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CMR consignment notes for international road haulage under the CMR Convention: CMR number, sender, consignee, carrier, place and date of loading, place of delivery, goods, gross weight and vehicle registration. Delivery must not be dated before loading.
At a glance
| Region | Europe |
| Industry | Logistics & trade |
| Document types | CMR consignment note |
| Workflow | Scan → OCR, separation & classification → Classification → Extraction & validation → Index / Validate → PDF generation & export |
| Straight-through processing | Yes — documents that pass every check skip Index / Validate |
| Separation | each file, keywords at the top of a page |
| Output | searchable PDF with XML, JSON data |
| Dates read as | dd.MM.yyyy, d.M.yyyy, dd/MM/yyyy |
Use this template
- Go to Batch Setups and choose New Batch Setup.
- Filter by Europe or search for "CMR consignment notes (Europe)", select it and choose Next.
- Name the Batch Setup, choose the export folder and create it.
- Try it with a few of your own documents on the Test tab, adjust fields and rules, then publish it — see Test a Batch Setup and Versions and publishing.
Batch fields
Entered once per batch, for example on the Scan screen.
| Field | Type | Required | Found by | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batch reference | Text | entered by the operator |
Document types and fields
CMR consignment note
Recognised by words such as "CMR", "consignment note", "lettre de voiture", "Frachtbrief", "carrier".
| Field | Type | Required | Found by | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMR number | Text | Yes | pattern in the text | |
| Sender (box 1) | Text | Yes | label "Sender", "Expéditeur", "Absender" | |
| Consignee (box 2) | Text | Yes | label "Consignee", "Destinataire", "Empfänger" | |
| Carrier (box 16) | Text | label "Carrier", "Transporteur", "Frachtführer" | ||
| Place of loading | Text | label "Place and date of taking over the goods", "Place of loading", "Lieu de chargement" | ||
| Loading date | Date | Yes | label "Date of loading", "Loading date", "Date" | Not in the future |
| Place of delivery | Text | label "Place of delivery", "Lieu de livraison", "Auslieferungsort" | ||
| Delivery date | Date | label "Goods received", "Date of delivery", "Delivered" | ||
| Gross weight (kg) | Number | label "Gross weight", "Poids brut", "Bruttogewicht" | 0–60000 | |
| Vehicle registration | Text | label "Vehicle", "Registration", "Kennzeichen" |
Validation rules
- Delivery not before loading
See Validation rules to change them or add your own.
Adapt it to your documents
- Add or rename fields and change how they are found: Fields and data extraction, Finders and zones.
- Improve document type recognition: Document classes and classification, Samples and classifier training.
- Send the documents and data to your systems — folders and servers, SharePoint, Google Drive and other cloud drives, S3, document management (FileNet, Alfresco, M-Files, DocuWare), SAP, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, Xero, QuickBooks, SQL, REST or a C# script: Output and export, Cloud and business-system destinations.
- Arrange the data entry screen: Screen designer.