How to extract field info from PDF documents and populate the SharePoint Online List

[Marie1]

Good day all!

I have a request to extract some relevant data from PDF version of a form (from SiteDocs) and be able to populate the SharePoint Online list. At first, my thinking was to export the PDF to Word and use a Word Template that has the relevant fields identified. Then probably use Flow to do that copying step to SharePoint Online List.

Currently,what I know is that SiteDocs does not have an API to connect to SharePoint unless someone knows how.

Thanks!

[Pstork1]

That is the kind of task that AI Builder was designed for.  Take a look at the following article

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/create-form-processing-model

[Marie1]

Sweet! I'll give this a try on the weekend (if I have access to AI Builder) and report back.

[Jay-Encodian]

@Marie1 

If you don't have access to AI Builder, the Encodian connector provides a zonal extraction action, check out the blog post on the community blog - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community-Blog/Extract-data-from-documents-with-M...

HTH Jay