What's New: Enhancements in E-Documents (2025 release wave 1)
Business Central E-Documents enhancements in 2025 release wave 1: deleting incorrect e-documents, two-step processing with preview of incoming invoices, automatic PDF extraction and attachment, and embedding a PDF in XML export. Azure Document Intelligence for PDF OCR is in preview.
- Introduction and E-Documents Journey Overview
- New Features in 2025 Wave 1 Overview
- Azure Document Intelligence and PDF Processing
- Two-Step Processing Demo Introduction
- Demo: Deleting E-Documents and Two-Step Processing
- Demo: Document Deletion Use Case
- Demo: Embedding PDF in XML Export
- Closing and Call to Action
Overview
The video walks through the e-documents journey and the features added in 2025 release wave 1. Several are demoed: deleting incorrect e-documents, two-step processing with a preview before the purchase invoice is created, PDF extraction into the fact box, and embedding the invoice PDF in the XML export.
It also covers sending via a service and email in parallel, attaching multiple incoming documents at once, recreating accidentally deleted purchase documents, and exporting reminders and Finance charge information. Azure Document Intelligence, an OCR service embedded in Business Central, is in preview and will get a separate session. The presenters say some features arrive in April and others in May or June, and that more than 50% are based on feedback.
Key points
- Incorrect e-documents can be deleted, and the system can recognize and remove duplicates. You are asked to confirm before deleting because the document may not be retrievable, especially if it came from an external service.
- Two-step processing is controlled by a new Automatic Processing field on the E-Document Services page. Before this release, processing was always automatic. Setting the field to No lets users check the preview lines and extracted data (Related > View extracted data) before the purchase invoice is created with Reprocess document.
- On receipt, embedded PDFs are extracted from the payload and shown in the e-document fact box. On sending sales invoices, the invoice PDF is attached automatically.
- A new ‘Embed document PDF to export’ parameter on the Exporting tab of the e-document service embeds the invoice PDF in the exported XML. Receivers using Business Central see the printed version in the fact box.
- E-documents can be sent through a service connector and by email to specific persons at the same time. Multiple incoming documents can be attached at once.
- If a purchase invoice or credit memo linked to an e-document is deleted by accident, it can be recreated from the e-document.
- Azure Document Intelligence turns PDF invoices into machine-readable data, so PDF and electronic invoices share one user experience. It is in preview and work in progress.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delete incorrect E-documents | status not stated, demoed | 2:08 | |
| Send E-documents via service and email simultaneously | status not stated | 2:28 | |
| Multiple incoming document attachments | status not stated | 2:48 | |
| Automated PDF attachments in E-documents | status not stated, demoed | 3:08 | |
| Two-step processing of e-documents | status not stated, demoed | 3:28 | |
| Preview incoming e-documents | status not stated, demoed | 8:55 | |
| Extract PDF from e-documents | status not stated, demoed | 3:08 | |
| Export reminders and Finance chart | status not stated | 3:28 | |
| Fix unposted purchase documents | status not stated | 3:28 | |
| Azure Document Intelligence for PDF processing | preview | 4:09 | “this is still work in progress we have this in the preview uh but this is something what will come very soon” (5:50) |
| Embed PDF in e-document XML export | status not stated, demoed | 11:06 |
AL objects mentioned
As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.
- page “E Document Services” at 7:11
- page “E-documents list page” at 7:44
- page “Pagero connector” at 11:26
Not found in BC28-30: page “E Document Services”, page “E-documents list page”, page “Pagero connector”.
Quotes
- 0:26 “we start with this project just two years ago only two years ago and when say two years we didn’t deliver first release our”
- 1:27 “you can expect much more to come in next miners we are expecting new eents apis some new document types so we are Contin”
- 2:08 “more than 50% are based on your feedback so this is important every time when you have feedback tell us and we will try”
- 5:10 “this is OCR service our Asia OCR service now embedded in a busy Central”
- 5:50 “this is still work in progress we have this in the preview uh but this is something what will come very soon”
- 6:10 “this is the main message you will have the same user experience and all features already existing for electronic invoicing”
- 7:24 “with feedback from the community from our users and our partners there was a request to actually being able to review uh the document”
- 7:24 “page we now have this new field called automatic processing and as Alexander said before this release this was always uh true”
- 11:26 “here we can see we have a new parameter embed document PDF to export and I will actually enable this”
- 13:21 “in this release in this busy cental launch event we will have six different sessions related to electronic uh documents”
Disclaimers in the video
- 5:50 preview: this is still work in progress we have this in the preview
- 6:50 coming-later: some of these features will be available in April some of them will be available in May or June
Presenters (as heard): Alexander, Magnus.