Start document Extraction

RE: Start document Extraction

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 04 May 2023 15:21:00 GMT

Doc Extraction is intended specifically for doing AI-assisted extraction of information from semi-structured PDF files (like invoices, etc), not for reading plain data from an Excel. For that you should probably just use "readExcelSheetPaging()" from the Excel Tools plug-in.

RE: Start document Extraction

somanathd7926 — Thu, 04 May 2023 15:19:27 GMT

Here I need to extract the fields from the given file using the'' Create a Doc Extraction Process ". But the difficulty faced is that the input file is Excel File.

Thus I tried " Import CSV to Database ". But it displays an error like

RE: Start document Extraction

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 04 May 2023 15:08:23 GMT

[quote userid="242115" url="~/discussions/f/appian-community-edition/28579/start-document-extraction"]start the process model without the Start Doc Extraction[/quote]

What process model are you referring to? What does it contain? To be clear, it's definitely not a requirement to have the Start Doc Extraction node in any particular process model, but I assume I'm not quite understanding what you're trying to ask here.

Maybe you meant the inverse of the way you phrased it (i.e. "start doc extraction without needing a process model") -- to which I believe, based on the documentation, the answer is "no".

[quote userid="242115" url="~/discussions/f/appian-community-edition/28579/start-document-extraction"]Is there any way I can pass the Excel file as input to Start Doc Extraction [/quote]

As far as I know this service is intended to be used mainly (or only) for structured PDF files. What is it that you hope to accomplish with an Excel file?