Turn photos and files sent on Telegram into a searchable archive

Send a document or photo on Telegram and the system files it in Google Drive, reads the text, and makes it searchable.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Starts itAn outside serviceA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database OpsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
TelegramGoogle DriveGoogle VisionAirtable

The problem it solves

Important documents and receipts pile up scattered across your phone, email, and folders, and finding one later means digging through everything by hand. There's no quick way to search across files for the piece of text you actually need.

Who it fits

Individuals or teams who want a simple way to file and search receipts, documents, or research notes.

How it works

  1. You send a photo or document to your Telegram bot
  2. The file is uploaded to Google Drive automatically
  3. The system runs OCR to extract the text from images and PDFs
  4. The extracted text and file details are saved to Airtable
  5. You can search past documents anytime with a Telegram search command
What you get

Documents you can find with one search

Every photo or file you send gets filed to Drive and made fully searchable, so nothing you scan ever gets lost.

What you get

A searchable Airtable archive of your documents, each linked back to the original file in Google Drive.

What you need

A Telegram bot account, a Google account, and an Airtable account.

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.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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