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Copper Contributor

Oct 12, 2019

SharePoint Capability to do OCR in PDF Documents

Hi. We have a requirement where all documents (PDF, Word, etc) with embedded images that are uploaded to SharePoint must be searchable. The text in the images must be searchable. I did find ...

OCR

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Jason E. Heiser

Iron Contributor

Oct 16, 2020

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...

FedericoPorceddu82

MVP

Nov 09, 2020

Hi Jason E. Heiser

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