Catalog and inventory teams live in Excel when they share data outside Odoo — with suppliers, buyers, marketplaces, and auditors. But the moment images matter, Odoo's native export breaks down. The standard list export dumps binary image_1920 / image_128 fields as enormous Base64 text strings (or omits them entirely), so a product sheet meant to show 300 thumbnails arrives as unreadable character soup. QWeb PDF reports embed images beautifully but aren't editable, and the built-in XLSX exporter (report_xlsx style output) writes plain text and numbers only. There is no supported path in Odoo core to get an actual picture sitting inside cell B2.

We build a dedicated export engine that closes that gap. It reads Odoo binary image fields through the ORM, decodes them server-side, resizes them to a configurable thumbnail dimension with Pillow, and streams them into a real .xlsx workbook using xlsxwriter's insert_image() so each thumbnail is anchored, scaled, and clipped to its row. The exporter is driven by a per-model export profile (stored in a config model with ir.model.access.csv rules) that lets you choose which fields become columns, their order, headers, number/date formatting, column widths, and row height to fit the image. It hangs off a Server Action / list-view "Export to Excel (with images)" menu entry, so managers select filtered records in any tree view — product.template, res.partner, or a custom model — and pull exactly the visible, filtered set. Under the hood it respects the same domain, record rules, and multi-company access the user already has, so nobody exports rows they can't see.

Because every business asks for something specific — a supplier price list with logo watermarks, a stock report grouped by category with cost columns hidden by role, a marketplace feed with SKU + barcode + main image — we deliver this as a scoped module, not a rigid off-the-shelf download. During the scoping call we confirm which models and fields you need, whether the export runs interactively or as a scheduled ir.cron job emailing a workbook, branded header/footer templates, and whether you're on Odoo 17.0, 18.0, or 19.0 (Community or Enterprise). We then build against your exact version and data, test it on a staging copy of your database, and hand over clean, documented source in your own git repository. Typical delivery is one working week from confirmed scope. Nothing is auto-downloaded and nothing is generic — it is engineered, installed, and supported by ECOSIRE for your instance.