Your browser is more powerful than you think: Extract Text From PDF in Microsoft Edge For Free

today i want to show you how you can extract data from a pdf document automatically using the magic of ai and when i say that we're going to use ai your first thought might be wow this is going to be incredibly complicated but it actually turns out it's very simple we are going to build and train our very own ai model simply by pointing and clicking our mouse here at the kevin cookie company we receive all of our cookie orders as pdf attachments in email go figure we have lots of antiquated processes here my manager wants me to manually copy and paste the data from the pdf into a separate system doesn't my manager know that i have youtube videos to pull together instead we are going to use something called microsoft ai builder and we're going to train the computer to do all this heavy lifting for us there are two caveats before we jump in first you'll need a work or school microsoft account and second your organization needs an ai builder license i've included more information about this down below in the description if you just want to follow along anyone can sign up for a free 30-day trial to set this up head to the website office.com and then click on sign in once you finish signing in in the bottom left hand corner click on the icon that says all apps on the all apps page click on the power automate icon with power automate you can automate all types of different business processes and if you scroll down just a little bit on the page you'll see some example templates that showcase what's possible if this is your first time ever using power automate i've included an introductory video right up above and down below in the description that'll show you all of the fundamentals over on the left hand side let's select ai builder and within the sub menu select build on the next page we can see all of the different ways that we can leverage ai to make our work easier here for example you can use ai to understand text and whether it's negative or positive you can use it to categorize feedback to predict outcomes you can even use ai to identify objects within an image that's pretty slick now i have orders that i need to start processing so let's click back into documents and down at the bottom let's select form processing model next let's click on use custom model and then click on get started next i need to choose what information i want to extract from my order form pdf here i'll click on add i can extract all types of information i can extract fields tables of information tables that span multiple pages and even check boxes when i look at my order form first i want to pull the order number then the customer name and i'll work my way through the entire form so first i'll type in order number and then click on ok and once again i'll go through the rest of the form now that i've entered all the different fields i'll click on next next we need to create a collection and a collection is simply a group of documents that share a similar layout with the...