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SharePoint Capability to do OCR in PDF Documents
Hi Rizwan Ansari ,
SharePoint extracts content from pdf, images as text, so you can find using OOB Search. Btw you can't customize this behavior, you need to use as it is.
if you need to customize your OCR experience, without using a 3P tools, you can think about a solution like this one I described in my blog, using SharePoint, flow and Azure Cognitive Services.
Cheers,
Federico
What I'm reading from this diagram, though, is that the actual OCR for PDFs can only be accomplished by running the item through Power Automate and processing either with Cognitive Services or some other OCR engine like Muhimbi or Aquaforest.
Am I correct? What about the run limitations in PowerAutomate? A user could potentially upload thousands of PDFs in a week, and I'd hate to hit the run limit...
Flow by Power Automate is a way to build personal flow, so your statement is correct 🙂
When designing the solution, you can consider using dedicated flows with a "per-flow" license or a Logic App on Azure.
In this example I wanted to highlight the power of the low code solution - no code, but for personal use, not enterprise.
Thanks for your comment 🙂
Cheers
Federico