Automatically extract images from documents uploaded to Drive

Pulls every image out of a document you upload to Google Drive and saves them to a folder for you.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each image found in the document.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
API & Webhook IntegrationFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveVLM Run

The problem it solves

When someone uploads a scanned report, receipt, or PDF, pulling out the individual images inside it means opening the file and saving each picture by hand. That is slow, easy to skip, and just as easy to get wrong on multi-page documents.

Who it fits

Teams that regularly process scanned documents, receipts, or reports and need the images inside them saved separately.

How it works

  1. A new file uploaded to a watched Google Drive folder starts the process
  2. The file is downloaded and sent to an AI document reader
  3. The AI finds every image inside the document and returns links to them
  4. Each image is downloaded and saved to your chosen Google Drive folder
What you get

Images pulled out of every document automatically

Every image inside a document you upload to Drive gets pulled out and saved to its own folder, ready whenever you need it.

What you get

The individual images from an uploaded document, saved as separate files in Google Drive.

What you need

A Google Drive account and a VLM Run API subscription.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

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