OCR receipts from Google Drive

This workflow is ideal for:

• Small Business Owners: Who need to manage receipts and invoices efficiently.
• Accountants: Looking for a way to streamline data entry from documents.
• Freelancers: Who want to automate their expense tracking and invoice processing.
• Developers: Interested in integrating OCR capabilities into their applications or services.

This workflow addresses the challenge of manually processing receipts and invoices. By automating the extraction of data from documents stored in Google Drive, it saves time and reduces the risk of human error. Users can quickly convert various document formats into structured JSON data, making it easier to manage financial records.

1. Manual Trigger: The workflow begins when the user clicks the ‘Test workflow’ button or when a new file is added to a specific Google Drive folder.
2. Load Files: It retrieves files from the designated Google Drive folder.
3. Check Processed Files: The workflow checks which files have already been processed to avoid duplicates.
4. Download for OCR: It downloads the new files that have not been processed yet.
5. OCR Recognition: The downloaded files are sent to the OCR API to extract data.
6. Unserialize Response: The JSON response from the OCR API is parsed to make the data usable.
7. Save Results: Finally, the extracted data is saved into a Google Sheets document for easy access and further analysis.