Document automation

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Automated processing of documents and attachments

ThinkAutomation is a workflow automation solution that simplifies document automation by processing, creating, extracting, and managing data from documents without manual effort. Whether handling PDFs, Word and Excel files, scanned images, or email attachments, ThinkAutomation can automatically extract key information, classify content, convert formats, and integrate data into your business systems. Workflows can be set up to parse incoming documents, validate information, store records in databases, trigger approvals, or generate automated responses.

Document automation
Document processing with AI

Document automation enhanced with AI

AI enhances document automation by extracting, classifying, and processing data from scanned files, documents, and unstructured text. It can identify key details, automate decisions, summarize content, translate text, and redact sensitive information. With AI-powered workflows, businesses can reduce manual tasks, improve accuracy, and streamline document handling.

Document automation workflow actions

tick Create formatted documents and save as PDF, Word and other formats. Create or update Excel spreadsheets and save as PDF, CSV and other formats. Attach documents to outgoing emails.
tick Convert PDF, Word, Excel, Richtext, HTML and images to text, PDF, Word, Images & HTML.
tick Automate printing of documents and incoming attachments.
tick Automate text extraction from documents and incoming attachments.
tick Save documents and attachments to local file storage, FTP or cloud upload.
tick Use AI to extract data from unstructured text, or to classify, summarize, anonymize or translate document text.
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Automate invoice generation

Document management & distribution

ThinkAutomation streamlines document processing by handling local files, cloud storage documents and email attachments. It converts PDFs, Word, Excel, OpenDoc, and HTML files into plain text for data extraction, applies OCR to extract text from images, and supports format conversion (e.g., Word to PDF, Image to PDF). For example, a web form submission can trigger an automation that retrieves product pricing from a database, generates a formatted quotation in Excel, converts it to a PDF, emails it to the customer, and uploads it to cloud storage for backup or sharing.

Explore document automation possibilities

Whether you have a few core document processing needs or want to integrate document automation into a larger workflow, ThinkAutomation adapts to your requirements. With flexible, rule-based processing, you define the conditions - 'if this, then that' - and ThinkAutomation executes them seamlessly. For example:

If And Then
If the inbound email contains an attachment. If the sender email matches a customer CRM record. Upload the attachment to the customer's folder on OneDrive.
If the attachment contains the word 'CV', 'Resume' or 'Curriculum Vitae'. The attachment is a PDF document. Extract the candidate text data, parse it, save to a database and send a confirmation email.
If a new quote PDF document is found on a folder on your system. The extracted email address is not blank. Send an email to the customer with the quote attached and schedule an automated follow-up email in 7 days time.

Frequently Asked Questions

ThinkAutomation can extract text from documents and images without using external services. Specific data can then be extracted from the text to update your databases etc. You can also use AI to further process the text, such as extracting business data from unstructured text, analyzing text for sentiment, text classification, anonymization, summarization etc.

Yes, ThinkAutomation can extract text from images using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It has fast OCR built-in (using Tesseract) and does not need to use an external service. You can also use the built-in Ask-AI action to use AI to extract key data from images or unstructured text.

Yes, ThinkAutomation can extract text from PDF files and incoming attachments. PDF form data can also be extracted. Once text is extracted you can further process the text to save to a database or CRM and perform other automated actions.

Yes, ThinkAutomation's Document Processing is designed to process a wide range of document formats, including PDFs, Word documents, OpenDoc, HTML, RichText, scanned images, and more. It ensures consistent data extraction regardless of the document source.

Absolutely.ThinkAutomation runs on-premises, or on a cloud virtual machine under your control. No documents or data are stored or processed externally.

Yes, ThinkAutomation is designed for seamless integration with a variety of business systems, ensuring smooth data flow and enhanced operational efficiency.

ThinkAutomation's Document Processing platform is equipped to process documents in multiple languages, ensuring consistent data extraction and understanding across diverse content. Extracted text can be translated to any other language.

ThinkAutomation's Document Processing solution is versatile and can benefit a wide range of industries, including finance, healthcare, legal, retail, and more. Any industry that deals with document processing can leverage the platform for enhanced efficiency.

ThinkAutomation ensures efficient document storage with easy retrieval options. Processed data can be stored in structured formats. Data extracted from documents can be saved to a database. Document files can be saved to local or cloud storage.

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