diff --git a/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/XRechnungImporter.java b/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/XRechnungImporter.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0855b919
--- /dev/null
+++ b/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/XRechnungImporter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package org.mustangproject.ZUGFeRD;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+public class XRechnungImporter extends ZUGFeRDImporter {
+
+    public XRechnungImporter(byte[] rawXml) {
+	super();
+
+	try {
+	    setRawXML(rawXml);
+	    containsMeta = true;
+	} catch (final IOException e) {
+	    Logger.getLogger(ZUGFeRDImporter.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, e);
+	    throw new ZUGFeRDExportException(e);
+	}
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDImporter.java b/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDImporter.java
index ba496bfe..abcaace2 100644
--- a/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDImporter.java
+++ b/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDImporter.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public class ZUGFeRDImporter {
 	/**
 	 * if metadata has been found
 	 */
-	private boolean containsMeta = false;
+	protected boolean containsMeta = false;
 	/**
 	 * map filenames of additional XML files to their contents
 	 */
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ public class ZUGFeRDImporter {
 	private Document document;
 
 
+	protected ZUGFeRDImporter() {
+	    //constructor for extending classes
+	}
+	
 	public ZUGFeRDImporter(String pdfFilename) {
 		try (InputStream bis = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get(pdfFilename), StandardOpenOption.READ)) {
 			extractLowLevel(bis);