Inside Odoo env:: res = env["pdf.helper"].pdf_get_xml_files(pdf_filecontent) new_pdf_filecontent = env["pdf.helper"].pdf_embed_xml(pdf_filecontent, filename, xml) Outside Odoo env:: from odoo.addons.pdf_helper.utils import PDFParser [...] res = PDFParser(pdf_filecontent).get_xml_files()