Document conversion
Excel and PDF trade documents are mapped into the customs import upload format.
Document automation
Customs HS Code Automation Tool
A WhatsApp bot that converts Excel and PDF trade documents into the national customs import format and resolves HS Codes through the national trade API.
XLSX / PDF
Excel / PDF → customs import format
Overview
Trade documents arrive as spreadsheets and PDFs. This tool turns them into the customs import upload format and resolves the correct HS Code through the national single-window trade API. The API token is obtained by a headless browser and refreshed automatically; scanned PDFs are read with Tesseract OCR. What was a manual re-typing exercise is now a WhatsApp conversation that produces an upload-ready file.
Outcome
XLSX + PDF
converted to import format
Tesseract
OCR for scanned PDFs
~1,500
lines of TypeScript in the service
How it works
HS Code resolution
Codes are resolved through the national trade API instead of being looked up by hand.
Automatic tokens
The API token is acquired by a headless browser and refreshed automatically, so long runs do not expire.
Outcome
No more re-typing
Documents are converted by the tool rather than retyped into the customs format.
Codes resolved automatically
HS Codes come from the national trade API, cutting the manual look-up step.
Refined through a v2 rewrite
A Python FastAPI variant now powers a cleaner second-generation interface.
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