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Azure Form Recognizer and Microsoft Flow to Search Scanned PDF Content in SharePoint Online

Here in this article, we will make the Scanned PDF and images contents to be searchable in SharePoint online using the new Azure Form Recognizer and Microsoft Flow.

Azure Form Recognizer and Microsoft Flow

Introduction

SharePoint is a huge platform and sometimes we may have to do some tricks to achieve our requirements. I was in a need to make my scanned PDF content to be searchable in the SharePoint online, which I have already achieved in a way, you can see that article here. Please consider this article as the second part of the above-mentioned article. Here in this article, we will make the Scanned PDF and images contents to be searchable in SharePoint online using the new Azure Form Recognizer and Microsoft Flow. Please keep reading.

Background

In our previous article, we learned how to make the Scanned PDFs to be searchable by its contents using the technology called OCR with a third-party tool AquaForest. AquaForest is a cool product and there are many things that you can do, but it is expensive, as I was using that just for the OCR purpose, it was not worth the money I spend. Because of that, I had to find a different option to satisfy my…