of the active window.
Description
Opens the Invoice Capture Center menu. To open an application, then press the respective character. Ask system administrator which letters are assigned to the available applications. Closes the current application. Opens the Info dialog box showing version and copyright information. Opens the ICC Options dialog where you can specify the user interface language. Terminates the program.
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Description
Opens the next document. Submits the current document. Submits the current document and opens the next document. Cancels the current document. Adds a row above the current row in table mode. Deletes the current row in table mode. Adds a row below the current row in table mode. Adds a row to the end of the table in table mode. Deletes all rows in table mode. Adapts the document image so that the complete page is shown. Adapts the document image to the width of the Image view. Adapts the document image to the height of the Image view. Zoom in. Zoom out. Rotate image left. Rotate image right. Activates the Layout option. Use the UP or DOWN key to select the desired value and confirm with ENTER. Activates the Columns option. Use the UP or DOWN key to increase or decrease the number of columns and confirm with ENTER. Activates the Field names option. Use the UP or DOWN key to select the desired value and confirm with ENTER.
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Field Specifications
Fields for Invoice Header Data
The following table shows all invoice header fields supported by Invoice Capture Center. For some fields, it depends on the country setting of the application whether they will be shown. In addition, some optional fields are available that are not shown in default configuration; these optional fields can be added by customizing. Field Name
Vendor Number Vendor VAT Number Vendor Tax Number Remit to Requester Email Ship to Reference Number Document Date PO Number
Description
This field displays the supplier number. It is derived from downloaded vendor master data. European VAT number. This field is not available with country setting USA. National tax number. This field is not available with country setting USA. These fields are only available with country setting USA. Email address. These fields are only available with country setting USA. Invoice Number. This is a mandatory field. Invoice date. Purchase order number. The value is checked for standard SAP order numbers (42XXXXXXXX, 45XXXXXXXX, 48XXXXXXXX, 51XXXXXXXX, 54XXXXXXXX, 55XXXXXXXX). This is a mandatory field. It is used to check the different amount values and the tax rate against one another. The validity of the amount is checked against the sum of the other amount values. This is a mandatory field. This is a mandatory field. This field is only shown with country setting USA where it is a mandatory field. Value-added tax amount. The field is shown for all country settings except USA. This is a mandatory field. The field displays the currency in 3-letter ISO format. When typical currency symbols or names are captured, they will automatically be converted. E.g. if you enter $ or dollar, the field will show USD. Swiss payment reference number. Special format with check digit. Only shown with country setting Switzerland where it is a mandatory field. This field is used to indicate credit memos in contrast to invoices. For invoices, the field remains empty. For a credit note, enter the letter c .
Net Amount Gross Amount Tax Rate Total Tax Amount VAT Amount Currency
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Field Name
Supply Date Freight Amount Handling Charges Invoice items
Description
This is an optional field. It will be displayed only if configuration has been modified accordingly. Amount value. This is an optional field. It will be displayed only if configuration has been modified accordingly. Amount value. This is an optional field. It will be displayed only if configuration has been modified accordingly. To correct the line item data, you should switch to Table mode using F8.
Note: In the table shown above, country setting refers to the country setting of the current application, not to the language setting of Validation. Therefore, if for example the application is configured for processing of Swiss invoices, the field ISR Number will be displayed independently of the language setting of Validation.
Description
This column lists the item number of the invoice item. It is determined by automatic line item matching, if this is configured for the application. It should not be modified during validation. 10-digits PO number of the respective line item. Delivery note number. This column lists the item unit (for example, units, hours, etc). This column lists the number of units. It is mandatory. This column lists the per unit amount. It is mandatory. Tax amount. Tax rate. This column lists the total amount for the invoice item. It is checked against Quantity and Unit Price. This column lists the entire contents of the item line. Because the item description is often a long text, this column is shown as a separate second line.
PO Number Delivery Note Number Order Unit Quantity Unit Price Tax Amount Tax Rate Amount Item Description
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Rejecting a Document 7 Rotating the Document 15
Index
A
Adapting the Document to the Size of the Document View 15 Adding Table Rows 13 Arranging the Fields in Several Columns 14
S
Showing the Field Names Before or Above the Fields 14 Showing the Fields Above the Document 14 Starting Validation 3 Switching to Table Mode 14
T
Table Mode 6 Terminating Validation 7
C
Capturing a Text Block Using the Mouse 10 Capturing Adjacent Words Using the Mouse 9 Capturing Arbitrary Words Using the Mouse 10 Capturing Data Using Single Click Entry 8 Capturing Data Using the Keyboard 12 Changing Layout of the Validation Window 13 Changing User Interface Language 15 Controlling Document Presentation 15 Correcting Documents Using the Mouse 8
W
Working with Table Fields 12
D
Deleting Table Rows 13
E
Enlarging or Reducing the Document 15
F
Field Mode 5 Field Specifications 20 Fields 3 Fields for Invoice Header Data 20 Fields for Invoice Item Data 21
K
Keyboard Shortcuts 16
O
Opening an Application 4 Opening Documents 4 Overview 2
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